Huang Zongxi, who has no hands on the self-taught talent, you can guess how advanced his thinking is

Huang Zongxi of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties was the eldest son of Huang Zunsu, one of the "Seven Gentlemen of Donglin", and together with Gu Yanwu and Wang Fuzhi, he was called "the three great thinkers of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties". He put forward the proposition that "the world is the mainstay and the king is the guest", saying that "the rule of chaos under the heavens is not the rise and fall of one surname, but the sorrow and happiness of all the people", and advocated replacing the emperor's "law of one family" with the "law of the world", so as to limit the power of the monarch and ensure the basic rights of the people.

Huang Zongxi is a typical self-taught talent. He resented the study of the imperial examination and wanted to completely reform the system. When he finished reading the books in his family, he borrowed them and copied them. He copied the Niu family's Shixue Building, the Qi family's Tangsheng Hall, the Huang family's Qianqing Zhai, and the Qian family's Daiyun Building, which contained many books. He also often traveled the streets and alleys, looking for books to buy books, and the bookmakers had to carry a bag of books home almost every day. He made a name for himself overnight, and then went out to buy it the next day, so it became a habit.

In his later years, Huang Zongxi preferred to collect books and copy books. He also copied fan's Tianyi Pavilion, Zheng's Congzhu Hall, Cao's Jingti Hall, and Xu's Biography lou collection. He often said to his students: "We should make our hearts clear with books, and we should not lose our minds with playthings!" "

He read many books and wrote many books, and wrote more than 50 kinds of books and more than 300 volumes in his lifetime, the most important of which are "Ming Confucianism Case", "Song Yuanxue Case", "Ming Yi To Be Visited", "Mencius Master's Saying", "Burial System or Question", "Breaking Evil Cults", "Thinking of the Old Record", "YiXue Elephant Number Theory", "Ming Wen hai", "Record of Xingchao", "Present Water Classic", "Datong Calendar Pushing Method", "Siming Mountain Chronicle" and so on.

The above content is excerpted from the book "Interesting Soul Ten Thousand Miles: A Complete Collection of Funny Short Stories of Chinese Literati in Past Dynasties", and the original allusion is from the "Qing Barnyard Banknote Appreciation Class".

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