儒家的真道统

On Genuine Confucian Orthodoxy

儒家的真道统应该是黄帝、颛顼、帝喾、尧、舜、禹、汤、文、武、周公、孔子、子夏、穀梁子、荀子、孟子。由于孟子是从子夏、穀梁子这一派学习,独立出去后恢复或重建了子思之学,所以附于荀子之后。笔者主张孔子是先圣,荀子直接相对于孔子称为后圣;因为是荀孟,所以孟子相对于荀子称为亚圣或附圣,即孟子是附于道统之后的圣人。

The genuine Confucian orthodoxy should be Huangdi(Yellow Emperor),Zhuanxu,Diku,Yao,Shun,Yu(Yu the Great),Tang,Wen(King Wen of Zhou),Wu(King Wu of Zhou),Zhou Gong(Duke of Zhou),Confucius,Zixia,Guliangzi,Xunzi and Mencius.As Mencius learnt from the school of Zixia and Guliangzi,he restored or reconstructed Zisi's learning and theory after being independent.Hence he was attached to Xunzi.The author of this paper advocates that Confucius is the former Saint,and Xunzi is called the later Sage compared with Confucius.As Xunzi is before Mencius(Xunzi is the first and Mencius is the second),Mencius is called the sub-saint or the attached saint compared with Xunzi.In other words,Mencius is the sage attached to Confucian orthodoxy.