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Xunzi's works include "Xunzi". Xunzi (about 313 B.C. - 238 B.C.), the name of the word Qing (a said that the people respected each other and called Qing), the late Warring States period Zhao Guoren, the two Han Dynasty because of the Han Dynasty Emperor Xuan asked the name of the "Sun Qing", a famous thinker, philosopher, educator, representative of Confucianism, the pre-Qin era of a hundred schools of thought.
Source: Xunzi served as the sacrificial wine of the Qi State Jixia School Palace three times, and twice served as the commander of the Chulan Mausoleum. In his later years, he wrote books and said in Lanling County, accepted apprentices and taught his profession, and died in Si, known as the "Later Sage".
Xunzi summarized the theoretical achievements of a hundred schools of thought and his own academic thoughts, and founded a complete philosophical system of naïve materialism in the pre-Qin period, and his ideas imperceptibly influenced the development of feudal society for more than 2,000 years.
The above content refers to the encyclopedia - Xunzi.
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Xunzi has been very smart since he was a child, and he has a reputation as a prodigy at the age of ten, and his knowledge is very good. When he grew up, he traveled north to Yan Kingdom, but unfortunately, he was not appreciated by King Yan. By the time he was fifty years old, Xunzi was also attracted to Qi because King Xiang of Qi recruited wise men, many scholars went to Qi to give lectures, and Qi was famous for its rich collection of books.
Xunzi stayed in the Qi State for a few years, and was very respected by the King of Qi, and was named "Doctor Lu Kailie" and became an advisor to the Qi State. Because he was relatively old and knowledgeable, he was elected by everyone three times between the ages of fifty-three and seventy or eighty to hold the "sacrificial wine".
Some people with a small amount of gas can't help but blush and say bad things about Xunzi everywhere. After listening to the slander, King Qi gradually distanced himself from Xunzi. Xunzi decided to leave the Qi Kingdom.
At this time, he was already an 81-year-old man, and he didn't know where to go, and his heart was very heavy. I heard that Chu Chun Shenjun loved the Magi and decided to go to the Chu State. Chun Shenjun admired Xunzi's good name and decided to ask him to serve as the "Lanling Order".
Unexpectedly, luck was very bad, Chun Shenjun had a doorman slander, Chun Shenjun considered it, and finally dismissed Xunzi. He passed through the state of Qin and met with King Qin Zhao. At this time, King Qin Zhao and Fan Ju were designing a conspiracy of "distant friendship and close attack" to conquer the world, and they were not interested in Xunzi's big truth, so Xunzi had to return to Zhao.
Chun Shenjun drove away Xunzi and regretted it, sent people to Zhao State to invite Xunzi three times, and repeatedly compensated for it, and finally couldn't resist Chun Shenjun's kindness, Xunzi returned to Chu State as Lanling Order. Later, Chun Shenjun died, and Xunzi was ninety-eight years old, so he resigned from the government and wrote thirty-two articles, which called this the Confucian masterpiece ———Xunzi" that has been handed down to future generations.
Xunzi thinks: A person's eyes are greedy for beauty, his ears like to sound good, and his tongue loves deliciousness. Wanting to eat, want to play, and enjoy leisure and hard work are all human nature, so people have seven emotions and six desires.
These natural instincts are not bad, but if they are developed according to human nature, they will inevitably lead to competition and tyranny, and the world will become a world of selfishness and terror.
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XunziHe was a native of Zhao at the end of the Warring States period.
A famous thinker, writer, and politician, he was known as Xun Qing.
In the Western Han Dynasty, he avoided Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty Liu Xun.
Because Xun and Sun have the same ancient pronunciation, it is also called Sun Qing, and he has served as the sacrificial wine of the school palace of Qi Guoji three times, and then Chu Lanling is located in Lanling County, Shandong Province.
Advocating that human nature is evil, denying the moral concept of natural talent, emphasizing the influence of acquired environment and education on people, his doctrine is often compared with Mencius's theory of sexual goodness, and Xunzi also made a significant contribution to the reorganization of Confucian classics.
Tomb of Xunzi
The Xunzi tomb is located one kilometer southeast of Lanling Town, Lanling County, Linyi City, and is a mound of loess accumulation. It is 10 meters long from east to west, 8 meters wide from north to south, 7 meters high at both ends of east and west, 3 meters high in the middle, it is full of black locust on it, there are two stone tablets in front of the tomb: one is Qing Daoguang.
Twenty-one years (A.D. 1841) erected, the stele seal book is "to build the Xunzi tombstone", the inscription and signature are not clear; The other piece is the 30th year of Guangxu (AD 1904) Shandong governor Zhou Fuli, engraved "Chulan Mausoleum Order Xunqing's tomb". In 1976, it was listed as a key cultural relics protection unit in Shandong Province.
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Xunzi's position in the Confucian system can be understood from the following three aspects:
1. Xunxue has the spirit of academic criticism and the consciousness of inclusiveness, which reflects the historical trend of the Warring States period from a hundred schools of thought to academic integration. No matter from which angle it is examined, the value of academic history and intellectual history of "Xunzi Fei Twelve Sons" should be explored.
2. Xunzi made great contributions to the teaching of Confucian classics. Confucianism in the Han Dynasty, not only "etiquette" comes from Xunxue, but also "poetry and classics" and even "Spring and Autumn Studies" are related to Xunxue. Qing Confucian Wang Zhong's "General Theory of Xun Qingzi" believes that "Xun Qing's learning, from Confucius, and especially due to the scriptures", and made a detailed study of Xunzi's "transmission of scriptures", which is basically agreed by scholars who study the history of classics.
