Based On The Communication Perspective-the Decline Of Mohist And Its Modern Inheritance

In Chinese history, the Mohist occupies a very important position, together withConfucian known as the “Renowned school ". The Mohist, however, education andexperience the glory of the Warring States Period, Qin Dynasty began to decline. For thedecline of Mohist, academia has carried out a detailed analysis from the perspective of history,culture and sociology. This article will look for other ways, based on the Communicationperspective to try to analysis Mohist decline. In order to explained the inadequacies of Mohistspread. And explore the Mohist surviving and Communication in modern society.This article Based on the communication, on the pioneer Harold’s "5w" theory as the basicresearch framework, this article analyses five basic elements of Mohist communicationprocess in detail. Indicate that The Mohist lack of communication subject, clustering,hierarchical caused Mohist lack of a stable and innovative body; The upper ruling class senseof crisis and the practical ability of the bottom of the public due to low Mohist for Audiencebased weak; Mohist theory own shortcomings and fantasy makes the Mohist spread ofdifficult to really be accepted and implemented; The Mohist heavy oral not re-writings anddogmatic mode of transmission should not be Mohist spread; The orality limitations causedby the Mohist ideological misreading of misunderstanding, the herd mentality of the peopleand secondary transmission failure is a direct result of the poor of the Mohist disseminationof results of. It is spread above the many problems there, and gradually the Mohist learn tothe edge of extinction.Of course, the Mohist decline does not mean this disappeared Mohist. In modern times,with the emergence of the scientific and democratic ethos, Mohist attention has been paid,gradually developed into Modern Mohist renaissance. Modern Mohist the rise anddevelopment has gone through four stages: First, in Qianjia; Second, in the Opium War to theWesternization Movement; Third, in the Reform Movement to Revolution; Fourth, before andafter the May Fourth Movement.As an important part of Chinese culture, the Mohist doctrine today there is stilltheoretical value and practical significance. For instance, Thrifty thought conducive to thesustainable development of society, Universal love thought to contribute to social stability and unity, Selecting and appointing talent concept is conducive to the implementation of thesocial system, and so on. In the contemporary media environment, particularly in the contextof the rapid development of the new media, Mohist can make use of the properties of thebreadth of the media and the general public to expand the Mohist spread of subject andaudience. With the diversity of media manifestations Mohist dissemination of content andmeans to enrich. And with new media interactivity to enhance Mohist dissemination of results.Thus, The Mohist positive meaning and value in contemporary be correct carry forward.