Cheng Hao, a poet in Song Dynasty

Bochun, Ming Dow, was born in Luoyang in the Song Dynasty. Cheng Yi and his brothers are called "Cheng Er" in the world. His family has been an official for generations, and his great-grandfather Cheng Xizhen was appointed as a member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Shangshu Province. His grandfather Cheng Hao presented the third secretary of history to Kaifu instrument, and his father Cheng Jun was an official and a doctor in Taizhong. Influenced by family studies since childhood, especially by his father Cheng Jun, he is famous for his non-Wang Anshi's new law. After the promotion of Jinshi, the calendar officials were the master book of Jingzhao House, the master book of Shangyuan County of Jiangning House and the order of Zezhou Jincheng. At the beginning of God's reign, he served as an imperial adviser. Because of his disagreement with Wang Anshi's political views, he was not reused, so he devoted himself to academics. Song Shiyuan said: "I have the ambition to seek Tao. It is rampant in various factions, and people have been released for decades, returning to the' Six Classics' and then getting it. " Initiating "Luo Xue" with his younger brother Cheng Yi laid the foundation of Neo-Confucianism. In education, he set up schools in Songyang and Fugou successively, and devoted himself to educational research. He wrote a lot of books and formed 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. If you are not a saint but for yourself, you will abandon it. " Filial piety is filial piety, and younger brother is younger brother, so it is only a saint. "That is to say, the highest purpose of education is to make the educated follow the laws of nature, love 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? "Great Learning and The Doctrine of the Mean cannot be neglected." The way of a university is to be well-known and knowledgeable, and The Doctrine of the Mean is not as brilliant as 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 in Song Renzong (1056), Ercheng Temple was built in the place where Shi Jing taught the Book of Changes (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. "Preface to the Records of Songyang Academy" said: "Songyang Academy, the place where books were collected in the Song Dynasty, had a free time and gave lectures with a group of disciples". His works were collected by later generations as Cheng Ercheng's suicide note, including Cui Yan, Zhu's suicide note (the original book of Cheng Ercheng's quotations), Waishu and Cheng Hao's anthology.