Fuzhou, 28 Oct (China News Service) Title: Scholars from mountain chiefs on both sides of the strait look for "Zhu" traces: Cultural living water is in the same vein
China News Service reporter Lin Chunyin
On Kinmen Island, Zhu Xi and Yannan Academy are highly respected by local compatriots. In the eyes of Yang Shuqing, the president of Yannan Academy, who has won three Golden Tripod Awards in Taiwan, Zhu Xi's "cultural living water" flows from Zhu Zi's hometown of Youxi in Fujian to Kaoting Academy and Bailudong Academy in Wuyi Mountain, and flows to Yuelu Academy, a thousand-year-old academy.
On the 28th, the Fifth Cross-Strait College Forum was held in Fuzhou Zhengyi College. Yang Shuqing's speech received a warm response from the mountain chiefs on both sides of the strait.
Fang Yanshou, director of the Institute of Zhuzi Culture at Fuzhou University of Technology, is studying the transmission path of Zhuzixue from Fujian to Taiwan. He held that during the Ming and Qing dynasties, under the policy orientation of "Minxue" governing Taiwan, Zhu Zixue came from Fujian to Taiwan along with the academy education system and official Confucianism, forming a fine tradition of teaching in Mintai Academy.
Jian Yiguang, a Taiwanese associate professor at the Institute of Classics of Fujian Normal University, believes that Zhu Zixue's dissemination in Taiwan also relies on books in addition to the teachings of teachers, of which the books engraved by Zhang Boxing Zhengyitang and zuo Zongtang's "Zhengyitang Quanshu" are the most influential. To this day, the Complete Book of Zhengyitang is still in the collections of Taipei Library, Fu Sinian Library, National Taiwan University and Tunghai University.
Huang Baihan, a Taiwanese associate professor at the Song Ming Science Research Center of Wuyi University, pointed out in his speech at the forum that the enlightenment of the traditional college spirit to contemporary general education lies in the humanistic spirit of college education that emphasizes personality cultivation and moral practice, echoing the concept of contemporary general education pursuing whole-person education. He hoped that the two sides of the strait would jointly study Zhuzi and enrich the connotation and depth of humanistic spiritual education.
The thick cultural accumulation of the millennium has attracted many young Scholars from Taiwan, such as Huang Baihan and Jian Yiguang, to come across the sea to look for "Zhu" traces. Nine years ago, after obtaining a doctorate in Taiwan, Huang Baihan, as the secretary general of the Taiwan Zhuzi Studies Association, came to northern Fujian to participate in the "Zhuzi Road" study activities, and took root. He told reporters that here, we can continue to study Zhu Zixue in depth, and we can preach and teach like Zhu Zi.
Today, the cross-strait college alliance composed of 10 colleges in Fujian and 8 colleges in Taiwan has been established for three years. Zheng Zhiming, president of Zhengyi College, was officially elected as the first rotating president of the Cross-Strait College Alliance on the same day, and the secretariat of the alliance is permanent Zhengyi College. Zheng Zhiming said that efforts will be made to promote the sharing of teachers, personnel training, academic exchanges, and dissemination and promotion of colleges on both sides of the strait.
"As a place to turn the people into customs, today's academies should regain the Zhuzi doctrine, inherit their social responsibilities, and improve the social atmosphere." Zhu Jieren, a tenured professor at the Institute of Ancient Books of East China Normal University and honorary president of the Chinese Historical Documents Research Association, pointed out that the basic concepts and methods of Children's Mongolian Books compiled by Zhu Xi for "turning the people into customs" are still applicable to the present.
Lin Shouqin, deputy director of the Fujian Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, told reporters that Fujian will increase cross-strait cultural tourism cooperation, deepen non-governmental grass-roots exchanges, and promote the joint inheritance and promotion of traditional Chinese culture on both sides of the strait, so that the protection and development of shuyuan culture and Zhuzi culture will enter a new realm. (End)
Source: China News Network