Lu Shanji's Study On The Four Book

Lu Shanji(1575-1636),with the name of Boshun and the name of Qianyue,was born in Dingxing,Hebei Province.He was a scholar in the 41 st year of Wanli(1613).He served as the head of the Shandong Department of the Ministry of household,the head of the Department of military affairs,and the Shaoqing of Taichang temple.In the ninth year of Chongzhen(1636),he defended the city and refused to clear the death.He was posthumous "loyalty Festival".Lu Shanji followed Wang Yiwu,the third generation scholar of the northern wangmen,and Xu Guangqi,a famous minister in the late Ming Dynasty.He was close to sun Chengzong,sun Qifeng and many Donglin Party members.He was one of the main initiators and representatives of the academic research in the northern Zhili region in the late Ming Dynasty.Lu Shanji’s academic thought is based on Lu Wang and integrates Cheng Zhu.He pays attention to "reaching the highest level after going to school" and "returning to the covenant after going abroad".He takes it as his practice,lecturing,engaging in politics and turning to metaphysics.It is based on Taoism and economy,showing the characteristics of the times of academic transformation and the regional characteristics of Yan and Zhao culture.The four books on the covenant was written by Lu Shanji in his later years,which is the condensation of his thoughts all his life.His interpretation of the classics of the four books shows in many places the unique understanding of the literati and bureaucrats who paid attention to practical use during the change of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the crazy bone and pride of their battlefield experience,which is quite different from the scholars of Longxi and Xushan,who are also Postgraduates of the Yangming Dynasty.By investigating Lu Shanji’s "four books on the covenant",this paper first expounds that Lu Shanji takes the heart as the body,takes "truth" as "benevolence",takes "extensive covenant" as the cultivation work,and takes "Kong Yan Le Chu" as the teaching purpose to show his academic characteristics of taking the king as the foundation and integrating the king of Zhu;The second is to use the form of the text to more clearly grasp the basic content and typical views of his "four books" study thought,and make a comparison with Zhu Zi and Yangming’s interpretation of the corresponding text of the "four books",highlight the evolution of the "four books" study under the evolution of the times,and show the interpretation mode of Hebei Wang School in the late Ming Dynasty,represented by Lu Shanji,adhering to the spirit of practical application;Third,it expounds Lu Shanji’s cognition of the concepts of Neo Confucianism,especially his attention to "Rites",and shows his Confucian turn.On the whole,the relationship between Neo Confucianism and the study of the four books profoundly shows the interdependent relationship between the history of Chinese thought and the history of Chinese academia.As the inheritor and reviser of Yangming school,Lu Shanji’s Si Shu Shuo Yue,in the form of text annotation,shows the transformation phenomenon and internal logic of the transformation from the invention of Neo Confucianism in the song and Ming Dynasties to the end of the Ming Dynasty;The academic thought characteristics of integrating Zhu Wang and anti contract recognition made an epochal summary for the academic inheritance of the northern wangmen.