The Heng-ch'u Four-Sentences Teaching In The View Of I Ching

Chang Tsai was one of the theoretical foundation's inaugurator about the Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Ming Dynasties, my text is established in Heng-Ch'u Yixue, use the Heng-ch'u Four-Sentences Teaching as the four theoretical frames to research his philosophy, want to annotation some new idea about the Chang Tsai's philosophy.According to the structure of the Heng-ch'u Four-Sentences Teaching, except the Introduction, my text has four chapters in total.First chapter,"To Set the Heart for Heaven and Earth"to reveal Chang Tsai's thought about the Universal Change, which is discoursed the Tian'Tao. Chang Tsai considered"To Set the Heart for Heaven and Earth"was an process of the Thing grow by explained the I Ching–Fu's Tuan'ci , which also said the Great Void was the supreme ontology, which made everything to bring out and death in the universe by the Shen'hua or the action about the Ch'i gather and scatter. In this process, there was Ti Yong Xiang Ji existed between the Great Void and the Ch'i, there was Li Yi Fen Shu existed between the Great Void and the Thing.Second chapter,"To Set Life for People"reveal Chang Tsai's thought about the Cheng Xing, which is discoursed the Ren'Tao. On the basis of I Ching's sentence"the follower is good, the come to being is nature", Chang Tsai considered there were two parts in human nature, the nature of Heaven and Earth which was pure Good and belonged to the level of surpass valve ideal; the nature of physical which interblend Good and Evil and belonged to the level of the Sein. So Chang Tsai considered to Cheng Xing by the Kongfu of Cheng and Xin, then we can return to the nature of Heaven and Earth which was pure Good from the nature of physical which was interblend Good and Evil.Third chapter,"To Inherit the Sage's Knowledge"reveal Chang Tsai's thought about the Confucian Orthodoxy. In connection with Buddhism and Taoism flourishing in that time, Chang Tsai criticized Buddhism's and Taoism didn't known the I Ching , so they had the lots of malpractices which contain Ti Yong Shu Jue, Yi Xin Wei Fa, Birth-death Cycle and so on. Chang Tsau's wanted to re-heckle the Confucian Orthodoxy according to the development system of I Ching, considered the Confucian Orthodoxy's should dated from Fu Hsi, Patron of Agriculture, Yellow Emperor. In the Confucian Orthodoxy, Chang Tsai considered Mencius was the Confucian sage after Confucius.Fourth chapter,"To Initiate Peace and Security for All Ages"reveal Chang Tsai's thought about the Practical Learning School. In Chang Tsai's the Practical Learning School, the Li as an important part which root in I Ching. So in Chang Tsai's the Practical Learning School, one aspect, he considered the society would be renaissance if the government's domination recover to the Three Dynasty or according to the Li, so he wanted to reconstruct a society which rule by Li that contain Jing-Tian, Feudalism, Patriarchal Clan System and so on, he also pay out continual hard work; The another aspect, he considered the people have two different of acknowledges which were the knowledge of virtue and the knowledge gained by seeing and hearing, he wanted to grasped the truth between Heaven and Earth by the Kongfu of pursue study which contain Aspire, Bowen Yueli, Qiongli, Jinxin and so on.In brief, on the basis of I Ching, Chang Tsai structured his philosophy's framework by the Heng-ch'u Four-Sentences Teaching. My text's purport is to study The Heng-ch'u Four-Sentences Teaching in the field of I Ching, then we could know more about Chang Tsai's philosophy's construction feature which is Yi Yi Wei Zong.