Wenzhou had jurisdiction over Yongjia, Ruian, Pingyang and Yueqing counties in the Southern Song Dynasty. Wenzhou was Yongjia County in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, so Wenzhou was called Yongjia in ancient times.
? Yongjia School was formed in the early Southern Song Dynasty, but it has a long history. In the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, Wang Kaizu (Confucianism) and Ding Changqi (Jingxing) set up an academy in Wenzhou to teach students and set up Yongjia. Wang Kaizu is regarded as the "forerunner", and Quan said, "Yongjia started from Mr. Ru". In the late Northern Song Dynasty, Zhou (Mr. Fu Yun) and Xu Jingheng (Mr. Heng Tang), known as "Mr. Yongjia Jiu and Yuanfeng imperial academy", spread Cheng Yi's Luo Xue and Zhang Zai's Guan Xue to Wenzhou, which made Yongjia develop by leaps and bounds. Although it has not yet formed an independent school, it is of great significance to the formation of Yongjia School later. During the Southern Song Dynasty, Yongjia scholars came forth in large numbers. Zheng, Zheng Boying, Xue, Liu, and Liu are famous scholars in the early Yongjia school, who pay attention to the research of achievements. Ye Shi inherited and developed the predecessors' meritorious thoughts, and established the Yongjia theory system, making Yongjia School an important school in the academic history of our country, which is as famous as Zhu's Daoism and Lu Jiuyuan's Xin Xue, and is the historical origin of Yongjia School.
Characteristics of Yongjia School
? The biggest feature of Yongjia School is that it is different from Zhu's "Taoism" and Lu Jiuyuan's "Mind" at that time. They emphasize utility, attach importance to labor, oppose the traditional policy of attaching importance to agriculture and neglecting commerce, advocate paying equal attention to agriculture, industry and commerce, and give businessmen certain opportunities for free development. The academic thought of Yongjia School can be summarized into three characteristics:
1. advocates the idea of accepting the state and benevolent government, and has a strong patriotic spirit. The scholars in Yongjia are all staunch anti-Japanese factions, and many of them have personally commanded the army to fight against the nomads from Jin.
2. Pay attention to historical research and try to find out the truth of the success or failure of countries in past dynasties.
3. Focus on solving practical problems.
The influence of Yongjia school on later generations
Yongjia School has a far-reaching influence on later generations. His emphasis on achievements and historical research not only had a great impact on the East Zhejiang School in Ming and Qing Dynasties, but also had a long-term and profound impact on the academic atmosphere and social atmosphere in this area.
Since the Song Dynasty, a large number of Wen scholars are familiar with things and serve the world, and they are ashamed to copy the old theory. Shi Boluo of Yuan Dynasty paid attention to facts and published new opinions one after another. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Ji put forward eighteen strategies for current affairs to Zhu Yuanzhang, and analyzed the current situation in the world with incisive and original opinions. Yining, the three imperial families, is highly respected, knowledgeable, versatile and proficient in astronomy, geography, law, military punishment and other useful knowledge. During the orthodox period of the Ming Dynasty, the top scholar played Ming Daizong's "Advice on Current Politics" to help the world and correct the current situation.
In the late Qing Dynasty, when the Chinese nation was at home and abroad, a number of representatives such as Sun, Sun, Sun Yirang, Huang, Chen, Song Shu, Liu Shaokuan, Chen Huai and Liu Jingchen appeared in Wenzhou's ideological and academic circles. Sun and Sun Yirang, in particular, are deeply influenced by Yongjia School, and highly admire He Ye Shi. "Studying all one's life, taking the study of Yongjia Confucian classics as one's responsibility", compiling and engraving Yongjia scholars' works, and maintaining Yongjia school's theoretical and academic status. Sun Yirang is a master of Park Studies who advocates "learning is not old or new, but practical". In his later years, he was more keen on setting up schools, enlightening people's wisdom, "responding to needs" and hoping to "revitalize the world and save the nation"
The ideological origin of Wenzhou's economic model in 1980s can be traced back to the cultural accumulation of Yongjia School. Contemporary Wenzhou people are pragmatic, not only bookish, but also independent, creating Wenzhou sugar wind, which is in the same strain as the thought of township sages and sages.