An Analysis of Liu Zongzhou's Thought of 'Prudence and Independence' and 'Zhonghe'

摘要

Liu Zongzhou's thought of "Zhonghe" is based on the criticism and inheritance of his predecessors 'thoughts. A major feature of this thought is that it implements the method of "melting integration". For a long time, people have conducted a lot of research on the issue of neutralization, and have mainly divided it into two development contexts: "Neo-Confucianism" and "Xinxue". The formation of Liu Zongzhou's "Zhonghe" thought has a unique background and academic foundation. Liu Zongzhou, on the one hand, criticized Cheng Zhu's thoughts; on the other hand, he corrected and absorbed their thoughts by promoting the integration of the thought of "prudence and independence" and the thought of "neutrality", and further put forward the working theory that "to restore harmony is to bring peace", and then constructed the ideological and academic system of "uniqueness". It can be seen that the study of Liu Zongzhou's thoughts of "prudence and independence" and "neutrality" has very important practical significance. Analyzing the forming reasons of Liu Zongzhou's thought of "prudence independence" and "neutrality", the article explores the historical value of Liu Zongzhou's thought of "prudence independence" and "neutrality". The aim of the paper is to provide some ideas on how to promote the effective application of Liu Zongzhou's "cautious independence" and "neutralization" ideas.