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| The Distinction between the Strands of the Later and Decadent Stage of Confucianism in Yang Shi's Neo-Confucianism and Its Cultural Implications |
| Bao Jiadao |
| School of Marxism, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, 214122 |
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Abstract Neo-Confucianism in the Song Dynasty attached great importance to Confucian orthodoxy. Yang Shi unswervingly adhered to the teachings of Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi since he became one of the disciples of the former at the age of twenty-nine. Within the domain of Neo-Confucianism, Yang further drew distinctions
between different strands of Confucianism since early the Qin Dynasty, namely the idea of Zhungzi, the rhetoric of Neo-Confucianism, and the learning of zhangju. In conclusion, these distinctions conform with both Yang's own interpretation of Neo-Confucianism and the notion maintained by Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi and their other disciples; and resonate with the tendency of Neo-Confucianism's appreciation of the Confucian orthodoxy of Confucius and Mencius, and disapproval of that in the Han and Tang Dynasties.
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Received: 11 August 2014
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2015, Vol. 32 
