Hong Fan is the title of Shangshu. Old Biography is the "Heaven and Earth Dafa" stated by Ji Zi to Zhou Wuwang. Modern people may think that it was written by Confucian scholars at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period or the Han Dynasty. "Records of Five Elements" said: "Yu ruled the flood and gave Luo Shu, and he learned from the law, and Hong Fan also." So it is also called "Luo Shu". Tuo domineer over and talked, saying that Yu had made great contributions to water control, and God gave him the "Nine Realms of Hong Fan".
Among them, the five elements of water, fire, wood, gold and earth and their functions are put forward. Regarding Hong Fan's political philosophy, before the Northern Song Dynasty, Confucianism paid more attention to the five elements. After the Southern Song Dynasty, Neo-Confucianism paid more attention to the field of imperial power. The importance of these two domains completely corresponds to their order in the nine domains: the fifth is the initial domain and the emperor is the fifth domain (middle domain).
Background introduction:
Hong Fan advocated that the Emperor of Heaven should establish an "imperial pole" to reward and punish his subjects and make them obey. He also put forward three methods of "rigidity and softness" to govern the people, arguing that tortoise shell can solve doubts and political situation can change the astronomical phenomena, which later became the theoretical basis of the idea of "harmony between man and nature" in Han Dynasty. Dong Zhongshu explained the trip of dutiful son and loyal minister in the order of five acts.
Wang Anshi wrote Biography of Hong Fan with five tricks: "Heaven and Taoism rule everything". Hong Fan contains some basic viewpoints of ancient political philosophy. Hong Fan means "Dafa"; The so-called "law" includes both "Tao" and "rules", which is quite different from the concept of "law" today. There was also an academic fraud in ancient times, which was called forgery.