On September 30, 1472, the eighth year of Ming Chenghua (1472), Wang Yangming was born in Yuyao County,Shaoxing Province,Zhejiang Province (present-day Yuyao City).
Yuyao is located on the south bank of Hangzhou Bay, with beautiful scenery, siming mountains and Tiantai mountains in the south, Huiji Mountain in the southwest, and the Yao River passes through the county.
Therefore, Yangmingxue is also known as "Yuyao Zhixue" and "Yaojiang Zhixue".
Shaoxing Province belongs to the ancient land of Wuyue, with a warm climate, fertile land and abundant products,
It is a great place for sightseeing and sightseeing, and has been a cultural center in Gangnam since ancient times.
Influenced by the local terroir, Yuyao's culture and art have always flourished,
The wind of retreating from the mysterious and quiet retreat of admiring Taoist immortals prevailed, and talents and celebrities emerged.
There is a Longquan Mountain in Yuyao, where Wang Yangming's father, The Duke of Longshan, once studied.
Wang Yang also taught the scriptures and taught his disciples in the Zhongtian Pavilion on the mountainside tomorrow night,
During the prosperous period, there were as many as three hundred disciples.
Wang Yangming was one of the Four Sages of Yuyao, the other three being Yan Ziling of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhu Shunshui and Huang Zongxi of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
Yan Zi Ling, Ming Guang, Zi Zi Ling,
At a young age, he was famous and studied with Liu Xiu, the Guangwu Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, in Taixue.
After Liu Xiu ascended the throne, he changed his name and surname and disappeared.
Emperor Guangwu was well aware of his talents, remembered to use him, and sent people around to look for him, and finally found it.
The messenger came to the door three times to plead, and only then was he willing to go out of the mountain.
After Yan Ziling arrived in Luoyang, Kyoto, Emperor Guangwu immediately came to visit his lodging, and the two of them slept together at night.
Legend has it that Yan Ziling pressed his foot on emperor Guangwu's stomach after sleeping, which was a crime, but emperor Guangwu defended him:
"He and the tomb of the son of the deceased lie together."
In this way, he admonished his subordinates who tried to rebuke Yan Ziling.
Emperor Guangwu granted Yan Ziling the post of Counselor, but Yan Ziling refused to accept it and still returned to Fuchun Mountain to live a pastoral farming life until he was eighty years old.
The Gao feng liang festival of Yan Zi Ling has won the respect of posterity, and there is still an inscription on Longquan Mountain, which records "Han Gao Shi Yan Zi Mausoleum".
Wang Yangming, young name Yun, later changed his name to Shouren, the character Bo'an, is the founding father of Yangmingxue.
He once built a grass hall in Yangmingdong, Huijishan, and was known as "Mr. Yangming" or "Yangming weng".
Because of his great contribution to the country, he was given the title of Xinjian Bo before his death, and was posthumously awarded the title of Xinjian Hou after his death.
Therefore, he was also known as "Xinjian Bo", "Xinjian Hou" or "Wang Xinjian", also known as "Ming Weng".
Wang Yangming was the eldest son of Wang Hua (Longshan Gong), a Nanjing official, who was obsessed with the "Five Drownings" as a teenager, namely Renxia, Riding Archery, Cizhang, Immortals, and Buddhas.
After the age of thirty-one, he finally realized the inadequacies of Lao Zhuang and Buddhism and turned to Confucianism.
He was a mid-soldier at the age of twenty-eight, and at the age of thirty-five was imprisoned for interceding for the chancellor Dai Milling.
At that time, Dai Milling was impeached by the eunuch Liu Jin, but was put on death row.
Later, Wang Yangming was demoted to Longchang, Guizhou.
It was there that he realized the idea that "mind is reason" and put forward the theory of "unity of knowledge and action".
At the age of thirty-nine, he was appointed to Lulingzhi County, and successively served as the inspector of Nangan Tingzhang and the Shangshu of the Nanjing Bingbu.
During this period, he first quelled the rebellion in the south, and at the age of forty-eight, he quelled the rebellion of King Chenhao of Ning and made great achievements.
However, due to the instigation of Emperor Wuzong's courtiers, Wang Yangming not only did not receive a reward, but was slandered and framed.
At the age of forty-nine, he founded the "To the Conscience" theory and eventually became a generation of Great Confucians.
Zhu Shunshui (Chinese: 朱舜水; pinyin: Zhōshū shōshū), courtesy name Luyu or Shunshui , was a Chinese scholar and poet who settled in Japan.
After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, he traveled to Japan, Jiaotong (present-day Vietnam), devoted himself to reviving the Ming Dynasty, and finally settled in Japan in the second year of the Reign of Manji (1659).
The Confucian Andong Provincial Nunnery of Yanagawa Domain in Kyushu worships Shunshui in Nagasaki and gives half of his own money to support the life of the teacher.
In the fifth year of Kōbun (1665), Chu Shunshui was recruited into Edo (present-day Tokyo) by Tokugawa Mitsukuni, the lord of the Mito Domain, as a "guest teacher", and had a deep influence on Mito Mitsukuni and the Mito school to which he belonged.
Zhu Shunshui was proficient in Cheng Zhu Lixue, also involved in Yangming studies, and was familiar with ancient Chinese, and had a deep influence on Japanese sinology.
He died in Japan at the age of eighty-three.
Portrait of Huang Zongxi.
Huang Zongxi, a great thinker in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, was also a Yuyao person in Shaoxing, which shows the outstanding spirit of the Yuyao people.
Huang Zongxi, the character Taichong, the number Nanlei, the other name Lizhou Mountain people.
His father, Huang Zunsu, was a member of the Donglin Party in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and was persecuted to death by Wei Zhongxian.
When Huang Zongxi was young, he had close contacts with the sons of the Donglin Party, and studied under his father's good friend Liu Niantai (Liu Zongzhou).
After the death of Ming, Huang Zongxi organized young and middle-aged people in his hometown to resist the Qing army, and finally failed.
It is said that at that time, in order to seek reinforcements, Huang Zongxi once traveled to Japan.
After the hope of restoring the Qing Dynasty was dashed, Huang Zongxi wrote the "Ming Yi To Be Visited".
In the book, Huang Zongxi described his ideal dynasty in detail, criticized the absolute monarchy, and clarified the position of democracy.
Huang Zongxi did not serve the Qing Dynasty for the rest of his life, and his son Huang Baijia and disciple Vance later participated in the compilation of the History of ming.
Huang Zongxi inherited the style of study of his predecessor Liu Niantai and was more ideologically inclined to Yangmingxue than Niantai, but he made a harsh criticism of the behavior of the late Yangmingxue addicted to Zen.
Huang Zongxi rejected empty talk, advocated the study of scripture history, and emphasized that academic thinking should be sincere, so he was also known as the "ancestor of Qing Dynasty historiography".
Huang Zongxi wrote a lot of works in his lifetime, and the more famous ones are the "Song YuanXue Case" and the "Ming Confucianism Case" that studied Song Ming's theoretical thought from the perspective of historiography.
Huang Zongxi's teacher Liu Niantai was a scholar of Xinyang Ming, who absorbed a large amount of Cheng Zhu Lixue's thoughts, and did not quite agree with Wang Yangming's idea of conscience as the purpose of learning.
Feeling that sincerity is the purpose of learning, reflecting the importance attached to the ontological vitality of the "conscience" theory.