Wang Shouren (1472, 1 0,31-1529,19), Han nationality, was born in Yuyao County, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province (now Yuyao, Ningbo). Scholars call him Mr. Yangming, also known as Wang Yangming, because he once built a room in Yangming Cave in Huiji Mountain. A famous thinker, writer, philosopher and strategist in Ming Dynasty, he was proficient in Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, and was a master of Wang Lu's mind.
2. Wang Zhongyang
The pioneer of Quanzhen Daoism (1112-170) was born in Xianyang (now Xianyang, Shaanxi Province), formerly known as Zhongfu and Yunqing, and later renamed Zuo (or Zhe), Zhiming and Chongyang.
Wang Zhongyang comes from a wealthy family. His life coincided with the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty, the invasion of the Jin people, and the national disaster. In his youth, he was "saddened by the collapse of the motherland and the weakness of the nation." In the spring of this year, he passed the examination of literature and martial arts. He got both Chinese and martial arts and was interested in saving the nation.
However, due to the weakness of the Southern Song Dynasty regime, Wang Zhongyang's ambition was not brought into full play, because he abandoned the vast northern people and lived in peace. After the failure of resisting gold, Wang Zhongyang dug a pit, called it "the tomb of the living dead", and hung it with a square card. The book says: The king is crazy. Seven years later, Wang Zhongyang walked out of the tomb of the living dead and went to Shandong to preach. During this period, he transformed seven disciples, namely the famous "Quanzhen seven sons" in Taoist history, and Quanzhen religion flourished.
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Wang Shouren's Yangming School, also known as Wang Xue and Xue Xin, as a school of Confucianism, can be traced back to Mencius at the earliest. Judging from Wang Shouren's life experience, he was obviously influenced by Taoism more than Buddhism, but he could not do without the essence of Confucianism.
Inherit Lu Jiuyuan's thought that "mind is reason" and oppose Cheng's method of seeking "truth" through things. Because things are endless, annoying and tired, he advocates "to conscience", looking for "reason" from his own heart, which is in people's hearts and turned into everything in the universe.
In the relationship between knowledge and action, it is emphasized that knowledge is more important than action, and there are actions in knowledge and knowledge in action. The so-called "integration of knowledge and practice" is inseparable from the two. Knowledge must be manifested in behavior, if not, it can't be regarded as real knowledge. Yangming school is one of the mainstream theories in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, which later spread in Japan and had great influence on Japan and East Asia.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Wang Shouren
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Wang Zhongyang