Xunzi
Written by Zhao Renxun during the Warring States Period, 20 volumes, 32 articles are preserved today. There are Tang Yang Liang notes, Qing Wang Xianqian set explanations. This book is an important philosophical work of the pre-Qin period, and it is also an important collection of essays.
Xun condition. (313 B.C. ~ 238 B.C.) Zhao people during the Warring States period, a famous thinker and educator. Study tour in Qi, the third is the sacrificial wine of the scholar under the Jixia, and then the appropriate Chu is the Lanling order. The doctrine is based on Confucius, who wrote tens of thousands of words, advocating the rule of etiquette and advocating the theory of sexual evil, which is opposed to Mencius's theory of sexual goodness; Han Fei and Li Si are both students. Ten articles were written, which was the first of the Han people's resignation. Later generations were called "Xunqing" and "Xunzi", and the Han people changed their names to "Sun Qing" in order to avoid Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty.
Wang Xianqian
In the Tang Dynasty, Han Yu's clan took Xunzishu as a big and small flaw, arrested the Song Dynasty, and the attackers benefited the public. Push the reason, and use the evil reason to speak.
The rest is said to be sexually evil, which is not Xunzi's original intention. His words said: Straight wood does not wait for the straight one, and its character is straight; The wolfwood must be straightened and then straightened, and it is not straight. Today, human nature is evil, and it will be ruled by the holy king, and the righteousness will be transformed, and then it will all be ruled and will be in harmony with the good. The husband makes Xunzi and does not know that human nature has good and evil, and he does not know that wood nature has wolf and straightness. But if he says this, do he really not know sexual evil? Yu suffered from the chaos of the world with the sorrow of Xunzi, and the people were disgrateful, and they came out of this with gratitude.
Xunzi's theory of learning and governance, all of which are based on etiquette, repeatedly detailed, and made clear their interests, which are indispensable for the establishment of the ancient monastic teaching. It said: If you don't understand the class, you can't say that you are good at learning; Again; A thing is out of proportion, and the end of chaos is also. Exploring the essence of the Holy Gate, the reason for the success or failure of the ancient and modern times, the discussion does not exceed a few seats, and the thoughts are boundless, the body has not tasted a day to add to the people, and the act is credible and permissible, and the people who carve the core are slanderous, and they cannot be compared with the Dao. Yu also thought that the sorrowful Xunzi technique was not used at that time, and the name was destroyed in later generations, and the mouth of the laity was also resigned.
Confucianism in the national dynasty is prosperous, and the summary of the four libraries of the King James is the first to list Xunzi Confucianism. Rebuke the words of good and evil, the friendship of the general exhortation, and the conclusion is obvious, and the scholars know and advocate it. Gu Qi's book only has Yang Liang's note, which is not perfect. In recent times, Jiashan Xie's schoolbook was passed, and there were also sparse mistakes from time to time to get it, Su Confucian master, many Kuang Yi, few things at home, and the words of the families were collected from the side, and a book was explained for Xunzi, and it was also attached between them. I don't dare to say that it is the essence of Xunshu, there is an invention, and in the analysis of Yang Xie's doubts, consider the definitive version of the Song and Yuan dynasties, and there is almost no one.
Carved into, I would like to be concise, and reveal the subtle purpose of Xunzi's book, and later readers to prove the cloud.
In the seventeenth year of Guangxu, Xinmao, summer, May, Changsha, Wang Xianqian prefaced.