A Study On The Academic Thought Of Pang Pu

Pang Pu(1928-2015),a famous contemporary master of Confucianism in China.He has obtained abundant findings in history of Chinese intellectual history,history of Chinese philosophy,history of Confucianism,bamboo slip studies,philology and even history of astronomy among other fields.Among which the most influential efforts to academia are his study in Confucianism.He creatively proposed the view of “one divided into three” and constructed a philosophical system of “one divided into three”,namely “spiritual realm reached is the original state of mind”,dissecting and driving the development of ancient Chinese dialectical thinking;he was the first to make the “strong voice of the times” of attaching importance to the study of cultural history,upheld the national character and epochal character of culture,analysised of the cultural tradition and traditional culture,and was a well-deserved leader in the “cultural craze”;besides,he was the first to propose that the silk manuscript The Five Elements is a work of Simeng School,traced back to and filled in the gap about Confucianism-Mencius in academic and intellectual theories,helped unfold the age-old mystery of “the Five Elements of Simeng”,and hence led a new craze for unearth document research in China since the end of the last century,deserved to be the epoch-making celebrity in the field of Chinese ideological history.This article chiefly based on the timeline,Pang Pu’s academic thoughts and achievements of four aspects in the early,middle and late days were carded by fully learning from the previous theoretical research achievements,and adopts historical analysis,comparative study,comprehensive induction and other methods,analyzes his academic achievements in the context of the historical background and specific national conditions where he was in then based on a series of major works of Mr.Pang,conducts a detailed analysis of Mr.Pang’s academic thoughts on studies about traditional Chinese culture and ideology and his contributions to it,and examines its reasonableness and limitations from a dialectical and historical perspective,in a bid to demonstrate his academic thoughts objectively,comprehensively and completely.The introduction part discusses the learning path of Mr.Pang Pu,the primary advocate,leader and impeller of the revitalization of traditional Chinese culture.The practical value and significance of the research on Pang Pu’s academic thoughts are deeply elaborated.And the existing problems of domestic and foreign research on Pang Pu’s academic thoughts are sorted out.The research methods and innovations of this paper are pointed out.Chapter one focuses on expounding on the life experiences,academic origin,character and learning of Pang Pu.Mr.Pang was erudite,lenient and benevolent with unique methodologies and many domains of learning,accomplished in the area of study on Chinese culture and traditional thought,and was a leading authority in academia.This chapter gives a brief review of his life experiences and academic origin,and points out that his way of learning was serious,rigorous,realistic,truth-pursuing as well as unique,bold and innovative,demonstrating the most precious independent spirit and self-consciousness as a scholar to the world.Chapter Two focuses on discusses Pang Pu’s studies about the silk manuscript The Five Elements in the Mawangdui Han Tombs.Pang pu,as the most diligent scholar studying the silk manuscripts in Mawangdui Han Tombs,ground breaking proposed the“five elements” here refers to five virtues-“benevolence,righteousness,propriety,wisdom and sanity” by virtue of his deep theoretical foundation and mastery of The Five Elements and was the first to put forward that this is “The Five Elements” theory used by Xuncius to criticize Simeng School in A Critique of Twelve Figures,thus unfolding a great mystery in Chinese academic history and becoming a major achievement acknowledged by academia.This chapter mainly introduces the discoveries from The Five Elements of Mawangdui silk books,and shows Pang Pu’s research on the “benevolence,righteousness,courtesy,wisdom and trust” of The Five Elements and the theory of five elements of Simeng School,intending to show his outstanding contribution to the study of The Five Elements of Mawangdui silk books.Chapter three focuses on Pang Pu’s theory of “one divided into three” and Chinese dialectics thoughts.The “one dividing into three parts” theory is called as the password to Chinese culture by academia and has already become a landmark finding of Pang Pu’s academic thoughts.Pang Pu studied Confucianism thoughts from the perspectives of“moderation”,deeply explored the profound dialectics thoughts in Dong Xi Jun,and constructed the theoretical system of “one divided into three” and allowing us to comprehend his expectations on the contemporary value and global meaning of traditional Chinese culture.This chapter focuses on the evolution of Pang Pu’s “one divided into three” and his understanding of Confucianism dialectical thoughts of “moderation”.Besides,this chapter discusses his philosophical thinking system of “one divided into three” which was constructed by combining Fang Yizhi’s “the opposite can also be unified” and Hegel’s dialectics,and points out the practical value of Pang Pu’s “one divided into three”.Chapter four focuses on discusses Pang Pu’s thought on cultural philosophy.The mainstream ideological trend throughout the late 1980 s was “anti-tradition”.Nonetheless,Pang Pu did not blindly follow the trend amid the zeitgeist,rather,based on the deep understanding of culture,he proposed his opinions and thoughts.Pang Pu was the first to make the “strong voice of the times ”of attaching importance to the study of cultural history,and he began to break the ideological constraints in the path of the rejuvenation of traditional culture,which led to the research on cultural thoughts,and formed unique cultural philosophy.This chapter introduces Pang Pu’s contribution to the promotion and revival of Chinese traditional culture;studies Pang Pu’s views on the definition of“culture”,the nationality and epochal character of culture,and cultural tradition and traditional culture;and explains the academic and practical significance of Pang Pu’s cultural philosophy thoughts.Chapter five focuses on discusses Pang Pu’s studies about the bamboo slips in Guodian Chu tombs.Pang Pu gave original interpretations of many core issues,including Confucian theory of Xinxing,Confucianism-Taoism relationship and Taiyi Shengshui,and he proposed a series of extremely important academic views.He was an outstanding representative of Guodian Chu slip studies universally acknowledged in academia at present and was the first to unfold the millennial mystery of Confucianism-Mencius academic inheritance of and fill the void of this intellectual history.This chapter briefly introduces the findings and arrangement about Guodian Chu slips,conducts a comparative analysis of Chu bamboo slips and the silk manuscript The Five Elements,and probes into the history of Chinese Confucianism and Chinese intellectual and cultural histories in the pre-Qin period with unearthed Taoist and Confucian slips.Moreover,the innovative study put forward groundbreaking opinions such as Confucian “threefold morality”,and “three heaven-human relationships”,which helped unfold the age-old mystery of “the Five Elements of Simeng” and reviewed and filled the void about Confucianism-Mencius in academic and intellectual histories.“A superior man reaches its greatest height and brilliancy and follows the path of the mean;reaches the breadth and greatness and penetrates the refined and subtle to the end”.Pang Pu had tenderness and respect for traditional Chinese culture all his life.Over more than 60 years of his academic career,he went through all the vicissitudes and hardships of life,but his determination to devote himself to academic research never changed.Moreover,his academic studies have prominent characteristics and can be described as ingenious and one of a kind.Basically every work of his opened up a whole new research field.Thus,studying the academic thoughts,research findings and concept of study of Pang Pu is of high academic value and theoretical significance.Precious spiritual wealth left by him in many areas of study about Chinese culture are worth being used by us to enlighten people and create by returning to the origin,to drive the inheritance,integration and innovative development of fine Chinese culture.