Is the weakness of Song Dynasty related to the prosperity of Neo-Confucianism? Does the demise of the Ming Dynasty have anything to do with the rise of Yangming's mind?

Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism is actually an extension and development of Confucianism. Many people think that Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism is hypocritical, and it does have some truth, because many of Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism claims are contrary to human nature, advocating the preservation of justice and the elimination of human desires.

Zhu himself did not abide by his knowledge. However, many people are defending Zhu now, saying that the meaning of upholding justice is actually very simple. For example, monogamy means protecting righteousness, but the system of three wives and four concubines is human desire, so protecting righteousness and destroying human desire is such a situation. This explanation completely pushed Zhu and others to the height of saints. In fact, do they think so?

Self-cultivation, knowing behavior first, knowing and doing second. ? Zhu Xi Zhu is called Zhu by everyone, which shows that his knowledge is really profound, and he pays attention to preserving nature and destroying people's desires. However, he himself married two nuns as concubines. Since you advocate killing people's desires, why do you openly violate this preaching?

His words and deeds tell the world that anyone can tell the truth, and the key is that no one will act according to the truth. Therefore, although Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism is extensive and profound, I think it would be a joke if those who advocate it don't follow it from the beginning.

Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism did not reach the height of weakening the Song Dynasty. As for Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism and the decline of the Song Dynasty, I think there is no necessary connection. Neo-Confucianism is just a kind of ideological scholarship, which can not rise to the level of national survival at all. Moreover, the Song Dynasty was not a weak party, and the economy of the Song Dynasty has always been very developed. In fact, the biggest problem in the Song Dynasty was to value literature over martial arts. Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism can never represent the literati, they are just a branch of the literati.

For example, Su Shi, a great writer, actually looked down on Cheng Yi and Cheng Hao, thinking that they would only write dead articles and their brains were not active enough. So there are many kinds of literati. In the Song Dynasty, the national defense was weak because of emphasizing literature over martial arts. But it is precisely because of the emphasis on literature over martial arts that people in the Song Dynasty lived a rich life. At that time, it was difficult to have both. Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism has been running through the whole Yuan Dynasty since the Song Dynasty. In fact, it reached a certain height in the Yuan Dynasty and then spread to the Ming Dynasty.

The real progress of Neo-Confucianism was in the hands of Wang Yangming in the Ming Dynasty. There was a great thinker in the Ming Dynasty, Mr. Wang Yangming. Wang Yangming is praised by many people as a master who is hard to come out through the ages, and his thought of understanding things has also influenced several generations. On the basis of Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism, he broke through innovation and founded Yangming's mind. In fact, this is another version of Neo-Confucianism, except that Wang Yangming pays more attention to practice. He is a doer himself.

When Zhu rebelled, he didn't wait for reinforcements from the imperial court, so he solved the rebellion himself. It's really scary. Therefore, Wang Yangming is not only a pure thinker like Zhu, Cheng Yi and Cheng Hao, but also a doer. He pays attention to the unity of knowing and doing, not only thinking, but also doing. We are all deeply influenced by him now. He combined his thoughts with practice, which led to the study of the mind. ? There is no good disgusting body, there is good malicious action. Knowing good and evil is a conscience, and doing good and evil is a matter. -Wang Yangming?

Mind is profound and profound, and even now it makes people feel transparent, so Wang Yangming is a very good thinker. How did his thoughts lead to the demise of the Ming Dynasty? There are many factors that led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty. From an academic point of view, I think Lindong Party talents are the chief culprit of the demise of the Ming Dynasty, and it is precisely because they provoked the party struggle in North Korea for their own interests that the Ming Dynasty alienated Germany. Even in Nanming, the party members did not let this small court go, and the party members headed by money continued to make trouble in the court. In the end, the Hong Guang court lasted only eight months before it died.

Lindong party member hates Wang Yangming's theory of Yangming's mind, so they belong to opposing factions. Xu Jie and Zhang are outstanding successors of the theory of mind. They were all important officials of ZTE in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the study of mind is an important force for the continuation of the Ming Dynasty, not the main reason for its demise.

Summary: Academic power does not constitute the rise and fall of a country. It can only be said that it exists in people's subconscious and has a subtle influence on the overall development. It is wrong to assert that Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism and Psychology have influenced the national luck. Learning is dead, and people are alive. Everything depends on how people who study these ideas use them.