The Study On Wei Yuan’s Thought Of Religion

The modern history of China is the period when Chinese thought changed intensely，The religion thought of Wei Yuan also reflect the characteristics of the period both conservative and advanced side.After the Opium War Wei Yuan was the first scholar who learned religion asystematicly. His definition of religion is affected people’s knowledge system, Confucianism,Buddhism, Islam, Christianity is the world’s four major religions．He was well-read the Confucianism has deep knowledge．As a result of personality factors and the frustrations of life in his later years he converted to Buddhism．His experience in the northwest and southeast coastal warfare, to the Muslim faith of Islam and the British Christianity have close contact with．Therefore, Wei Yuan’s ideas about religion than the same period of other intellectuals more profound.Wei Yuan has deep knowledge on Confucianism, Buddhism, but does not have deep understanding of Christianity and Islam. He stood in the Confucianism, Buddhism ’s position on the evaluation of Islam and Christianity．He praised the attitude of Buddhism and Confucianism but to Christian and Muslim mainly negative attitude. Wei Yuan’s religious thought has its advanced side, Religion has its regionality and nationality．Different religions must respect each other can not be forced to change other people’s religious beliefs．Confucianism，Buddhism, Islam, Christianity are important religious, The four founders of major religions are cultivated on one side of the saint. WeiYuan’s religious thought is the traditional ideas and the western new knowledge combination, but also the cognitive rationality and perceptual shift performance.Study on Wei Yuan’s religious thought not only from the religion which is a special point of view to look at the history of modern china, exploration on the track ofthe cognition of modern intellectuals in religion．but also on the comprehensive, deepstudy of Wei Yuan also has important significance.