Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 428 Debate between Neo-Confucianism and Psychology

Blaise was a little confused.

Daming does not seem to lack insightful academics?Although I just listened to a few words, the opinions expressed by these two scholars prove that they are very knowledgeable.

At this time, a third person expressed his opinion.

Boym continued to translate and said: "The third theory is that the law of operation exists in things. There are things first, and then there are laws of operation. Without things, there will be no laws of operation. He also believes that the origin of all things is It is qi, gold, wood, water, fire, earth, and the five elements are nothing but the externalization of qi, and they are all just a form of qi."

Blaise listened even more admiration, these are academic masters ah.

The ancient Greek theory only had four elements: water, fire, earth, and air. Daming actually believed that there were five elements?No, I have to ask these scholars for advice on this aspect.

At that moment Blaise asked Boym, "Father, are these professors from the Royal Academy of Ming Dynasty?"

"Professor? How many of them do you think?" Boym pointed to the three diners at the next table, and then said with a smile, "Oh no, they are not professors from the Royal Academy of Ming Dynasty, but just three porters."

"Porter?" Blaise asked blankly, "What is a porter? Another name for a lecturer?"

Before Boym could answer, a merchant came in through the door of the food shop and asked loudly, "Is there any porter in there? I need three porters to pick up six hundred catties of goods and go to Caochangmen wharf."

"Yes, yes, we'll take it." The three diners at the next table jumped up.

Then, Blaise watched the three diners rushing out of the restaurant with a dazed expression. When they arrived on the street, they picked up three loads of goods with a pole and walked far away with difficulty.

"Bryce, did you see that?"

Boym said, "That's what they do."

"Is this a nobleman's servant?" Blaise asked incredulously, "A servant also has such advanced knowledge?"

"I don't know about that either." Boym shook his head. When he left Nanjing last year, there was no such thing. How could it be less than a year, and everything in Nanjing in front of him felt so strange to him?
Not only is the market more prosperous and the flow of people more dense,
The key is that the conversations of the people in Nanjing are also very different.

Soon, the guy brought over steamed cakes and rice cake soup.

Blaise and the others may have been starving, or maybe they really thought it was delicious. They all ate the steamed cakes and rice cake soup like a storm, but they encountered a little trouble when eating rice cake soup, because they hadn't learned how to use chopsticks yet. In the end, I grabbed the food with my hands, which attracted the surprised eyes of other diners.

After dinner, Boym continued to walk forward with Bryce and his party.

Finally came to Gongyuan Street, and saw row upon row of mansions on both sides of the Qinhuai River.

Wallace and more than 30 young Westerners were completely shocked. Although this is an architectural style completely different from Western classical style, it does not affect their appreciation of Eastern architectural art at all, because the aesthetics are similar. The beauty of the East is also beautiful in the East, and the architectural aesthetics of the East is also beautiful in the eyes of Westerners.

Therefore, when graffiti with a few lines is regarded as a world-famous painting, it is just deception, but there are many deceptions. Not only Eastern people believe it, but even Westerners themselves believe it. If you don’t believe it, you don’t know how to appreciate beauty.

But more than 30 young people including Blaise still retain pure aesthetic appreciation.

The overlapping buildings, the upturned cornices, the exquisite brackets, carved beams and painted buildings, and the looming rockery higher than the courtyard wall simply make these young people dizzy.

If only one or two buildings are so beautiful, that's all.
The key is that a street and a whole building are so beautiful.

"God." Blaise said with emotion, "The Champs Elysees is not so luxurious, the buildings here are really too luxurious, the people who live here must be the royal family of Ming Dynasty, right priest?"

"The royal family of the Ming Dynasty did not live here." Boym smiled and said, "The royal family of the Ming Dynasty lived in another city in the north, and the prosperity of that city was no less than Nanjing, especially the residence of the royal family, the Forbidden City. , that is the real master of oriental architectural art, you must go and see it if you have the opportunity in the future.”

"Why the future?" Wallace said, "We want to see it right away."

"Not now." Boym shook his head and said, "Because that city has been occupied by barbarians, His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty is planning to take back the capital, so he will spend a lot of money to invite you to come to Daming, he just wants you The arrival of Da Ming can improve the academic level of Da Ming in various disciplines, making Da Ming stronger than before."

"But Daming's academic level is already very high." Blaise said dejectedly.

"It seems that we are no longer needed, Father. I think we must have come in vain this time."

While talking, several scholars in t-shirts walked by, arguing fiercely.

"All water appears in one month, and all water is captured by the moon in one month. Ten thousand is one, and one is ten thousand. From this, it can be seen that your mind is all things, and all things are minds. It is wrong, and things are things. Whether you have a heart or not, it is there, and no matter whether you are sad or desperate, things are still things."

