The phrase "Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world" was first proposed in Gu Yanwu's "Rizhilu·Zhengshi". "Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world" means national affairs. The rise and fall of the country and protecting the country from being overthrown are the responsibilities of the emperors, generals, ministers and ministers of civil and military affairs, and have nothing to do with ordinary people.
Gu Yanwu (July 15, 1613 - February 15, 1682), whose real name was Gu Jiang, was born in Ning, and was known as Mr. Tinglin. He was a native of Kunshan (now Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province) in Nanzhili. The outstanding thinkers, classics scholars, historiographers and phonologists of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties were together with Huang Zongxi and Wang Fuzhi known as the "Three Great Confucians" in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
In the 16th year of Chongzhen (1643), he became a Imperial College student and joined Fushe. After the Qing troops entered the pass, they successively relied on the Hongguang regime, Wang Yongzhao, the imperial censor of Qiandu, Tang Wang Zhu Yujian, and the Poetry Society to organize anti-Qing activities.
Extended information:
Gu Yanwu is known as the "founding Confucian master" of the Qing Dynasty and the founder of "Qing Xue". He is a famous Confucian scholar, historian and geologist, and phonologist. He is very knowledgeable and has profound attainments in classics, history, phonology, primary school, epigraphy, archaeology, local chronicles and geography, as well as poetry and prose. He has made great achievements in inheriting the past and linking the future, and has become an outstanding master who pioneered a generation of academics.
He inherited the anti-Confucianism trend of scholars in the Ming Dynasty. Not only did he liquidate the Lu Wang Xinxue, but he also showed his close relationship with Cheng and Zhu in many categories such as sex and heaven, regulation and qi, Taoism, knowledge and action, and natural principles and human desires. Neo-Confucianism has very different learning purposes.
Gu Yanwu’s clear purpose of studying the world, his simple and inductive textual research method, his exploratory spirit of creating new paths, and his achievements in many academic fields put an end to the sparse academic style in the late Ming Dynasty and opened up a It paved the way for a generation of simple academic style and had an extremely beneficial influence on scholars in the Qing Dynasty.