In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, where Gao Lian lived, Cheng Zhu Lixue, who "saved heaven and reason to extinguish people's desires", had imprisoned people for a hundred years. People abhorred this kind of "extinguishing" confinement, and even the emperor who was high above the temple lost interest in this stereotype.
Wang Yangming's "Psychology" came into being and soon replaced "Cheng Zhu Lixue".
The proposition of "Mind Science": "Mind is Heavenly Reason", has begun to pay attention to people's "heart", "heart" is "my Spirit", "My Spirit is the master of the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth", "Without my Spirit, there will be no heaven and earth, ghosts and gods." ”
The dominant "heart" as a person is highlighted.
This is a major turnaround.
Tenri is no longer the first, feel the "heart" of the outside world and become the first.
Wang Yangming did not oppose Tianli and human desires, he advocated "eliminating human desires and preserving Tianli", removing excessive "human desires" and making the "heart" clear.
This view is also more conservative. Among Wang Yangming's later disciples, a more open and liberal school soon developed: the Taizhou School.
The "Taizhou School" carried forward Wang Shouren's idea of mind, taking "heart" as the first, they opposed the restraint of human nature, advocated "natural humanity", "love the body as a treasure", and emphasized "nature and self".
Human nature should obey nature and love itself, then the "all nature" belonging to human beings, including seven emotions and six desires, will be loved and affirmed.
This is the second time in Chinese history after "metaphysics" that it advocates "individuality" and "self-awakening", but it is endowed with more progressive ideas and is called the first true school of ideological enlightenment in Chinese history.
Because of people's hatred of "Cheng Zhu Lixue", the theorists who propagated the religion were snubbed and no one cared about it. The "Taizhou School" was widely accepted in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, leading the entire trend of ideological emancipation in the late Ming Dynasty. The Biography of Ming Shi Rulin records:
"Wang Yangming's disciples have been spread all over the world for more than a hundred years... Jia, Long, and then, believe in Cheng Zhu... There are few people. ”
The time when Gao Lian was born was the time when the "Taizhou School" thought and trend.
Under the trend of thought of the "Taizhou School" affirming "human feelings", those who opposed the religion of science raised a big banner of "love", that is, "love studies".
Doesn't Rigaku believe that human desire is the main cause of social chaos? Sentimentologists, on the contrary, believe that human emotions are the basis for maintaining all things.
Imagine a mother who stays up all night to take care of a sick child, is it ethics and morality that supports her, or emotions for her children?
Obviously, it is the mother's love for the child, such emotions, that give the mother incomparable motivation. Let her have no regrets, no matter how hard she works. That's what love does.
Therefore, the development of society is inseparable from the factor of "love".
The most important thing for theorists to cut off is the "lust" between men and women.
Sensualists oppose the teachings, and the weapon they exalt is the "lust" between men and women.
In the words of the famous "love sect leader" Feng Menglong: "Borrow the true love of men and women to make a pseudo-medicine for the famous religion." ”
Sentimentologists hold up the "love" between men and women. They feel that true feelings from the depths of human nature have unstoppable power and are the best weapon to defeat the teachings.
The more affirmed the role of "love" is, the more absurd the absurd theology of "extinguishing desire" with an abhorrent face, and the more likely it is to be trampled on.
This is the era in which Gao Lian lived, a new cultural trend.
In other words, the era of emotion, as a philosophy, has opened in the field of cultural thought.
Now, they are waiting for a work of art to be produced, with vivid stories to express this trend of thought.
This task was taken over by Gao Lian.
Gao Lian's "Jade Hairpin" is raising the banner of emotion.
He wants to return to mankind the "human desire" that the theologian has taken away, and recognize its naturalness and indeprehensibility.
Gao Lian's "Jade Hairpin" is the first "anti-abstinence" "love science" work that appeared under the trend of erotic thought.
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