HIS 9A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fan Zhongyan, Zhu Xi, New Confucianism
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Importance of wives, educate the children: spread of concubinage, only officials could take concubines . Concubine were the servants to the main wife, be obedient, illegal to make concubine your wife!! (foot-binding: wifely (widow) loyalty. Neo- confucianism (daoxue, cheng-)hu li(cid:454)ue, (cid:858)lear(cid:374)i(cid:374)g of the wa(cid:455)(cid:863)(cid:895: five northern song masters (cheng brothers, new confucian metaphysics, (cid:862) upre(cid:373)e ulti(cid:373)ate (cid:894)taiji , qi (ether, matter , li (principle , xin (human heart-and-mind ) Ur(cid:271)a(cid:374)isatio(cid:374), rise of (cid:862)pop(cid:863) (cid:373)usi(cid:272), less di(cid:448)i(cid:374)e poe(cid:373)s (cid:271)ut (cid:373)ore u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)da(cid:271)le to the public because more people were more educated but not too high educational level. Ideological changes (southern song synthesis: zhu xi (1130-1200), major philosopher figure, studied buddhism and found that misleading the people, so he followed confucians) Neo confucian practice: (cid:862)quiet itti(cid:374)g(cid:863) (cid:894)ji(cid:374)g )uo , (cid:862)i(cid:374)(cid:448)estigatio(cid:374) of thi(cid:374)gs(cid:863) (cid:894)ge wu , (cid:862)e(cid:454)te(cid:374)sio(cid:374) of k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge (cid:894))hi )hi , the four books (cid:894)a(cid:374)ale(cid:272)ts, me(cid:374)(cid:272)ius, do(cid:272)tri(cid:374)e of the (cid:862)mea(cid:374)(cid:863), the great lear(cid:374)i(cid:374)g(cid:895)
