People from Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi and Henan (now Luoyang, Henan), also known as "Luo Xue", are closely related to "Guan Xue" created by Zhang Zai at the same time, and their Neo-Confucianism has a great influence on later generations. Zhu in the Southern Song Dynasty inherited and developed their theory.

Cheng Hao (1032- 1085) was born in the first year and died in the eighth year of Yuanfeng. The word Bochun. Scholars call Mr. Ming Dow. Cheng Yi (A.D. 1033- 1 107), a native of Ming Dow, Song Renzong, died in the first year of Song Huizong Daguan. Uncle Zheng. Scholars call Mr. Yichuan. ?

Cheng Hao and his younger brother Cheng Yi were deeply influenced by family studies since childhood, especially by their father Cheng Hao. Cheng Hao was famous for opposing Wang Anshi's new law. Both of them studied under Zhou Dunyi and were founders of Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties. They are known as "two processes" by the world, and they are famous Neo-Confucianism and educators in the Northern Song Dynasty.

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Cheng's psychological thought is rich and plays an important role in their ideological system, so it is called "the study of mind and body" or "the study of mind and nature" by later generations. Their highest philosophical category is "reason", which, as an absolute noumenon, derives everything in the universe; Their highest psychological category is "mind", which, as the equivalent of "reason", produces a human form: "Being is the mind, and preparation is the form."

Neo-Confucianism had a great influence on later generations, and Zhu in the Southern Song Dynasty inherited and developed their theories. Their psychological thoughts are mainly found in Suicide Notes, Selected Works and Jing Shuo, all of which are included in Book II published by Zhonghua Book Company 198 1 year.

In terms of style of study, Cheng Cheng put forward the idea of "being poor in classics for practical use", which broke through the conventional research methods that Sinology dared not think independently, and was a great progress. Of course, after Neo-Confucianism was later defined as the dominant ideology, it bound people's minds for a long time, hindered the opening of intellectuals' minds and hindered the development of natural science, and its negative side could not be ignored.

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