Yeshi's Theory On The Rise And Fall Of History

The theory on the rise and fall of history is the summary of the thought of what caused the prosperity and decline in the country.Past experience,if not forgotten,will be a guide for the future.When the kingdom is faced with domestic trouble and foreign invasion,people especially expect to find a way to solve the plight of the country from the past experience and lessons.When Southern Song were faced with internal and external troubles,Yeshi,the representative of Eastern Zhejiang Practical School put forward his own views about the rise and fall of a nation.The first part is the foreword.In this part,I review and analyze the predecessors' studies on Yeshi 's thought.The second part is his idea about emperor.In Yeshi's opinion,it is not only the personal cultivation and moral character of an emperor,but also the standard and scale of his capacity of governing his country.He opposed the emperor who only use his power to govern the country.Emperor should run a country through morality,at the same time stress the the actual morality.The third part is his idea about talents.Ye thought that the emperor should treat talent with politeness.Aiming at the weakness of talents selecting system in Southern Song,Ye hoped that the emperor would establish a reasonable system for talents selecting and training.At the same time,the emperor should give full of trust,decentralize authority for minister.The forth part is YeShi's idea about people.The number of people and the amount of wealth tell the prosperity or decline of a nation.The emperor should governing his people by maintaining them,enriching them and reducing taxes on them.The fifth party is his idea about circumstances.which means the law of history development.The emperor should master it to avoid problems on administration.Yeshi stressed that,on the base of mastering the current situations,emperor should use power to go with the stream of history development.It's his expectation that the emperor could adjust his policies by mastering the current situations.The last party is the characteristic of the theory on the rise and fall of history YeShi's.His theory is tool has obvious practical achievement,have clear practical sex.In view of the development of the rise and fall of history.Yeshi's theory on the rise and fall of history focus on the emperor.The emperor should run a country through morality,politeness,decentralization and so on.Finally,he can governing the country through adjusting the polic...