| The philosophical idea of Hu Jingzhai in the early Ming Dynasty is a branch of Li School. He stated the major issues of Li School, but there were also initiatives. His philosophical idea on Li and Qi can be generalized that Li and Qi are inter-related with each other. Because of the controversy imbedded in their relationship which is the consequence of the other, especially, it is hard to understand in practical operation, Hu modified the doctrine of the relationship between cause and consequence of Li School, insisting on the inter-relation between Li and Qi; from epistemological point of view, Hu emphasized that mind and Li were unseparable whole and the natural laws should be got from human temperature and the books, whose feature was giving much importance to implementation; in the view of temperament, the most outstanding contribution made by Hu was his criticism on the preference of Baisha School to Buddhism, which was actually the criticism on Confucian. Making a general survey of Hu's philosophical idea, the most important contribution, which was at the same time he was most proud of, was his "Zhujing doctrine", which was also an important symbol for him to be a practical Confucian.The text used the method of comparing horizontally and longitudinally, by analyzing Jingzhai's inheritance and development of Cheng-Zhu's thoughts, clarified Jingzhai's Neo-Confucianism longitudinally, meantime, by analying Jingzhai's criticism to thoughts of Buddhism and Taoism, embodied Jingzhai's Neo-Confucianism of Cheng-Zhu ulteriorly in horizontal direction. |
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