His family has been an official for generations, and his great-grandfather Cheng Xizhen was appointed as the foreign minister of the Ministry of Finance and Security, and his grandfather Cheng Hao was appointed as the magistrate of Huangpi County, and he was awarded the title of "Fuyi Tongguan" and died in the county. My father was too young to go home, so he lived in Huangpi. He used to be a commandant of Huangpi County, and later a doctor of Taizhong. When Cheng Cheng was born, his father was the magistrate of Huangpi County. He was deeply influenced by his family since childhood, especially by his father Cheng Jun in political thought, and was famous for his non-Wang Anshi's new law.
In the second year of Jiayou in the Northern Song Dynasty (1057), he was promoted to Jinshi, and successively served as the master book of Zhu Jun, the master book of Shangyuan County, the golden city order of Zezhou, the prince Zhongyun, the censor, the wine tax supervisor of Ruzhou, the judge of Zhenning Army and the official of Zongning Temple.
At the beginning of God's reign, he served as an imperial adviser. Because Wang Anshi's political views are not consistent with Cheng Yi's profile, he has not been reused, so he devoted himself to academics. Song Shiyuan said: "I have the ambition to seek Tao. It has flooded many schools, and it has been in and out for decades, and it has been returned to the' Six Classics'. " Initiating "Luo Xue" with his younger brother Cheng Yi laid the foundation of Neo-Confucianism. In terms of education, Cheng Yi introduced and successively set up schools in Songyang and Fugou, devoted to educational research. His works are quite huge, forming a set of educational ideology. Cheng Hao pointed out that the purpose of education is to cultivate saints. "The gentleman's learning, must first learn the sage. Not saints but their own people have been abandoned. " The filial piety is filial piety, and the younger brother's is the younger brother. It's just a saint. "That is to say, the highest purpose of education is to make the educated follow the laws of nature, be kind to the people, love things, and abide by feudal ethics. Learning the Analects of Confucius and Mencius is "knowledge". " What is ridicule when you read The Analects of Confucius and Mencius without knowing it? "The University and the Doctrine of the Mean are also indispensable." The way of a university lies in its virtue and understanding. "And the doctrine of the mean" heaven also, not very clever, not the doctrine of the mean ". In short, education must take Confucian classics as teaching materials and Confucian ethics as the basic content of education. Cheng Hao also suggested that reading should aim at "explaining meaning and principle" and pay attention to reading methods. It is a great misfortune for scholars to "study on the premise of being poor and practical" and not "get stuck at the end of the chapter and sentence". Cheng Hao's educational thought, like his Neo-Confucianism, has a far-reaching influence on later generations. Later generations set up shrines or academies where he gave lectures to commemorate the origin of studying.
In the first year of Jiayou, Song Renzong (1056), Ercheng Temple was established in the place where the Book of Changes was published in Shi Jing (now on the left side of the Wanfo Pagoda in Kaifeng, Henan). In the 20th year of Chenghua in Ming Dynasty (1489), Li Yan, the governor of Henan Province, built the Daliang Academy in Ercheng Temple and dedicated Ercheng in the lecture hall. In addition, Songyang Academy was established to commemorate Cheng Er. "Preface to Songyang Academy" said: "Songyang Academy, the place where books were collected in the Song Dynasty, was free for the second class and gave lectures with a group of disciples".
In the 13th year of Jiading, Song Ningzong (1220), Cheng Hao was named "pure man" and Cheng Yi was named "righteous man". In the first year of Li Zongchun (124 1), Cheng Hao was named "Henan Bo", Cheng Yi was named "Yichuan Bo" and "worshiped Confucius Temple". In the first year of Yuan Mingzong-Shunzhi (1330), Cheng Hao was made a duke, and Cheng Yi was made a duke. In the sixth year of Jingtai, Ming Daizong (1455), the imperial edict took Yanzi (namely Yan Yuan) as an example to build Liangcheng Temple, with more than 60 rooms, including Queli, Qianhoudian and other rooms. The eulogy praised Liang Cheng for "clarifying orthodoxy, raising gentle people, being sages of past generations, and being good to my children and grandchildren". In the twenty-five years of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty, Cheng Cheng became a Confucian and became a saint, ranking above Confucius and other Han and Tang Confucians. The following year, Emperor Kangxi gave a plaque of "Learning to be Excellent and Being an Official".
Cheng Cheng's works include Suicide Letter from Cheng Family School in Henan Province, Foreign Letters from Cheng Family School in Henan Province, Collected Works of Mr. Ming Dow, Collected Works of Mr. Yichuan, Essence of Cheng Cheng's Speech, Jing Shuo and so on. And Cheng Yi has another book, The Book of Changes. Cheng's theory was later inherited and developed by Zhu and other philosophers in the Southern Song Dynasty and became the "Cheng-Zhu" school.
Cheng Hao-related information A brief introduction to Cheng Hao Cheng Hao (1032- 1085) was a philosopher and educator in the Northern Song Dynasty. Bochun is called Mr. Ming Dow by scholars. Luoyang (now Henan) people. Jiayou Jinshi supervised the royal expedition for Prince Zhongyun during Zongshen's reign. Oppose Wang Anshi's New Deal. Once with his brother Cheng Yi ... Cheng Hao's life details. The Cheng Hao family has been an official for generations. He was born in Huangpi County, Wuhan City, Hubei Province. His great-grandfather Cheng Xizhen was a member of the official department of Shangshu, and his grandfather Cheng Hao was the magistrate of Huangpi County. He was a gift from Kaifuyi and the official department of the Third Division, and died in this county. Father Cheng Jun is too young to come back ... Details Cheng Hao's main achievement Cheng Hao's main achievement is his Neo-Confucianism. Cheng Hao and his brother Cheng Yi are the main founders of Neo-Confucianism in Song Dynasty, and they are called "the second generation of Cheng" in the world. Although Cheng's theory is different in some aspects, the basic content is the same. Cheng Hao's inheritance influenced Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi's inheritance of Zhang Zai's thought and theory to a certain extent, and had a great influence on the construction and development of their ideological system. However, Cheng Cheng's thought is more of his own innovation, but the anecdote of his Luo brothers Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi (1 … details) in Cheng Hao: during the period of 1068- 1078 (Xining, Song Shenzong), Cheng Hao, a Luoyang native who served as the suggestion, broke a pile in a few words when he was a magistrate in Jincheng, Shanxi. Details after coffin burial ... Anecdotal legend of Cheng Haozhong: What happened in the world is not a private matter. During Cheng Hao's tenure as an imperial envoy in Beijing, it coincided with Song Shenzong's arrangement for Wang Anshi to carry out the "Xining Reform" throughout the country. Once the "Xining Reform" was introduced, it immediately aroused the opposition of many scholars. Among the literati in the Northern Song Dynasty, even if they opposed the political reform ... details Cheng Hao anecdote legend: The imperial censor did not know that he had eaten Xining for two years (1069), Song Shenzong accepted the recommendation of the imperial censor Zhongcheng, and promoted Cheng Hao to Prince Zhongyun, who also had the right to supervise the imperial censor. The censor is an official whose duty is to persuade the emperor and picket officials. But for the scholar-officials, Cheng Hao's later comments on Cheng Hao's and Cheng Yi's thoughts on Confucian Classics took Confucian Classics as the basic program, and put forward the philosophy of heaven on the basis of the study of Confucian Classics, which completed the transformation from ethical Confucianism to philosophical Confucianism, and was also a … detail in the history of Confucian Classics.