During the Song Dynasty, culture flourished and poetry and songs became popular. Among them, Cheng Hao is a highly respected poet. His poetry style is elegant and romantic, and his thoughts are profound. He is known as a "cultural master" and a "thinker".
Cheng Hao's life
Cheng Hao, courtesy name Tuizhi and Ertui, was born in Nanchang in the first year of Chongning in the Northern Song Dynasty (1102) and died on the 26th of Shaoxing. year (1156). He was a famous Confucianist, thinker, and writer in the late Northern Song Dynasty. He was also one of the "Second Chengs". He and his younger brother Cheng Yi were collectively known as "Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism" and were known as the "North and South Cheng".
Cheng Hao was smart since he was a child. He had already mastered the Book of Changes at the age of twelve. Later, he extensively studied Confucian classics and became a erudite and talented scholar. He once held an official position, but because he was dissatisfied with the corruption in the officialdom, he left the officialdom and concentrated on studying Confucianism.
Cheng Hao's poetic style
Cheng Hao's poetic style is elegant and elegant. Most of his poems are based on Confucianism, showing profound ideological connotation and superb artistic attainments. His poems are mainly fresh, natural, open-minded and free-spirited, showing his deep thinking and understanding of nature, life and human nature.
Cheng Hao's poetry style has been praised and imitated by many later generations. His representative works include "Feelings of Coming Out of the Fence Gate to Welcome the Coolness at Autumn Night" and "Climbing Chungju Castle Tower", etc.
Cheng Hao’s thoughts
Cheng Hao’s thoughts are mainly reflected in the research and thinking of Confucian classics. He believes that Confucian classics are the crystallization of human wisdom and the cornerstone of human civilization and should be cherished and passed down by the world. He emphasized "investigating things to gain knowledge" and believed that only through practice and observation can we truly understand the world and human beings, thereby achieving the state of "knowing the destiny and realizing the way of heaven".
Cheng Hao's thoughts had a profound impact on later generations. His theory was called "Er-Cheng Neo-Confucianism" and became one of the important schools in the history of ancient Chinese thought.