Wang Yangming and his father Wang Hua live in Beijing. One day, he asked his teacher, "What's the first thing?" The teacher thinks: "Reading is the first ear." Wang Yangming was very disapproving and said, "I'm afraid it's not the first. Let's learn from the sages!" " "
The scholar said that Deng Di represented the opinion of Lang Wanghua, a top scholar, but Wang Yangming didn't think so. Wang Hua is the first in this exam. As the top scholar, he used to be assistant minister of the official department and minister of Nanjing official department. The Da Ming Hui Dian, which participated in the revision, is a precious document that records the basic legal system of Ming Dynasty, especially the administrative regulations.
But unlike his father, Wang Yangming wanted to write to the emperor at the age of fifteen, which led to his father's reprimand. All this shows that this is incompatible with his father's authority. Wang Yangming is a different kind of traditional society in China. He likes the art of war, Buddhism and Taoism, and doesn't like the cautious Confucianism.
The greatness of Wang Yangming's theory of mind should be investigated in the development context from Confucius to Zhu and from Han Dynasty to Song Dynasty. The efforts of Confucius and his disciples, as well as Han Confucianism, gradually turned from the "Five Classics" to the "+Three Classics", and then turned to the meditation and introspection of Song Confucianism. There are too many and inaccurate Thirteen Classics, which are reduced to four books in Zhu. As for the rigidity of Confucianism, it is not Zhu's problem, but his success as an official school.
The dilemma of Zhuzi studies has become a necessary condition for the emergence of Yangming studies. Zhuge incident made Wang Yangming question Zhu's sudden breakthrough and the relationship between knowledge and morality. However, the enlightenment in Longchang and the lonely life in a foreign country gave him a better chance to trigger his inner activities. Finally, he found that there was no need to discuss knowledge that had nothing to do with morality. Of the eight items in University, there are only "comprehensive learning", "integration of knowledge and practice" and "to conscience", and Yangming learning is superior to Zhu.
Speaking of it, Wang Yangming is still a "softhearted" thinker. He was dissatisfied with his father, but he never resisted. He was very kind to the soldiers, so he considered the salary and other issues in advance, and even showed sympathy for the enemy, and implemented flexible education after the war.
This kind of "soft-hearted" is also manifested in academics. Wang Yangming seldom criticizes Zhu, which is also because Zhu's research scope is much larger than that of Yang Ming. Therefore, his severe criticism is limited to Zhu's sub-classics, sub-biography and supplementary biography of Daxue, which he thinks is tearing up ancient books and explaining mistakes, so he advocates the ancient version of Daxue. As for Zhu's compilation of the final judgment in his later years, he is even more reluctant to "directly criticize" and "sincerely bear".