We all know that the ancients were more superstitious. It is precisely because the ancient rulers grasped this pedantic and superstitious idea of the people that they implemented the concept of "superstitious governance". And their concept is very simple, that is, the ruler himself is the son of heaven and is arranged to rule them on earth, so they make a "son of heaven" argument. And the people are superstitious because of superstition, coupled with the real power in the hands of the ruler.
This made them really think that the ruler was the son sent by Heaven to rule over them. So they must obey well, otherwise they will anger the heavens, then the heavens will begin to punish people. So the rulers dominated a reign with the help of people's superstitious ideas.
It was in this situation that professionals who accompanied the superstitious industry began to emerge. For example, high monks, gods and nuns, Taoist priests, and xiangshi have emerged. Under the guise of being able to pinch and calculate, they began their career in scenery.
Today, Xiaobian will tell you about a philosopher of the Ming Dynasty. He was gifted and intelligent when he was young, and showed a posture of reading. This made his family very fond of it, thinking that this son had this kind of cognition at a young age, and he would definitely achieve great achievements when he grew up. However, when they had millions of expectations, the child was 5 years old and could not speak.
This can't help but make us deeply suspicious that ordinary children can learn their teeth and teeth at the age of 1, and they can call out to their parents and grandparents at the age of 2. Even if it is better to speak later, it should be able to speak at the age of 3 at the latest. But this child can't speak at the age of 5, can he be a mute? In fact, this child finally spoke after being on demand by a senior monk.
So who is this kid? How did the monk order him? Next, Xiaobian will tell you about it. This child was Wang Yangming, a famous thinker, writer and philosopher of the later Ming Dynasty, whose real name was Wang Shouren. He was a jinshi in the twelfth year of Hongzhi (1499 AD), and later served as the chief of the Punishment Department, Guizhou Longchang Yicheng, Luling Zhi County, Liangguang Governor, Nanjing Bingbu Shangshu, and Du chayuan Zuo Du Yushi.
Throughout his life, he was proficient in Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and other scholarship, and was known as "the master of the painstaking efforts of King Lu", and together with Confucius, Mencius, and Zhu Xi, he was called "Kong, Meng, Zhu, and Wang". He was the most influential philosopher of the Ming Dynasty, and his academic ideas spread to China, Japan, the Korean Peninsula, and Southeast Asia.
It can be said that his doctrine is really influential and contagious. He is very successful in both career and academics, and can be called a big winner in life. But it's such a remarkable figure. When he was a child, he was not very good, as if he had a sense of "late success".
Wang Shouren was born into a prominent family in Yuyao, Zhejiang Province, with his grandfather Wang Tianxu and his father Wang Hua. And his mother, when she was pregnant with him, was more than ten months old before giving birth to him. It is said that before he was born, his grandmother had a dream at night, and in the dream there was a god dressed in jade. She danced in the clouds, holding a naked child in her arms, and slowly descended from the sky to their house.
Wang Shouren was born, and his grandmother told his grandfather about it. His grandfather was ten people who were full of poetry and books, so he gave him a name called "Wang Yun" and built a house for him called "Ruiyun Lou".
Wang Tianshu loved this grandson very much, and whenever he went out, he would take him with him and talk about how cute and smart his grandson was in front of people. And when Wang Tianshu is reading, he will also put his grandson by his side. To his surprise, when he reads, his grandson will come together to read the book. Wang Tianshu was very happy, so he asked Wang Yun what he planned to do when he grew up. However, Wang Tianxu asked for half a day, and Wang Yun just didn't answer.
This made Wang Tianxu sad, and he wondered if his grandson, who he was very optimistic about, would be a mute. He was very reluctant, he never believed that his grandson would be a mute. Therefore, many well-known Langzhong were found to treat Wang Yun, but the group doctors were still helpless after all.
Fortunately, one day, a senior monk came to their house. When Wang Tianxu saw that he was a high monk, he wanted him to show his grandson. And the senior monk touched Wang Yun's head and said, "This is a child, but you have broken the heavens." But don't worry, change your name and you can speak.
When his grandfather heard this, he thought of a name, called "Wang Shouren". Unexpectedly, after Wang Tianxu finished changing his name, Wang Shouren began to speak on the spot. Therefore, his grandfather loved him very much and decided to cultivate him well, so Wang Shouren began his extraordinary life.