An Investgation Of Five Classics On The Inner World Of Pre-Chin Ancestors

The inner world of our nation was formed by our ancestors during the process of taking on the challenge of the nature and society in a fairly long period gradually. As the classics of our nation, the Five Classics is still spread by people in the nowadays. And in a fairly long period, they occupied the leading position of society. The Five Classics inherited and developed as classics in compatriots' faith generation by generation because it has a representative character of the inner world. It can reflect our ancestors'inspiration on both the world outside and the inner spirits of themselves.The Five Classics have different roles: The Rites can control people; Collection of Ancient Texts can record political affairs; The Book of Songs can express people's feelings; The Book of Changes can seek the law; The Spring and Autumn Annals is used to understand the ancient and modern throughly. A lot of thoughts and concepts of value of people nowadays come from this .The research on our ancestors'inner world reflected by the Five Classics. is also a process of exhumation on people's inner world today.During the process of cognition on the world, people of Pre-Chin experienced a process from sensibility to reasonableness. It is also a process from knowing a thing's phenomenon to knowing the nature of a series of things. They had the intuitive recognization at first. Then they gave an analogise and association on the things of the same kind. Our ancestors gained experiences by this kind of summary and finally they founded a complete cognition system. They negated the wrong knowledge, which had been gained in the past, and established new orders. This kind of process that is emboided in the Five Classics is realistic and objective. It is also full of imagination and embodies a qualitative change of the way of recognizing the world.People of Pre-Chin formed a set of identification to value the world which was admitted by each other gradually. The Five Classics showed that the morality is the most important thing. It sets up a criterion on how to judge things that benifits should follow justice. At the same time, collective benefit is souvereign. Individuals must obey group unconditionally. Of course, the inner world reflected by the Pre-Chin ancestors does not want our ancestors to be broken away from the nature. It established an organic and harmonious union. On the problem of life and death, the Five Classics showed people an abutals of laying down their lives for a just cause by an explanation on the value of life.Finally, the Five Classics on life attitude also embodied Pre-Chin people's implicit and indirect attitude towards life, and also their being content with what they are. This is the result of the development of traditional agriculture. It is based on the sense of society in their daily lives. At the same time, our ancestors were not negative to get along with nature and society. They also showed their perseverance when they met problems. In the life affairs that everything was changing so fast, they also adapted themselves to circumstances. They would be organic and unified with the society. They realized the difficulties in their lives and treated all problems in life with a positive attitude.When our ancestors were changing the nature, they were also reforming themselves. Their inner world reflected by the Five Classics, also embodied a close combination between reality and idealization. Epistemology, view of value and attitudes towards life formed by this kind of inner world are still existed today. Though it meets changes and setbacks, it is still the dominant part of compatriots' inner world today. And it will always guide the inner world of future generations.