The ancients said, "Learning starts from thinking, and thinking starts from doubt.'

Ming Dynasty scholar Chen Xianzhang once said: "Senior scholars have doubts, small doubts lead to small progress, and big doubts lead to great progress. Enter. For those who doubt, there is an opportunity for enlightenment. Once you awaken, you will make progress. "When there are doubts and confusions, there will be situations where "the heart seeks to understand but does not get the meaning", and "the mouth wants to speak but fails to express the appearance". Chen Xianzhang's "Lunxue Shu")

This shows that life Doubts and questions are very important, especially being able to "doubt where there is no doubt" depends on the "eyesight" of the researcher.

There are rumors spreading on the Internet. Many web pages say that Chen Xianzhang is from the Qing Dynasty, and others. Some people say that he is from the Han Dynasty, which is really ridiculous.

Some even say that "Learning starts from thinking, thinking starts from doubt" is what he said. In fact, it is not, it is just like the ancients.< /p>

Chen Xianzhang (1428-1500), courtesy name Gongfu and Shizhai, was a native of Xinhui, Guangdong. He later moved to Baisha Village in Jiangmen. Therefore, most people in the world call him Chen Baisha and Mr. Baisha in the world. He advocated "learning to know doubts" and "independent thinking", and advocated a relatively free and open style of study, gradually forming a school with its own characteristics, known as the Jiangmen School in history. His works were later compiled into "The Complete Works of Bai Shasha". Wu Yubi, who studied at Fuzhou University in Jiangxi Province when he was young, was deeply influenced by Wu's thought of "cultivation in quiet time and introspection in active time" and decided not to take the imperial examination. In the eighteenth year of Chenghua (1482), he was recommended to be summoned to Beijing and was awarded the Imperial Academy for review. Since then, he could not afford to be recommended, so he devoted himself to learning and became a famous scholar of the Ming Dynasty.

Chen Xianzhang is good at calligraphy and painting. He uses thatch as a pen and calls it "Maolong". His calligraphy is vigorous, bold and self-contained. He is good at painting ink plum blossoms, uses simple and ancient brushwork, and wins with charm. His poetic theory is also based on nature, so his works are full of interest, which is different from Taoist poets such as Shao Yong, a scholar in the Song Dynasty who are full of turban flavor. Among philosophers' poems, Chen Xianzhang should be the most outstanding since ancient times. A review of "The Sea of ??Poetry in Eastern Guangdong" says: "Most of the famous Confucians in Neo-Confucianism are not good at poetry, but their original emotions are naturally superb. Zhu Huiweng later recommended me to Baisha, Guangdong. ... Baisha is beautiful and elegant, and cannot be compared with Japanese." The world recommends him as "my master of Guangdong".

As a master of Neo-Confucianism, Chen Xianzhang had more than a thousand students, and his disciple was Zengcheng Zhan Ruoshui. Therefore, Chen Xianzhang left many poems and Neo-Confucian articles in Zengcheng, many of which were lost due to military disasters in the past dynasties. However, the articles included in "County Chronicles" include the following articles: "Sacrifice at Liu's Ancestral Hall in Zengcheng", "With Zhan Minze" and "The Epitaph of Chen Jun, the First Scholar" and so on.