Confucius Mind-nature Psychology Research

To approch Confucius mind-nature psychology from the view of Chinese ancient life philosophy can clarify and master the development of Confucius mind-nature psychology, can recognize the regulations and features of Confucius mind-nature psychology, and can exactly interprete the original meaning of Confucius mind-nature theory. Thus the research can better guide modern chinese's mental life,solve their phychological problem and provide resources for development and reformation of indigenous psychology in china.Since the beginnning of the 1920s, Liang Suming began to research Confucius mind-nature drawing on Bergson's life-philosophy theory. After that, researches on Chinese life-philosophy keeps coming out. Among those, the life-philosophy viewpoint in the classic ancient works like the Book of Changes, Huai Nan Zi, and the Medical Classic of the Yellow Emperor are the most studied. Yet no related literature has been found on the birth, formation and development of Confucius mind-nature theory from the view of Chinese ancient life philosophy.In Chinese ancient life philosophy, the life phenomenon is interpreted in terms of the movement of yin and yang. The co-existing yin and yang are the two different life roots since the life occurs: stillness and movement. The periods of birth, growth, maturity, oldness and death in life are the inevitable results of incessant movement of yin and yang. The five periods shows the different forms of movements of yin and yang. The five forms co-exist and are just in defferent places in different life periods. The five forms of movements of yin and yang are known as Quinaries. Quinaries describes the so-sustainable and co-restrictive relations within the living body and decides the manner and developing direction of life existance.There are two discoveries in the research of the formation and development of Confucius mind-nature psychology from the view of Chinese ancient life philosophy.Confucius mind-nature theory runs through the Chinese ancient life philosophy. The Confucius description of mind-nature always has the life analogy.