How to view Wang Fuzhi s criticism of ancient writers

Scholars' evaluation of Wang Fuzhi:

Liu Xianting, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty, said: Wang Fu's learning is all-encompassing, and it is explained in the "Six Classics". The south of Dongting, the vitality of heaven and earth, the sage and sage, this is the only line.

Tan Sitong commented on Wang Fuzhi in "On the Six Arts Quatrain": All things recruit Su Tiandi Shu, and it depends on Nanyue's thunder. Zhang Taiyan praised:

In the season of the Qing Dynasty, Zhuo Ran was able to rise up to be stubborn, and those who achieved the results of recovery with the swift Zheng encountered it were just a farmer's family. Zhang Taiyan commented on Wang Fuzhi after the victory of the Xinhai Revolution: Chuanshan Doctrine is the source of national recovery, and all the princes who advocate righteousness in modern times have heard the wind and raised acres of sedan chairs, the water source is woody, and Ruiyusi.

Wang Fuzhi is the spiritual source of Huxiang culture, and is known as the twin constellation of Eastern and Western philosophy together with Hegel, the master of Chinese naïve materialism, the forerunner of Enlightenment thought, and the three major thinkers of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties together with Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu. In his later years, he lived in Shichuan Mountain under Nanyue Heng Mountain, wrote books and said, so he was called "Mr. Chuanshan". It was highly respected by the people of the time, Zeng Guofan, ***, and Tan Sitong.

Wang Fu advocated the idea of applying it to the world in his life, resolutely opposed Cheng Zhu Lixue, and proclaimed: "The Six Classics blame me for opening up a new face, and seven feet from the sky to beg to be buried alive." Naive materialist.

He was both perceptive and pedantic, seeing the inevitability of change in the overall history, but he was held back by the conservative ideas accumulated over the years in countless specific historical theories. Therefore, while he sharply put forward a number of novel ideas, he also violently attacked the same novel heretical ideas.

When Zhang Xianzhong asked him to join the uprising, he "cut his face and wrists and swore to die", but when the Qing soldiers went south, he raised troops to resist, mixing the national righteousness with the idea of loyalty to the monarch. This kind of behavior, which is full of contradictions, is the product of ideas full of contradictions. When he was young, he used his writings to meet friends and give advice, and to some extent he has shown a tendency to try to break through the traditional barriers.

Wang Fuzhi's philosophical thought is the essence of the spirit of the times under the special historical conditions of China in the 17th century, and occupies a very high position in the history of Chinese philosophy. However, his philosophy is limited by the times and classes, and has a duality, showing both valuable values and weaknesses that are severely bound by the traditional consciousness of feudalism. This contradiction in Wang Fuzhi's thought is a mirror of the contradictions of the Chinese era in the 17th century.

I believe that this contradiction is not only the contradiction of China in the 17th century, but also the contradiction of the world at that time, and the world in the 17th century was a world of ideological contradictions and rapid development.

The quality of Wang Fu's thinking is indeed an open model, and his writings can also be described as full of sweat. However, Wang Fuzhi's academic level is not high, for example, his historical evaluation works, which can be praised in expressing his progressive ideas, but it is difficult to become an ingenious person in his historical research and academic attitude. The modern super-high evaluation of it is mainly due to the influence of its ideological character, and it is basically an exaggeration for academics.

Throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties, the highest academic level and ideological level were Li Zhen and Fu Shan, followed by Huang Zongxi, Tang Zhen, Gu Yanwu, Wang Tingxiang, Wang Zhong, Fang Yizhi, Dai Zhen, and then Wang Fuzhi, Zhu Shunshui, Sun Qifeng, Wang Gen, Yan Yuan, Li Hao, Li Yan, Chen Xianzhang (in the Ming Dynasty, which was only Confucian, the Song and Yuan Dynasty liberal style of study was reopened), Zhan Ruoshui (continued Chen Xianzhang's Confucian free style of study, and Chen Zhan's style of study enlightened Wang Gen Taizhou School) and so on. Therefore, Wang Fuzhi is more of a scholarly work with a sense of brilliance and thought.

Chinese thinker and philosopher in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

This is part of Wang Fu's poetic theory, that is, "Yiyi", which is explained in detail as follows:

The so-called "one-mindedness" refers to poetic refinement, purity, and single-mindedness. In order to meet this standard, Wang Fuzhi believes that in the creation of poetry, the selection of materials should be concise, that is, the description of a feeling, an event, an object, a scene, a time, a place, etc.