The Thoughts And Practices Of Zhang-BoXing’s Spread Of Neo-Confucianism

Zhang-BoXing was a famous scholar of neo-Confucianism in early Qing dynasty. Zhang-BoXing regarded Zhu xi’s aphorism as his academic standards. He has devoted his life to spread neo-Confucianism by building academies and publishing neo-Confucian classics called Zheng yi tang anthology. The Zhang-BoXing’s Thoughts and Practices of Spread of neo-Confucianism played a important role in The rise of Neo-Confucianism in early Qing dynasty.Zhang-BoXing’s Thoughts and Practices of Spread of neo-Confucianism has a special political and cultural background. in political terms, The country needs to establish the mainstream value unified thought from the field of ideology, in academic terms, People of insight in order to Correct bad style of study,they begin to critique Wang Yangming’s philosophy. Neo Confucianism Renaissance is imperative. Zhang-BoXing born in Literary family, He believe in neo-Confucianism and eliminate Yang-ming theory’s and other theory’s effects on neo-Confucianism for whole life. When he become a official, Zhang-BoXing combine the officials’education responsibility and activity of Spreading of neo-Confucianism.Zhang BoXing emphasizes the search and arrangement of the classics of neo-Confucianism.Zhang-BoXing concentrates his full attention on Spreading of neo-Confucianism in his spare time. And he Spares no effort to collect the books of Confucian scholars to publish, called "Zheng yi tang anthology" which contains classics of neo-Confucianism from Song dynasty to Qing dynasty. Zhang-BoXing also build many Academies and encourage scholars study in it. These Academies become critical position for Spreading of neo-Confucianism, such as Aofeng academy and Ziyang academy.As a famous official and a neo-Confucianism scholar, Zhang-BoXing practice neo-Confucianism and Set a model for the spread of Science neo-Confucianism.Zhang-BoXing’s Spreading of neo-Confucianism promotes the Neo Confucianism rivival and let neo-Confucianism become Official ruling ideology in early Qing dynasty. Studying The Thoughts and Practices of Zhang-BoXing’s Spreading of neo-Confucianism and concluding his successful experience is not only helpful for understanding the development of neo-Confucianism in Qing dynasty but also provide some historical reference for The spreading of Confucianism in today’s society.