The Four Steps to the Sky

After Fu Sinian listened to several lectures, he commented on Hu Shi: Although this man doesn't read much, he is on the right path, so you can't make trouble.So Hu Shi stayed in the Philosophy Department of Peking University.

Hu Shi liked to talk about ink very much. He thought that in order to know the sequence of the teaching and evolution of a school of theory, it is necessary to study the era when this school of theory came into being and developed.Now when we talk about Mozi's theory, when is the prophet Mozi born?The idea of ​​universal love has become the morality of Hu Shi's life.

Hu Shi also believed that the relationship between heaven and man was the root doctrine of Confucianism in the Han Dynasty, which was influenced by Mozi's will of heaven.

In 1921, Liang Qichao published his work

Therefore, Master Yinshun's research results benefited from Hu Shi's previous contributions.Hu Shi said: For more than 1000 years, almost no one knew the position of Shenhui in religious history. There is nothing more unfair in history than this.

In 1974, the scholar Liu Tianshengshan collected Hu Shi's speeches, manuscripts, letters, etc. and compiled them into "Hu Shi Xuean".

In 1926, Hu Shi was sent to England to participate in the meeting of the Sino-British Boxer Indemnity Committee, and by the way, he went to the British Museum and the National Library of Paris to search for the historical materials of the Dunhuang scrolls stolen by Stein and Pelliot.

When Hu Shi arrived in Paris, Fu Sinian, who was studying at the University of Berlin at that time, also came to Paris to live with Hu Shi to study the Dunhuang scrolls.

Hu Shi admitted that many of his ideas were influenced by Fu Sinian.Basically, Hu Shi’s research on Buddhism is to affirm the gradual cultivation theory of Shenxiu of the Northern School and deny Huineng’s sudden enlightenment theory of the Southern School, and to prove that the so-called story of the Sixth Patriarch Altar Sutra and the Fifth Patriarch Hongren passing on Huineng’s dharma robe is just Huineng’s disciple Shenhui monk The myth fabricated by competing with Beizong for the support of the royal family.

In 1942, after Hu Shi resigned as ambassador to the United States, he began to pay attention to the research of "Shui Jing Zhu". In the next 20 years, he spent a lot of energy on the research of "Shui Jing Zhu" edition.

The so-called "Shui Jing Zhu" case refers to the fact that some scholars have accused Dai Zhen of stealing Zhao Yiqing's "Shui Jing Zhu" research results for more than 100 years.In this regard, there are generally two views in the academic circles: one is that Dai Zhen plagiarized Zhao Yiqing's results; the other is that Zhao Yiqing, Quan Zuwang, and Dai Zhen have independently researched UL and achieved roughly the same results.

In more than ten years, Hu Shi collected more than 40 editions of "Shui Jing Zhu", copied more than 100 long chapters and some textual research, and used thousands of evidences to turn almost all the so-called Dai Zhen plagiarized Zhao Yiqing's "Shui Jing Zhu". Annotated by the school's unjust case.But some scholars think it is a waste of effort.