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Li Cunshan’s theory of “constant” and “change” of Chinese civilization
Author: Gan Chunsong
Source: “History of Chinese Philosophy” 2022 Issue 4
Abstract: Li Cunshan inherited the philosophy of Zhang Dainian and Rongyoulan civilization, and advocated Zhang from the value system to determine the common way of civilization, and proposed his own narrative integration of the “constant way” of Confucian civilization. He believed that the Confucian value system should develop continuously due to changes in social history, and to develop its unique value against challenges such as people, people and environment. Especially how to explore from the basics to the main, Li Cunshan’s understanding of the “new destiny” of Confucian civilization has been realized.
Keywords: Li Cunshan; Changdao; Interesting;
People are accused of calling the civilization challenge faced by modern China “a great change that has not been seen in three thousand years”. On the one hand, this challenge is the strong violation of the Oriental line and the disobedience brought by it, and on the other hand, it is the crisis of Chinese civilization. In the face of challenges and crisis, the Chinese are trapped in a conflict of wisdom and emotional conflict. Wisely, we realize a step to learn the East needed to save the crisis, and emotionally we keep our civilization traditions and their value. From foreign business movement to transformation and opening up, thinkers in the period of disagreement have always been seeking to resolve conflicts and integrate new knowledge. If we use the theory and theory of Zhang Zhidong’s Chinese and Western style as reference, there is not only the full-page overview of the traditional thoughts, but also the civilization’s upholding theories on the civilization’s nature. In addition, the reconciliation of political goals has also disrupted the conflicts of ideological forms by civilized thoughts.
In front of the sect’s stand, philosophers tried to determine the boundaries of discussion from the theoretical perspective to prevent unordered conflicts in the view. In this regard, the comprehensive innovative discussion of Mr. Zhang Dainian and the “common differences” discussion of Mr. Rongyoulan are very representative. Li Cunshan, who entered the academic field in the 80th century, has been deeply influenced by the civilization of the people of the country, especially Zhang Dainian. He used the “constant” and “change” to reflect on the characteristics of Chinese civilization and its transformation path. He can be the inheritor and developer of the comprehensive innovative civilization view of Teacher Zhang Dainian.
1. Differentiation: Exploring the characteristics of Chinese civilization
The analysis of “constant” and “change” is the main way to clear the redundancy of viewpoints. In the long history of development of Chinese civilization, it has formed a theoretical system focusing on Confucianism and its specifications and legal systems as the regulatory and metaphysical systems of this theoretical system.. However, the exclusive position of Confucianism’s institutionalization also prompted contemporary thinkers to continuously strengthen the divergence between the theoretical system and the behavioral norms. Therefore, when we determine the “one-point” of the Confucian theoretical system, the standard system as the theoretical system is naturally regarded as “natural” and “unchanged from ancient times”. Therefore, in the eyes of a family, if they do not recognize the Confucian ethical norms, they will naturally deny the Confucian moral system. This is a one-yuan system, and cannot be released.
But this univariate proof method has suffered a crisis in modern times. If the unresolved analysis of theory and norms continues to lead to a thorough denial of the civilization system. Therefore, starting from Kang Youhu and others, they are constantly trying to break through the contemporary limitations of Confucianism from the classical explanation and activate their internal energy. The “constant” and “change” in civilization and morality are the proof methods adopted by Mr. Zhang Dainian when he participated in the disputes between civilization in the 30th year of the last century, and integrated the comprehensive innovation of civilization. This created the analytical framework of Li Cunshan’s development from the “constant way” and “life” of Confucian civilization.
(I) Li Cunshan’s inheritance of Zhang Dainian and Rongyoulan civilization
Amid the civilization of the 80th year of the last century, Li Cunshan began to systematically think about the development problems of Chinese civilization. He believed that his civilization was “mostly influenced by the civilization view of Mr. Zhang” and also influenced by the thinking method of “different and different” by Mr. Rong. He believed that “the ‘the ‘new destiny of the old country and the ‘continued changes’ of the ‘comprehensive innovation knowledge’ led by Mr. Rong” [1].
Zhang Dainian became famous for directly participating in the civilization discussions induced by the “China-Capable Declaration on Civilization Construction” (1935). However, Zhang Dainian paid attention to the problem of civilization earlier. His first article discussing civilization, “World Civilization and Chinese Civilization”, was published in 1933 in the supplement “World Thoughts” of “Zhigong News” compiled by Zhang Shenfu. He proposed that Chinese civilization and world civilization have good and bad aspects, and cannot simply deny and accept them all in one or another, and believe that the key to reforming old civilization is to create new civilizations.
In the 30th year of the 20th century, Zhang Dainian named his civilization “created complexity”. The most important thing he wanted was to provide innovative ways of civilization to discuss and think, that is, the method of theory, which is what we are talking about now. He said: “If you think clearly about the truth of the creation of the combination, you must also be clear about the ‘reason’. There is a denial of the ‘reason’, the emergence of new things, and the ‘removal’ effect. The creation of the combination is the ‘removal’ of new things and the ‘removal’ of new things. 1Short-term cultivation side rejects old things, but also sticks to the good things in old things, and not only persists, but also advances and strives for them; at the same time, it is even more innovative and appears with a new look. All the complex created is not only comprehensive, but can deny the new overall that appears after the old things. ”【2】Under this kind of thinking, Teacher Zhang Dainian believed that civilization is not a closed whole that cannot be “dissected”. Civilization can continuously scrutinize old content with the development of the times, and receive divergent civilization resources and create new content. Li Cunshan said: “A major idea of Teacher Zhang in the theory of civilization is that in the 20th century In the past 30 years, the materialist proof method was closely combined with the materialist historical materialism, thus restoring the “living soul” of materialist historical materialism in civilized theory. He made a sudden denial of the view that China’s old civilization was “completely cancelled” and “swept it away”, pointing out that “only those who do not understand the materialist proof method will have this initiative.” Teacher Zhang’s new insight is that civilization “must change” with the development of society, but “has constant change”. ”【3】
In the 1980s of the 20th century, Teacher Zhang Dainian continued to enrich his civilization concepts and proposed a comprehensive innovative civilization concept. Fang Keli, Teacher Liu Epei, etc. were the main developers of comprehensive innovative civilization concepts. Among the later students, the one who was most promising and promoting in the theory of Teacher Zhang Dainian was the one who was the most popular and promoted to Li Cunshan.
Li Cunshan also carefully sorted out the changes in civilization view of Rongyoulan during the period of disagreement. When Mr. Rong took over the doctoral degree in Colombia in 1946, his thought development of his own thoughts can be divided into three stages. In the period of disagreement, he had different understandings about the relationship between Chinese and Western civilizations. The first stage was influenced by the argument of the local environment, and the second stage was divided into historical development stages based on the historical development stage. The third stage of civilization is to explain the differences in civilizations based on social types. The third stage he said is actually the time when he wrote “New Science”, which is the most clear presentation of the philosophical standpoint by the head teacher of the Youlian School.
Li Cunshan said: “The New Science of Science speaks that “reality” is more basic than “in reality”, and advocates “reason in advance” and “reason in matters”, which is for understanding Chinese and Western civilizations. The conflicts did not help much.” [4] In my opinion, this passage may have some errors in the 
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