| Yang Cihu was an important thinker on the ideological history in the Southern Song Dynasty. especially in the history of school of mind, even he was also considered to be "Taishan-Qiaoyue"like figure by the people of his time. This evaluation was strongly different from the critical attitude of the future generations. In this paper, on the base of reading all the books left by Cihu and some relevant research data, the author try to find a new way to interpret Yang Cihu’s philosophy. This paper argues that there does exist a dynamic structure could be called Yi-Heart-Consciousness in Cihu’s thought. Yang’s views such as "can not afford to the rise of ideas" and "the flowing of mind leads to the Holy" and other theoretical problems could be illustrated by this structure.Yang Cihu was born in a Confucian family, his father Yang Tingxian usually taught him with Confucianism, and his father’s ideas "Heart in its essence is pure and bright" and’"thousands of things are from the same origin" have gave a profound impact on Cihu’s thinking. In the previous studies, because of the teacher and student relationship between Yang Cihu and Lu Xiangshan. Yang Cihu’s philosophy was also be classified to the school of mind on the base of Heart. In fact. Cihu was not simply inherited the thought of Mencius and Lu Jiuyuan in the history of school of mind. He criticized Mencius’s ideas except for the view that human nature is good. As for the question what is the heart’s original essence, Lu Xiangshan’s function is to confirm rather than enlighten in the development of Cihu’s thought. In addition, on the nature state of heart and its functional interpretation. Cihu is far better than his teacher Lu Xiangshan. According to analysis, we believe that it is not able to be complete and clear to interpret the overall outlook of Cihu’s thought on the position of school of mind. In Cihu’s word of system, he almost does not separately discuss the heart concept, but expound it together with the concept Yi and Consciousness.In summary, there is a dynamic structure called Yi-Heart-Consciousness in Cihu’s thought, in this structure, Cihu discusses heart’s characteristics such as clearness brightness and boundlessness but without substance; what the world in terms of fundamental place, that is, there is a whole can be regarded as Yi; the enlightenment of Yi could be considered to be the Consciousness. The integrity of Yi will show us all aspects of its significance after our heart could come to Yi in depth and get its consciousness. This is the outline of the content of the dynamic structure so called Yi-Heart-Consciousness in Cihu’s thought.After reading all the writings left by Yang Cihu. we also found that basiclly he hold negative attitude towards Buddhism and Zen, while he was more familiar with Taoism and Taoist specifications. Cihu’s thought was once submerged in the spread course in later generations. In the Ming Dynasty, along with the rise of Yangming school, Cihu’s thought has received a re-interpreted because Yangming scholars need to interpret Yangming’s thought by explaining Cihu’s idea. And because of this chance Cihu’s thought come back to the stage of Chinese ideological history. For most importantly, the link between Cihu’s thought and Yangming school should be regarded as another serious issue in Chinese ideolosical historv. |
