"the Self-generation Of Qi": The Role Of The Bamboo Slip Essay, Hengxian, In The History Of Intellectual Thought
Abstract
"Constant first" greatest contribution to the history of ideas is the first time clearly stated, "gas is self" proposition, the assertion of religious and mythological world view of the negative. From the air, Buddhism, Taoism, Taoism process gas to determine the unity of the history of ideas, "Heng Xian" may be a gas, Buddhism, Taoism, said before the advent of gas-in-one academic thought had come out, "Hang the first" writing time may not be later than the Warring States Period the beginning. "Hang the first" should be a house of yin and yang have come out prior to the works, neither Taoism articles, but also non-Confucian literature. The greatest contribution of Hengxian to the history of intellectual thought is that it specifically mentioned the proposition of "the self-generation of qi" for the first time ever. This is a denial of the worldviews of religions and myths. In view of how the history of the idea of the integration of qi and tao progressed, it is fair to say that Hengxian was released before the thought about the integration of qi and tao emerged. Hengxian could not possibly have been written after the early Period of Warring States. Hengxian was probably released before the school of Yin-yang and Five Elements was founded, therefore neither a Taoist nor a Confucian text