A brief introduction to the author of Ming Wen Hai
Huang Zongxi (16 10 ~ 1695), also known as Nan Lei, is called Mr. Li Zhou by scholars and Huang Zhupu (Jinwei) from Yuyao. Great enlightenment thinkers, historians, writers, educators and natural scientists in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Huang Zongxi said that there were three changes in his life: "At first, it was party member, then it was a ranger, and finally it was a scholar." Huang Zongxi was born in a scholarly family. His father, Huang Zunsu, was a scholar in the forty-fourth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (16 16), a royal counselor in the Xi period of the Ming Dynasty, and a famous Lin Dong. He was murdered for impeaching eunuch Wei Zhongxian. Huang Zongxi, who was only 19 years old, went to Beijing alone to plead for his father with an iron cone in his sleeve. When Chongzhen acceded to the throne, the eunuch fell from power and influence, and Huang Zongxi stabbed Wei Zhongxian's best friend Xu Xianchun to death on the spot in the lobby of punishments, causing a sensation at home and abroad. He followed his father's instructions before his death, and spent three years "knowing the thirteen dynasties and tracing the twenty-first history" and reading all of them. After that, I studied the Six Classics, history, philosophy, astronomy, geography, calendar, music, mathematics and other books in a planned way. Liu is a famous Confucian scholar in eastern Zhejiang. He worked as a teacher and made rapid progress in his studies. By the time he was in his twenties, he was already famous in the southeast. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Huang Zongxi held high national integrity and devoted himself to the anti-Qing armed struggle, showing outstanding military talents. After the failure of anti-Qing, Huang Zongxi made a series of profound reflections on the rise and fall of the country and historical changes with a clear mind. In the third year of Kangxi, 54-year-old Huang Zongxi wrote an enlightening masterpiece "A Visit from Ming Yi and Others" on the basis of what Liu Shu wrote ten years ago. This book lashed out at the feudal autocratic monarchy, asserted that "the monarch is the bane of the world", advocated the reform of land and tax system, put forward the advanced thought that "industry and commerce are the foundation" and criticized the traditional view that agriculture is the foundation of industry and commerce. This book shines with the light of democracy. Huang Zongxi has been living in seclusion in the countryside. The Qing court recruited a learned scholar and hired him to write The History of the Ming Dynasty, but he insisted on it three times. Huang Zongxi was a famous philosopher and philosopher historian in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. On the philosophical ontology, he devoted himself to the summary, revision and transformation of Yangming's theory of mind, and clearly put forward the "monism of qi" with materialistic tendency, which is his most valuable contribution. As a historian of philosophy, Huang Zongxi made a very important summary of the development of China's philosophy: "One book is different". This is fully reflected in his academic masterpiece The Case of Confucianism in the Ming Dynasty, which was completed at the age of 75. This book gives a systematic and complete introduction and comment on the academic thoughts of various schools in the Ming Dynasty for 300 years, and is the first masterpiece in the history of academic thoughts in China. When Huang Zongxi was eighty-four, The Sea was published, which was the biggest work in his life. Huang Zongxi's works are extremely rich. According to statistics, he wrote more than 60 kinds of works in his life, 1300 volumes and tens of millions of words. While writing hard, Huang Zongxi gave lectures and trained students in Ningbo, Shaoxing and Haichang. He was the founder of the East Zhejiang School. Wan Sitong, Wan Sida and Yan Ruoqu, famous scholars in Qing Dynasty, were all his students.