The Research On Luo Zenan’s Neo Confucian Thought

In the late Qing dynasty, the crisis was more and more serious, so thelong-standing abuse had become deeply. In the economic field, the social economydeclined gradually, and the feudal natural economy suffered further concussion, so itfaced with the trend of disintegration; In the military field, arms was lax and thecombat effectiveness of the army was low; And there was a scene of conformism andlifelessness in the ideological field.With the invasion of western powers, the rise ofthe Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement, the uprising of Northwest twist army, andthe rebellion of ethnic hui people, the national contradictions and class contradictionsproblems highlighted further. It was in these backgrounds, in order to serve thecountry, a scholar named Luo Zenan, gave up literature for a military career and threwhimself into the battle.What’s more, he led his disciples training for regiment yongand advocated for forming Xiang army. Then, they made battles throughout severalprovinces to put down the Taiping uprising.Luo Zenan not only made the combination of the traditional Confucian ethicsand the Confucianism into military operations, but also excavated his talent ofinnovative applications on reality deeply, and he made these practices in the politicaleconomy,military activities, and the culture education. The Xiang army established byLuo Zenan and his followers, underwent more than two hundred large or small wars,and it had few losses, so it could be called the Xiang specialist. In addition, LuoZenan was an important representative for the Confucianism in the late Qing dynastyand the scholars in Huxiang region,who held the thought of innovative applicationson reality. Before joining the army,Luo Zenan spent so much time in school inteaching students, so he not only cultivated a large number of disciples, but also wrotethe books and studied the Neo-Confucianism by heart. Luo Zenan’s Confucianismrevered ideas and explored the subtleness of the Confucianism in Song dynasty, so hecould get the profound meaning of it. And his Confucianism was deeply influenced bythe HuXiang culture based on the Neo-Confucianism, so it revealed many assertionson the ideas of innovative applications on reality. These assertions of politic, socialeconomy, thought of academy had be achieved in the Luo Zenan and his followers’practices.Besides, these assertions played an important role in promoting thetransformation of academic culture in late Qing dynasy, in further enriching andspreading the culture of innovative applications on reality in HuXiang region, and inthe Tongzhi Restoration occurred in later.