Gu (16 15, July 2003-1February 682, 15) was born in Kunshan, South Zhili (now Kunshan, Jiangsu). Outstanding thinkers, historians, geographers and phonologists in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, together with Huang Zongxi and Wang Fuzhi, are called "three great Confucianism" in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen (1643), he was born in imperial academy and joined the Fu Society. After the Qing soldiers entered Shanhaiguan, they organized anti-Qing activities relying on the political power, the imperial censor Wang Yongzuo, Tang Wangzhu and the poetry society.
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Gu is known as the founder of "opening Confucianism" and "opening mountains in Qing Dynasty", and is a famous scholar of Confucian classics, history, geography and phonology. He is knowledgeable and has profound attainments in Confucian classics, history, phonology, primary school, epigraphy and archaeology, local chronicles, geography, poetry and so on. He made great achievements in connecting the past with the future and became an outstanding master who opened the way for a generation of academics.
He inherited the anti-Neo-Confucianism thoughts of Ming scholars, not only cleaned up Neo-Confucianism, but also showed different learning purposes from Neo-Confucianism in many aspects, such as heaven and man, qi, Tao, knowing and doing, heaven and human desire.
The distinctive purport of applying what one has learned, the simple inductive textual research method, the pioneering spirit and the achievements made in many academic fields ended the style of study in the late Ming Dynasty and started a generation of simple learning, which had a very beneficial impact on scholars in the Qing Dynasty.