The old name of Hua Shu was Qi Qiuzi, which was written by Song Qiqiu in the Southern Tang Dynasty. This theory can be found in Zhang Lei's Qiu Hua Shu Hou, Ma Ling's Nan Tang Shu and Huang Gong Wu Jun's Qi Shu Zhi in the early Song Dynasty. However, Chen Tuan, a contemporary of Song Qiqiu, thought otherwise.
Hua Shu is divided into six parts, each of which is a volume, that is, channelization, technicalization, morality, benevolence, food and frugality. Each is divided into several chapters, * * * chapter one hundred and ten. Mainly using Taoist philosophy and Confucian ethics, this paper expounds the idea of cultivating health from the changes of things, explores the causes of social chaos, and points out the way to achieve peaceful governance.
Hua Shu is all about words "Tao", nothing is about words "Shu", nothing is about words "De", morality is about words "Benevolence", this tax is about food, one of the three treasures is frugality, and this is about words "frugality". Many examples are given of natural phenomena such as snakes turning into turtles and finches turning into clams, from which philosophies are analyzed, so as to understand the way to transcend life and die and cultivate one's morality. This is the so-called "a gentleman knows his body by his body, and he knows it by his body". "Daohua" and "Shu Hua" are two volumes, which mainly discuss the way of life and death and deification, which are ontology view and nature view; The four volumes, Dehua, Renhua, Edification and Thrift, mainly discuss the way of self-cultivation and governance, which belongs to political view, ethical view and self-cultivation view.
Hua Shu takes "Hua" as its name, and argues with the way of all things changing. It holds that the differences of Hua, such as the infinity of rings, all come from Tao, but take nothingness as its body. He listed that the old maple can be turned into a feather man, the rotten Michael into a butterfly, the virtuous woman into a precious stone, and the mountain Qiu into a lily, all of which can be transformed into each other. The key to cultivating Buddhism lies in the fact that the teacher has no ambition, no intention to join the Tao, and the shape is made by God. Forget the shape to nourish qi, forget the qi to nourish the spirit, and forget the spirit to nourish the deficiency. There is nothing, there is life and death, there is affection, there is nothing inside and outside, and there is nothing real and nothing empty. In this way, we can get the outline of heaven and earth, know the room of yin and yang, shed the five elements, take off the three lights, call yin and yang, serve the five elements, and even construct heaven and earth, and make the sun and moon again.
On Emperor Wang Zhidao, he took morality, benevolence and righteousness as the foundation, and thought that all the five principles were based on one. If you have strange wisdom, you will not be a minister in the world. If you have rewards and punishments, you will be taught to go astray. If you have intimacy, you will be a villain. Only when you are righteous and upright, you can be carefree and harmless.
his theory contains the foundation of the people, the urgency of the people and even the foundation of the five permanent members. If you are frugal and eat, then Guizhou and Lebanon will be happy, benevolence and righteousness will be born, and the world will be autonomous. For the rulers who starve the people, they attack them extremely hard, thinking that this is very unfair and unjust.
There is nothing better than frugality, which is the key to saving the world and an ideal politics.