People near the mountain are far from the moon, so they think the moon is small, so the mountain is bigger than the moon. If someone's eyes are as big as the sky, they will see that the mountains are high and the moon is bigger.
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The mountain is smaller than the moon and the sidewalk is bigger than the moon. If people's eyes are as big as the sky, they should see that the mountains are higher and the moon is wider.
Source: From Wang Yangming's "Covering the Moon and Living in the Mountain" in the Ming Dynasty.
The poem Fu Yue Dian was written by Wang Yangming when he was 12 years old. Wang Shouren (1472- 1528), whose real name is Bo 'an, is called Yang, and the world is called Mr. Yang Ming, so he is also called Wang Yangming.
It is admirable that children can have such consciousness, which is echoed by later thinking. "The mountain is higher and the moon is wider" means that although they have ideas, they know the reality. Although the mountain is small in the middle of the month, it is as high as me, and it is also prescient with the later "unity of knowledge and action". Maybe Wang Shouren didn't think much at that time, but this is the consciousness of later generations to read poetry.
Wang Yangming's original Yangming school, also known as Wang Xue and Xue Xin, as a school of Confucianism, can be traced back to Mencius at the earliest, which is a kind of Confucianism developed in Wang Shouren. 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 Yi and Zhu's method of seeking "reason" with things. Because things are endless and tiring, he advocates "conscience" and seeks "reason" from his own heart. Reason is in people's minds and transformed into the universe.
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About the author:
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.
In the twelfth year of Hongzhi (1499), he was a scholar, and served as the minister of punishments, the secretariat of Yicheng in Longchang, Guizhou, the magistrate of Luling, the governor of Gannan, and the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. In his later years, he served as an officer of Nanjing Ministry of War, and left the post of Duchayuan. He was named Xinjian Bo for putting down the rebellion and was posthumously named Xinjian Hou during the reign. Shi Wencheng, so later generations are also called Gong.
Together with Confucius, Mencius and Zhu, they are also called "masters of mind".
Wang Shouren's theory "Wang Xue" is the most influential philosophical thought in Ming Dynasty. His academic thoughts spread to China, Japan, Korean Peninsula and Southeast Asia, and his achievements were the best in the next generation. There are so many disciples that they are called Yaojiang School. His articles are broad and prosperous, and there is a natural and unrestrained atmosphere between pen and ink. And Wang Wencheng's Kung Fu book.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Wang Yangming