When we look back at the events that lasted nearly two years from February 1923 to the end of 1924? Debate between science and metaphysics? Under the current circumstances, we can see that under the criticism of the new ideological trend, Confucianism is almost at a loss whether it is Marxism or positivism. Especially when? Scientists? What happened when the cause of China's difficulties at that time was attributed to the consequences of Confucianism? Metaphysical ghost? Under the top hat, Confucianism is here? Academic? In the name debate, I was exhausted and couldn't move. This is the new culture movement? Down with Kongjia Store? Since then, the intelligentsia has carried out the most thorough liquidation of Confucianism in academic theory.
Here, we can deeply feel that in the face of the pressure of the national survival crisis, Confucianism began to lose its language. However, this is not the end. In the continuous anti-traditional movement, the greater embarrassment of Confucian culture lies in its large-scale elimination in the civil grassroots social structure.
Do we still remember that in our parents' childhood, based on one ethnic group? Old? what's up Resentment? ,? Broken old four? The movement has been vigorously launched throughout the country. Various cultural relics formed by Confucian China in the long process of cultural accumulation were largely destroyed, and various grass-roots social organizations of Confucianism quickly disintegrated, and even the human relations that Confucianism has always attached importance to were abandoned, including the most precious family ties between people.
However, it can not be ignored that the continuous anti-Confucianism movement has not crushed all Confucian intellectuals, and there is still the inheritance of modern Confucianism in our culture. After the founding of New China, the spiritual inheritors of this line left their hometown and went into exile, becoming real wandering souls. Modern neo-Confucianism, which is now quite large, is the most remarkable representative of the unification of Confucian spirit in modern society. But in my opinion, it is Qian Mu, a famous historian, who can best embody the wandering characteristics of Confucianism.
Arouse? Mission?
In an article commemorating Ness, Yu Yingshi said, Mr. Qian Mu? Evocation for the old country all your life? .
1926, under the recommendation of Gu Jiegang, Qian Mu published the article "Chronicle of Liu's Father and Son". This paper convincingly proves that the pre-Qin Confucian classics were not forged by solid textual research. This unknown scholar used this to correct the excessive proliferation of Kang Youwei's "New Classics Examination"? Doubt about ancient times? Tendency, thus reversing the long-term study of medieval history? This is unfounded? Serious consequences. Qian Mu, a rural teacher with no education and no teacher, began to be known by mainstream intellectuals.
In the turbulent times, Qian Mu constantly experienced various spiritual events of cultural construction in his life: the New Culture Movement; What have we mentioned? Debate between science and metaphysics? ; Wang Guowei's cultural double suicide; War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (a spiritual event of cultural construction in terms of its national spirit) and so on. In the deep heart of a person who has deep feelings for Confucianism and is full of enthusiasm for the fate of Confucianism, every spiritual event of cultural construction is a severe soul tear. After experiencing such a series of soul tears, Mr. Qian Mu plunged into the sea of ancient books in Wang Yang and made unremitting exploration? The true spirit of old Confucianism? !
Don't think that if you get into that pile of old paper, you won't really care, but you will delimit in an established chess piece? Garden? That's right.
During his stay in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, faced with the deep national crisis, Qian Mu wrote a two-volume Outline of National History, looking for historical evidence of China's immortality. The impassioned words in the preface are still touching to read today, and some of them can be recited by people of many nationalities during the long overseas exile, although only one scholar, Qian Mu, consciously shouldered the responsibility? Evocation for the old country? The mission of. Qian Mu loved Confucianism and founded Xinya Academy in Hong Kong. At the beginning of the Academy's establishment, the conditions were very difficult, the school building was very simple, there was no library in the school, long tables were filled with school offices, and there were not many students enrolled, only more than 50 people (say 10). With the persistence of traditional Confucian scholars, firm confidence in the spirit of Confucianism and deep affection for China culture, Qian Mu and several people with the same spirit silently stuck to a barren corner.
And it is the corner of this barren land that has developed into? The true spirit of old Confucianism? A sacred place. Under the impact of the mighty wave of modernization, Xinya Academy has become the spiritual home of modern Confucianism wandering around the world.
This is not a cultural immigrant mentality! Facing the hardships of Qian Mu's life? Evocation? Mission, in the face of his firm belief in Confucianism, the creed of Song Confucianism rings in our ears again here:
? Make a heart for heaven and earth, make a life for the people, link the past with the future, and create peace for all generations. ?