The Book Of Principle:On The Nature Of Confucian Cases In Ming Dynasty

The Records of Ming Scholars written by Huang Zongxi has attracted the attention of scholars since its appearance and been regarded as a model of academic history.Officers of The Si Ku Quan Shu make it a biographies of history according to biographies of Confucians belonging to different schools of thought and the evolution of their schools of thought contained in The Records of Ming Scholars.So far,in twentieth Century,Liang Qichao praises the Records of Ming Scholars has created the history because "China has a perfect academic History".Since then,define the Records of Ming Scholars by academic History has almost become a finalized case.However,after analyzing the Records of Ming Scholars carefully,it appears that the characterization of the history of Confucianism or academic history seems to have lost its appearance.In fact,the Records of Ming Scholars elaborates construction of Confucianism and Principleism with its magnificent academic vision and beyond the academic capacity of the portal.On the basis of certain organizational principles,it reconstructs the evolution and integration of Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty into a complete and rigorous organic whole.Huang Zongxi took the inner logic of the academic historical view of "A book with disparity" as the main axis of Confucianism to dominate the various schools and make it a unified development system with a wide variety of forms and a unified mainline.In fact,the Records of Ming Scholars is not only an academic history of the Ming Dynasty,but also a book of Principle with the aim of "Dao".