Geographical Confucianism And College Development

The Confucianism in Guangdong province grew up at the period of Ming Dynasty. Chen Bai-sha was the first famous man in Guangdong who raised the highest "Dao". He gave lectures in the county of Jiangmen and organized a spirit's union with his 106 students. Zhan Ruo-shui is the main disciple of Chen Bai-sha. Zhan Ruo-shui and his 4000 students whom was named the Guang-school which was the same famous as the Zhe-school of Wang Shou-ren. Zhan Ruo-shui set up Shuyuan and sacrificed Chen Bai-sha in the mountain of West-qiao and other places who preached the Chen Bai-sha's school of mind. At the same time, other scholars such as Fang Xian-fu, Huo-tao, and Xue-kan gathered their students under trees of some mountains,whom preached the Heart-mind theory and cultivated their morality. All the above scholars in Guangdong started the Heart-mind theory movement in the Shuyuan of Guangdong. In the Heart-mind theory movement, the native "Dao" of Guangdong expressed their colorful characters which was different to the national ideology, and took the place of "Dao" which came from other places in the Shuyuan. It is evident that the Shuyuan of Guangdong had their unique characters of the local cultures in the Heart-mind theory movement which presented the cultures' complexity of the mutual impact between the district and the nation, districts and districts.It has great changes of the meaning and the way of cultivating themselves "Dao" from Chen Bai-sha's "cultivate one's clue of the heart in the whisht" to Zhan Ruo-shui's "man could experience and understand the Heavenly Principle everywhere". Chen Bai-sha considered that the aim of the "Dao" is itself, and the "Dao" could't be described by human's language. We could't get the "Dao" by the reading of classics, but by the feel of our heart with the help of the "language" of the surroundings and poetries which can solve the intensity between the language and the existence. In these ways ,Chen Bai-sha finished his task of teaching the "Dao" which could't be described by the language. Zhan Ruo-shui put the natural and free Chen Bai-sha's school of mind into the regulations of the Shuyuan which he resumed the necessity of the reading of classics. At the same time, Zhan Ruo-shui held the education idea that students must unite the bright heart and reading for the imperial examinations. The changes between the Chen Bai-sha and Zhan Ruo-shui are the Educational Contradictions,which needs us to think deeply.