Shao Yong

Shao Yong (Chinese: 邵雍; pinyin: Shào Yōng; Wade–Giles: Shao Yung; 1011–1077), courtesy name Yaofu (堯夫), named Shào Kāngjié (邵康節) was a Chinese cosmologist, historian, philosopher, and poet who greatly influenced the development of Neo-Confucianism across China during the Song dynasty.

Unlike most men of such stature in his society, Shao avoided governmental positions his entire life, but his influence was no less substantial.

He was born in 1011 in an area known as Hengzhang county (衡漳, now Anyang, Henan) to Shao Gu (邵古, 986–1064) and Lady Li (李氏, d. 1032 or 1033).

Secondly, the men set out to undermine any links, real or otherwise, between 4th-century Confucianism and what they viewed as inferior philosophical schools of thinking, namely Buddhism and Taoism.

Together with the majority of scholars, the other members of the group took the yili xue (義理學, "principle study") approach, which was based on literalistic and moralistic concepts.

Sima Guang (a close friend of Shao Yung) edited the Taixuanjing by Yang Xiong (written in 10 AD).

In a quiet courtyard in the spring, with evening's light filtering through the leaves, guests relax on the veranda and watch as two compete at wéiqí.Each calls into themselves the divine and the infernal, sculpting mountains and rivers into their world.Across the board, dragons and serpents array for battle, geese scatter as collapsing fortresses are sacked; masses die, pushed into pits by Qin's soldiers, and the drama's audience is left in awe of its General Jin.To sit at the board is to raise halberd and taste combat, to endure the freezing and brave the flames in the constant changes;life and death each will come to both masters, but victory and defeat must each go to one.On this road, one strips away the other's disguises, in life, one must erect one's own facade;dreadful is a wound to the exposed belly or heart, merely painful is an injury to the face, which can be cured;Effective is a blow that strikes home in an opponent's back, successful are schemes that use repeated feints and deceit.Look at the activity on the streets of our capital, if you were to go elsewhere, wouldn't it be the same?