Mohist Thought's Circulation In The Middle And Later Period Of The Ming Dynasty

In the Sping and Autumn and Warring State Period, Confucianism and Mohist are all called famous schools of thought.Hanfeizi said, famous schools of thought is Confucianism and Mohist.The representative of Confucianism is Confucius and the representative of Mohist is Mozi.The controversy beween Confucianism and Mohist opened the prelude of letting a hundred schools of thought contend in Warring State Period.In the western Han period, Emperor Wu useing the claim of banning the contention of a hundred schools of thoughts and honouring Confucianism alone which is put forward by Dongzhongshu, made Confucianism occupy a dominant position. Mohist as a school disapprared from Chinese history. Mohist school thought which is enrooted in Chinese traditional culture and as a spokeman of civilian is not disapprared but criticized and inherited by Confucianism and other schools.for example, the influence of Mohist thought on buddhism and taoism, the controversy beween Confucianism and Mohist opened by Hanyu, the inheritance and development on Mohist thought of Wangyangming,Taizhou school and practical school of Ming and Qing dynasty.So far, According to the materials that were grasped in person,there are many scholars who study on Mozi.there are about 433 special books and 2000 periodicals from 1900. more over, there are about 70 special books and 12 periodicals of overseas such as Japan.but there are nearly no paper touch upon the inheritance and development on Mohist thought in the middle and later Period of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore,with the social environment in the middle and later Period of the Ming Dynasty as starting point, this paper try to build a Thinking Thread on Mohist thought in the middle and later Period of the Ming Dynasty. In the middle and later Period of the Ming Dynasty, with the Commodity Economy having a quick development, the society form a atmosphere that everybody talk about business and pursue personal interests.Mozi,who was born of Handicraftsman , advocate World Salvation and try to build a new order base on equality and competition. His claim is actually related to a kind of equal and fair scoiety atmosphere which is need by Commodity Economy in Ming dynasty.It is helpful to Mohist thought's circulation and development.With the high development of Commodity Economy, commodity consciousness is more and more reinforced ,so, the photoxylography is very prosperous.According to WuQiuBeiZhaiMoZiJiCheng wrriten by YanLingfeng, in Ming dynasty,there are 28 works studied on Mozi and it is beneficial to Mohist thought's circulation and development. .With the high development of Commodity Economy,the individual producers become active ecomomic subject.They urgently want to found a thought which represent the class interests. .With the high development of citizen class, it provide a powerful class basis to make Mohist thought renaissance.Starting with the inheritance and development on Mohist thought about Rightousness Adventage View ,Economical ideology, View of equality, Selfless spirit and Practical learning of scholars in the Middle and Later Periodof the Ming Dynasty, The text also go into particulars of TaiZhou school which is similar to Mohist school in latter half part.As the same as Mohist school, TaiZhou school aslo advocate the World Salvation and practice actively.therefore, their claim is spread widely by civilian class. TaiZhou school's civilian consciousness and equality ideology,opened the door from Mediaeval Times to Modern Times and colored Chinese history.