When it comes to the Song Dynasty, I believe many people will first think of the famous painting "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival", Song Huizong's thin gold style, Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism, Yue Fei, an anti-gold hero, graceful and restrained words, bold and unconstrained words, etc. The Song Dynasty is the peak of China's cultural development, but there are also some corners that whitewash the peace. Mr. Qian Mu once described it as "poor and intractable, weak and powerless". In order to understand the whole picture of Zhao and Song more comprehensively, these eight words can't be explained.
Ten aspects of Feng Ya's Aesthetics in Song Dynasty introduced people's life and aesthetics in Song Dynasty from ten aspects, such as founding the country, calligraphy and painting, thoughts, poems and elegant collections, and once again showed the life aesthetics and spiritual pursuit in Song Dynasty through easy-to-understand language.
Among the ten heavyweight scholars, Yang Lihua and Yang Zhishui are well-known scholars with equal works.
Starting with Deng Xiaonan's re-understanding of the Song Dynasty, this paper introduces the general situation of the founding of the People's Republic of China, economic development and cultural development in the Song Dynasty. With the development of culture towards popularization and secularization, Ci began to shift its focus downwards and extended to ordinary lanes, appealing to both refined and popular tastes.
The second chapter is written by Yang Lihua, a professor of philosophy at Peking University. He described the development of Neo-Confucianism and the revival of Confucianism. Finally, the article affirms the contribution of Zhu Neo-Confucianism.
Today's people turn pale when they listen to Neo-Confucianism, and "preserving nature and destroying human desires" is criticized by future generations. What about neo-Confucianism?
"Natural justice" originated from Zhuangzi, the Master of Health, but the direct source of actual natural justice is The Book of Rites, the Moon Order: the husband and the things are touching, while people like and hate endlessly, but the things are extreme, and the things are extreme. Man-made things destroy justice, and the poor long for justice. Interpretation and reasoning of Beixi word meaning: in heaven, say nature, in people, reason. Human desire is "improper desire" and "excessive desire", and "justice" and "human desire" are in sharp contrast.
Professor Yang's last article explained the misunderstanding of "preserving nature and destroying human desires", which can solve people's prejudice against Neo-Confucianism.
The introduction of calligraphy and painting, Song porcelain, tea affairs, elegant collections and famous things in the book is also very wonderful and comprehensive. This book is worth reading for understanding the culture of Song Dynasty and China.
Looking at the past today is also looking at the present from the future. Today, let's take a look at the elegance of the Song Dynasty. Can future generations look at today's elegance?