Study Of Zeng Gong Social Control System

The stability of society has an important relationship with the rulers' social control thoughts and policies.The effective implementation of social control is based on the a reasonable kind of social control thinking,which is to support the making and practice of its social control means.Zeng Gong is both a famous writer of the Northern Song Dynasty and a thinker with his own political views.Zeng Gong's social control thought is based on his own thought of Confucian orthodoxy that influences.And he has always adhered to the doctrine of the mean,committed to obtaining knowledge by investigation of things,the sincerity,mind,cultivate one's morality,to keep a family in order and manage state affair self-cultivation.Zeng Gong's literary thought is also based on the text within the holy king of the Dao,to achieve the purpose of governance and settle the world.Zeng Gong social control thought is based on the Confucian human nature as the starting point,the law of heaven as the premise of the heart of the theory of the main line,the Confucian benevolence etiquette and other moral norms as the content,purifying the human nature of the good for the saint of the territory for the purpose.Based on this thought,he strongly advocates to carry out the propaganda and practice of inner civilization,with the cultivation of physical and mental as a way to become a saint,to form a step that everyone can accomplish as a saint,so that the people take the initiative to pursue the feudal moral spirit of ethical beliefs,and satisfied with the pursuiting peace of mind in the inner self-holy,from the inside out,the effective social control is achieved.Zeng Gong's external social control thinking of the starting point is based on the people,to educate as a tool,referencing to the “three generations”flourishing king of the government,combining with the characteristics of the Northern Song Dynasty make outside the holy way be the specific practice.Zeng Gong also advocated to strengthen the political,economic and rural management system of the Northern Song Dynasty,through the implementation of imitation of the "three generations" of retro reform to make the government administration effective,to achieve the inner grassroots social organization of the internal cohesion,finally,the effective external social control is realized.