Yu Fan of the Qing Dynasty was a very famous and influential scholar at that time. According to records, his ancestors worked as farmers until his grandfather Yu Tingbi's generation began to become a Deqing Wang, and had a genealogy. His great-grandson Yu Pingbo was a famous literary scholar and an expert in the study of red science, who pioneered the "new red science". He also had many famous disciples, such as Zhang Taiyan and Wu Changshuo, who were more influential figures in the later period.
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Speaking of Yu Fan in the Qing Dynasty, we have to mention his idea of "abolishing chinese medicine", he was the first person in modern China to put forward this argument, which caused an uproar at that time. Of course, this statement of his is not nonsense, but a conclusion drawn on the basis of the study of the Emperor's Inner Classics and other classic medical books, and he believes that "abolishing medicine and storing medicine" is the right way, and a series of examples and arguments can be found in his "Abolition of Medicine" and "Medicine Theory" in detail. However, many people believe that the reason why Yu Fan proposed "abolishing medicine and storing medicines" in the Qing Dynasty has a lot to do with his illness and weakness in his later years.
In the Qing Dynasty, Yu Fan's greatest contribution to literature was to change the "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness" to "Seven Heroes and Five Righteousness", and after studying many classics, he deleted and modified the unreasonable plot, increasing the wide popularity of the novel. In addition, he advocated the practical application of scriptures, on the one hand, he respected Mencius's theory of sexual goodness, and on the other hand, he agreed with the moral indoctrination theory of Xunzi, the proposer of the "theory of sexual evil", which shows that he viewed the traditional Chinese concept of human nature from a more inclusive perspective. In addition to his literary achievements, he is also a calligrapher with a very own style, his calligraphy is stable and vigorous, and he wields it freely, and the extension of the stone stele has been passed down to this day.
Works by Yu Fan
Yu Was a prominent scholar of the late Qing Dynasty, whose academic research included scripture, literature, paleography, and calligraphy. He was not only an excellent scholar, but also an excellent teacher, and many famous scholars in modern times have learned from him. Yu Fan devoted his life to research, and left a lot of works, which can be described as broad and profound. There are more than 500 volumes of works that have survived to the present day, collectively known as the "Complete Book of Spring in the Hall".
One of Yu Fan's works was his revision of The Three Heroes and Five Righteousnesses, which he made widely circulated. His study of novels is very thorough, has his own views, but also pays attention to the details of the depiction, if the novels in modern history are reviewed, Yu Fan must be one of them. He himself has a unique point of view of thinking, able to point out the shortcomings of the book, and correct them, and the works that he has edited are even more wonderful and moving. The second of Yu Fan's works is the study of scripture, leaving a wealth of works. He believed that the study of scripture should be "applied through the scriptures", agreed with the teachings of Confucius and Mencius, advocated the integration of the ideas of the two famous masters, actively absorbed the ideas of ancient masters, and as long as it did not conflict with moral indoctrination, he was willing to learn and use them. The broad scope of knowledge has led to his active thinking, and in his writings, many views appear, sometimes even self-denial, which are derived from his "doubtful" position.
His books such as "Ping discussion of the Qunjing Classic", "Ping discussion of the Sons of Zhuzi", and "Examples of Doubts in Ancient Books" are representative works of the late Qianjia School, and "Essays on Chun Zaitang" have collected a lot of literary knowledge and history, which has great reference significance. The third of Yu Fan's works is the work of calligraphy, the stone stele of "Fengqiao Night Berth" is the last calligraphy work before Yu Fan's death, although he is already an elderly man at this time, his works are still magnificent and natural, and are called the masterpiece by posterity. Overall, Yu Fan's works are the essence of his life's thoughts and are worth learning and tasting.
Yu Yu prophesied
Yu Fan was a famous scholar and poet in the late Qing Dynasty. Yu Fan wrote countless works in his lifetime, and at that time Zeng Guofan had special respect for him, and he greatly appreciated his talent and had the grace of knowing him. Because of his upright personality and lack of flexibility, he ended his political career at a very young age. What Yu Fan left the most impressive impression on posterity was the prediction of Yu Fan that he left to the world during his deathbed.
Yu Fan's prophecy was summed up by Yu Fan on the deep foundation of Sinology, mainly referring to the development of the situation in China and the changes in the world pattern in the more than two hundred years after his death. From the prophecies of the previous hundred years, we can see that Yu Yu's prophecies are very accurate. In his predictions, he accurately predicted the political situation in China during the Republic of China period, such as the warlord division and chaos, China's invasion, and the Kuomintang-Communist civil war, which left an extremely deep impression on people.
The second half of Yu's prophecy emphasizes that in the coming period, the world will return to the situation of the feudal princely states, the world will encounter an era of chaos, and the traditional etiquette of ancient China will be able to save the world. At that time, China will drop a strange person, and the people of the whole world will submit to him.
Although it is only a prophecy, from the accuracy of the first half of the prophecy, his prediction is also based on some principles of Zhou Yi, and has a certain degree of credibility. Whether his predictions were accurate or not, his predictions left the world with a suspense. He was a person who desperately wrote books in the late Qing Dynasty, which is also Zeng Guofan's evaluation of him. Both he and Li Hongzhang called Zeng Guofan a teacher, and Zeng Guofan's evaluation of these two beloved disciples was: "Li Hongzhang desperately became an official, and Yu Fan desperately wrote books." It is precisely because of Yu Fan's rigorous academic spirit, concentrated on academic research, and indulged in the study of Sinology that he later had a profound foundation in Sinology and a prophecy he left to the world when he was dying.