"Distortion, this is the biggest misinterpretation of Yangming's philosophy of mind."

"If you say I misunderstood, then you can give a correct explanation."

"Listen carefully, the heart mentioned in Yangming's mind theory is not just a simple human heart."

"Mr. Yangming said that mind is reason and mind is matter, which refers to the essence of this world. What he means is that everything in this world is composed of mind. People are like this, things are like this, and everything in this world is like this. "

"Mr. Yangming tried to tell his disciples during his lectures that there is only this enlightenment among the heavens and the earth."

"The heart is the spiritual light of good fortune, and also the spiritual light of all things. These spiritual lights are born in nature, become ghosts and gods, and they all come from here. They really have nothing to do with things. Can you understand me when I say that?"

"Leave aside this matter for the time being. If you Yangming's mind is learning to lie and speak to conscience, then everyone can be a Yao and Shun. This statement is really rebellious and rebellious. If this is the case, isn't it true that a foolish man and a foolish woman can also become saints?"

"However, if you can develop conscience and unite knowledge and action, then a foolish man and woman can also be a saint."

Hearing the heated debate of several scholars, while walking away quickly, Blaise became very curious.

"Father." Blaise asked Boym for help again, "What were these people arguing about just now? Is it still a discussion about the origin of the world?"

"Yes." Boym also felt a little dazed.

How is this going?It seems that the whole of Nanjing is discussing Neo-Confucianism and Yangming Mind?
Blaise asked again, "Father, can you translate what they had just argued?"

From memory, Boym roughly translated the debates of several scholars to Blaise and others.

After listening to the translation, Blaise and others felt that the three views were shattered, so that the conscience and the unity of knowledge and action, everyone can become a saint, even a fool and a fool can become Jesus?Become a Madonna?God, this is crazy.

Boym almost went mad, these heretics should all be hanged.

"Selling newspapers, selling newspapers, selling newspapers!" A seven or eight-year-old child suddenly galloped along Gongyuan Street from the front with a bulging cloth pocket, waving a newspaper in his hand.

"Selling newspapers, selling newspapers, selling newspapers! Yao Jiang and Huang Xiaozi published an article in Huangming Times to refute Neo-Confucianism!"

"This is a newspaper?" Blaise was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously took out a livre from his pocket and handed it to the newsboy, and then said in French, "Please give me a copy."

The livre is a silver coin minted in France.

The size and specification are not much different from silver dollars.

But the newsboy shook his head in embarrassment, unable to find it.

Fortunately, there was Boym, who took out a handful of copper coins.

The newsboy took two copper coins from Boym's palm, and then stuffed a thick copy of the Huangming Times into Boym's hand. Blaise and other young people immediately surrounded him.

It's a pity that only Blaise can barely understand.

On the way to Daming, Blaise followed Boym to study Chinese hard.

I have studied hard for more than half a year, and now I have no problems with the initial reading, but I can't listen to it, and I can't speak Mandarin, so I asked Boym to help translate it.

Browsing the newspaper for a while, Blaise was extremely keenly aware that Daming seemed to be staging a super-large-scale debate. From the reading between the lines, it seemed that the "Confucianism" faction and the "Xinology" faction were engaged in a fierce debate. , and the Huangming Times is the position of "heart learning".

Bryce came to life all of a sudden.

Because he is most interested in this kind of debate.

The reason why Europe was able to get out of the dark Middle Ages was to rely on one debate after another, which finally completely destroyed the shackles of the Roman Church on academic thought, and then there was the Renaissance.

Is this the eve of the Renaissance that caught up with the Ming Dynasty?

In fact, it is almost the same. This scolding war, which started from the Chongzhen imperial edict to keep pace with the times, has completely evolved into a large-scale debate between Neo Confucianism and Psychology.

Neo-Confucianism and Psychology took Hanlin Daily and Huangming Times as their respective theoretical fronts, and launched a fierce debate. After several months of debate, the two sides argued that the public is right and the woman is right, and no one can refute the other, but Jiangnan Shilin and even the entire Jiangnan people were mobilized.

Even when traffickers and pawns sit down to chat, they talk about the difference between Neo-Confucianism and Psychology.

As a result, a large-scale exploration of the origin of all things in the world was vigorously launched in Daming. With this exploration, it must be the liberation of the mind, and another liberation of the mind is coming soon.

But Boym and Blaise arrived just at this time.

"Father, it seems that it is really the right time to come to Daming. I like Daming." Blaise couldn't help saying, "We will have the honor to participate in an ongoing debate and the upcoming Renaissance."

"The impending renaissance?" Other young people also came interested.

Most of these young people are leaders in their respective fields and are extremely active in their thinking.

(End of this chapter)