The contemporary Confucian Xu Fuguan also spoke highly of Xunzi's position in the history of scriptures.
3. Xunzi pays close attention to the changes in the real world and is full of the spirit of merit. Xunzi lectured in Qi, Shi Eun in Chu, discussed soldiers in Zhao, discussed politics in Yan, and discussed customs in Qin, and his influence on the society at that time was not under Confucius and Mencius. Confucius did not enter the Qin Dynasty, but Xunzi praised the Qin government and Qin customs, and at the same time criticized him for being "Confucian".
This shows that under the premise of adhering to the basic belief of Confucianism, he is still striving to expand the political space of Confucianism. Between politics and academia, the pragmatic spirit embodied by Xunzi should be the object of Dong Zhongshu, a Confucian sect in the Han Dynasty. All of them contributed to the adaptation of Confucianism to the environment of the times and to seek new development.
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In the cultural context of the Qing Dynasty scholar Liang Yusheng inherited the "respect for Mengzi and depreciation of Xun", he did not emotionally recognize Xunzi as "can merge with my Mencius", but Wang Xianqian's "Xunzi Collection Explanation Preface" Yun Xie Yong's "Xunzi Note Interpretation Preface" in the King James "Summary of the Four Libraries" "The first column of Xunzi Confucianism, rebuke the words of good and evil, the friendship of the discipline, and the conclusion is obvious to scholars, and they know and advocate it." Xie Yong read the whole book of "Xunzi" and said with deep feelings: "Foolish taste to read the whole book, and know that Xunzi's learning is mellow, and the text is Boda, from the fourth son down, Xun is full of crowns and Confucianism, not all the names and laws can be seen together."
Xie Yong uses Confucius, Meng, and Xun to briefly describe the history of pre-Qin Confucianism, or uses Meng and Xun to frame the development of pre-Qin Confucianism after Confucius.
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I contribute by it, and it is a representative work.
Introduction (1) Xunzi (c. 313 B.C., 238 B.C.), name, Ziqing, Huaxia nationality (Han nationality), a famous thinker, writer and politician of Zhao at the end of the Warring States Period, was known as "Xunqing" at the time. In the Western Han Dynasty, because of the avoidance of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty Liu Xun, because the ancient sound of the words "Xun" and "Sun" are connected, it is also called Sun Qing. He served as the sacrificial wine of the Jixia School Palace of Qi State three times, and later served as the order of Chu Lanling (located in present-day Lanling County, Shandong).
2) Xunzi, a native of the late Warring States period, ideologically advocated: benevolence and righteousness", "royal road", "convincing people with virtue"; put forward the people-oriented idea of "Junzhou and Minshui"; put forward the ethics of "sexual evil"; Advocate for the rule of law. Xunzi contribution:
He reformed Confucianism and integrated the positive and rational elements of Legalism and Taoism, so that Confucianism could better meet the needs of social development. During the Warring States Period, Confucianism was developed by Meng Xun and became a great sect among the hundreds of sons.
3) The representative work is the collection of works "Xunzi", the most famous is "Persuasion".
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Xunzi Doctrine, Xunzi (c. 325 BC 238 BC), Mingguan, Ziqing, was a native of Zhao State (now southwest of Shanxi). According to the "Historical Records".
It is recorded that Xunzi went to the state of Qi at the age of fifty.
Study tour, once lectured in the Jixia School Palace, the capital of Qi State, and served as the head of the School Palace. Later, he was a native of Chu, and he also traveled west to Qin and discussed troops in Zhao. In his later years, he dismissed the official Ju Lanling and engaged in writing. Later, it was compiled into "Xunzi".
The doctrine of thought is critically absorbed. He denied the idea of the Mandate of Heaven, saying: "Heaven is permanent, not for Yao, not for ruin."
The so-called heaven is all the natural world, and the movement of heaven is not mixed with the will of man, but has its own laws of motion. People have to follow the laws of nature in order to get good results, otherwise they will be punished by the laws. Its political ideology is mainly "solemn courtesy" and "re-emphasis on law".
He believes that "the beginning of the rule of the righteous is also", and "the law is the end of the rule". "Honoring the virtuous and the king, respecting the law and loving the people and tyranny", advocating both etiquette and law, and the king and tyrant.
Xunzi's thinking is biased towards experience and personnel, starting from the social context, attaching importance to social order, opposing mysticism, and attaching importance to human efforts. The central idea of Confucius is "benevolence", the central idea of Mencius is "righteousness", and Xunzi proposed "etiquette" and "law" after the two, attaching importance to the norms of people's behavior in society. He regarded Confucius as a sage, but opposed the philosophical ideas of the "Simeng School" headed by Mencius and Zisi, and believed that Zigong and himself were the scholars who inherited Confucius's thoughts. >>>More
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Water and fire have air but no life, plants and trees have life but no sense, and animals have consciousness but do not speak of morality; People are angry, alive, conscious, and pay attention to morality, so people are the most precious in the world. Man is not as strong as an ox or a horse in running, but why is it that an ox and a horse are made into slavery? It's because: >>>More
Xunzi's works: "Xunzi", the main idea is benevolence and righteousness, royal road; the relationship between "the king and the boat and the people"; Sexual evil.
Xunzi itself is not an authentic Confucian. At that time, the hundred schools of thought were not so clearly divided. They all use teachers to distinguish schools. >>>More