The Historical Wisdom in Ancient China's Educational Discourse System——An Investigation Focusing on the Southern Song Dynasty Scholar Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism
The excellent traditional culture in Chinese education is the cultural root for the construction of the discourse system of Chinese pedagogy.Beginning with the"Declaration of Chinese Culture in the Tang Dynasty,"expounded by the Tang Dynasty scholar Han Yu(768-824)in his essay Yuan Dao(Fundamental Principles and Moral Norms of Confucianism),Confucian scholars blazed the cultural path of constructing a China-based educational discourse system.As a master of Neo-Confucianism,the Southern Song Dynasty scholar Zhu Xi(1130-1200)focused on the theories of the"Principle of Nature"and"Confucian orthodoxy,"and ultimately constructed the discourse system of Neo-Confucianism,which not only achieved the Confucianism-reviving dream that originated from Han Yu's theories,but also re-established the discourse power from the doctrine of Confucian education in ancient cultural life.He integrated the orthodoxy by Confucius,Mencius,Cheng Yi and Cheng Hao into the classical texts focusing on Jin Si Lu(Selected Works on the Major Issues of Practical Significance to Daily Life)and Si Shu Ji Zhu(A Commentary on Such Major Confucian Classics as the Great Learning,the Doctrine of the Mean,the Analects of Confucius,and the Works of Mencius)and individuals'practice of self-cultivation aiming at strengthening self-cultivation,family management and country governance and placating the common people under heaven,thus developing the habit of learning the Confucian orthodoxy in a proper order and the skills of self-cultivation rooted in the consciousness of individual life.Focusing on Zhu Xi's thoughts on Neo-Confucianism,this study explores the historical wisdom in ancient China's educational discourse system,and aims to interpret and analyze such interrelated elements as Confucian orthodoxy,texts and practice so as to elucidate a historically-generated,cognizable,positive and referable education-related cultural heritage,and understand the true meaning of the construction of the discourse system of Chinese education and the Chinese soul of Chinese pedagogy.
Zhu XiChinese cultureneo-ConfucianismConfucianismeducational discourse system
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