The Academic Status and Evaluation of the Song Confucian Cheng Dachang
Cheng Dachang was a famous scholar of the Southern Song Dynasty.He served as a government official for three dynasties,and was diligent in his studies,authoring many books throughout his life.His academic status was highly evaluated at the time and in later generations.First,Cheng's double identity as a world-renowned Confucian and an important minister in the dissemination of Con-fucianism and its application to the world made up for the lack of practical work in new an scholars,and became the"pioneer"of Xin'an Confucian.Second,Cheng's reckless efforts to learn,to understand the two classics,focusing on the complementarity of Confu-cianism and Taoism,and became the"bridge"between Confucianism and Taoism.Third,Cheng's diligence and pragmatism,political achievements,was known as the country's treasure minister,the quasi-learning,become the academic and personality of the"model".Cheng was not only able to focus on the convergence of Confucianism in academics,but also to carry out the spirit of such convergence in political practice,which was highly praised by the time and later generations.
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