顾炎武

顧炎武

Gù Yánwǔ

proper noun

Meanings

1 Gu Yanwu (1613–1682), late Ming and early Qing scholar who laid the foundations of Qing evidential learning

Characters

Examples

HSK 6

顾炎武是明末清初的思想家。

Gù Yánwǔ shì Míngmò Qīngchū de sīxiǎngjiā.

Gu Yanwu was a thinker of the late Ming and early Qing.

HSK 7-9

“天下兴亡，匹夫有责”的说法，源自顾炎武的《日知录》。

" Tiānxià-xīngwáng, pǐfū-yǒuzé " de shuōfa, yuánzì Gù Yánwǔ de 《 Rìzhīlù 》.

The saying "the rise and fall of the realm is every man's responsibility" comes from Gu Yanwu's Record of Daily Knowledge.

Tips

history

He refused to serve the Qing and spent decades travelling the north with his books loaded on mules, checking what he read against what he saw. With 黄宗羲 and 王夫之 he is one of the three great thinkers of the Ming-Qing transition, and his habit of testing texts against evidence grew into Qing 考据 scholarship.

culture

The eight-character form 天下兴亡，匹夫有责 was coined later by 梁启超, condensing a passage of the 《日知录》 saying that every common man shares the duty of keeping civilisation alive.

Stroke Order

顾 gù

炎 yán

武 wǔ