The Debating Of The Relation Between Shape And Spirit And Taoism In Pre-Qin In South-North Dynasties

The South—North Dynasties were important period that Buddhism emerged, finished the localization, therefore caused the concentrating debating of relation between shape and spirit in the philosophy history. The debating of the relation between shape and spirit in the South—North Dynasties was mainly carried on among Buddhism and a philosophy of China's traditional Confucianism and Taoism, this text expounds the fact is views of the relation between shape and spirit of Buddhism and Taoism of the pre-Qin period.In the South-North Dynasties, the debating of the relation between shape and spirit mainly took place in the South Dynasties, Song, Qi, Liang should be paid more attention on. Not Mou Zi, Hui Yuan, He ChengTian , Zong Bing, but Fan Zheng were intelligent personages. In North Dynasties, Buddhists paid more attention on how to do than on theory, the representatives are Du Bi and Xing Shao. The paper's clue is persons of both sides, and we paid attention to explain the both sides how to inherit and develop Taoist's theories of the relation between shape and spirit. Philosophers who kept that spirit must die out expressing a view and extracting a natural theory of monism of air, it taking Dao as highest noumenon of Taoism of the pre-Qin period more mainly a bit, but its weak point is, though think that spirit's essence is air, spirit and shape are two things, can't object to the view that shape is coarse and spirit is fine effectively. In a situation that the shortcoming was exposed constantly, in Liang Dynasty, Fan Zhen transformed the view of the relation between shape and spirit, proposed the proposition that "Shape and spirit are not depart from each other", "Shape is essence and spirit is function"; Philosophers who kept that spirit never dies out went from Buddhism, and used the thought of Taoism of the pre-Qin period and process it especially, utilized the theories of Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi, etc. that valued spirit more than shape, and obvious thought spirit does not die out, to proved shape and spirit are different, shape is coarse and spirit is fine. At the same time they studied ontology of Taoism of the pre-Qin period as the model, made great efforts to improve spirit's status, made spirit to be abstract to take progressively. The debating of the relation between shape and spirit jointed with the trope of firewood and fire in Zhuang zi, their explanations of the trope is a concentrated reflection of their progress state.