进退有道:吴澄的人生选择

吴澄是元代著名理学家,以往学者更多关注的是吴澄的理学成就,而对吴澄的人生经历重视、研究不够。吴澄生于宋末,在元初隐居乡间近三十年后,虽三次出仕,但又都很快辞官归隐,这种人生选择是耐人寻味的,从中可以看到吴澄的志趣及其思想,看到一个深受儒家思想影响的知识分子在易代之际的思考和实践。研究吴澄的人生选择,不仅有助于深化对吴澄的认识,丰富对元代文人心态的了解,同时也可以增加对传统文人行为逻辑的理解

To Advance and Retreat on Principle:Wu Cheng's Choice of his Life

Wu Cheng, a famous Confucianism thinker of Yuan dynasty, was born in the late period of Song dynasty. In the early years of Yuan dynasty he went out to work as an official three times after living in countryside thirty years, But he resigned soon after for three times and went back to countryside. Wu Cheng's choices are thought-provoking, from which we can find his aspiration, his interest and his thoughts.His choices helped us to recognize an intelligent's thinking and practice at the turn of dynasties, whose mind was influenced by Confucianism.To analyze Wu Cheng's choice of life can not only have access to deep cognition of Wu Cheng, but to the understanding of psychology of intelligents living in Yuan dynasty. In the mean time, it can promote the cognition of traditional scholars' logic of action.