黄宗羲

黃宗羲

Huáng Zōngxī

proper noun

Meanings

1 Huang Zongxi, Ming-Qing transition scholar, philosopher and political thinker

About Huang Zongxi

1610–1695 · 思想家 thinker

Ming loyalist thinker who refused to serve the Qing. His 明夷待访录 (Waiting for the Dawn) argues that a ruler exists for the people, not the people for the ruler, and was read by late Qing reformers.

Also called 太冲、梨洲

Characters

黄

Huáng

Huang (surname); yellow

ancient mythological name (e.g. Fuxi 伏羲)

Examples

HSK 6

黄宗羲是明末清初著名的思想家。

Huáng Zōngxī shì Míng mò Qīng chū zhùmíng de sīxiǎngjiā.

Huang Zongxi was a famous thinker of the late Ming and early Qing period.

HSK 7-9

《明夷待访录》是黄宗羲的代表作。

《 Míng yí dài fǎng lù 》 shì Huáng Zōngxī de dàibiǎozuò.

Waiting for the Dawn is Huang Zongxi's masterwork.

Tips

history

Together with 顾炎武 and 王夫之, Huang Zongxi is counted among the 'Three Great Confucians of the Late Ming', 明末三大儒.

In Pop Culture

明夷待访录 Míng yí dài fǎng lù

Waiting for the Dawn: A Plan for the Prince

Huang Zongxi's 1663 political treatise critiquing imperial autocracy and proposing limits on monarchy - sometimes called 'China's earliest democratic thinking', and influential on late-Qing reformers.

Stroke Order

黄 huáng

宗 zōng

羲 Xī

黄宗羲