Mr. Liu Hongyi's Mr. Liu Hongyi's explanation about Xinglin Tonghui Shuyuan:

Sunny plowing and rain reading family and the world - Apricot Grove Tonghui Shuyuan plowing and reading mode of attempt

I, the academy to cultivate what people

On the form of organization of the academy, the historical development, the role and significance of the dissemination of academic thought, popularization of the role and meaning of rites and music education and culture, the gentleman has much to commend the words, I want to talk about is that, today I would like to talk about a few issues to think about today's academy.

First of all, it is the problem of people. The academy, Taoist temple, Zen school has always been the Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, the three schools out of talent. The Confucian academy has several purposes: one for the past saints, so that the Confucian learning of the flame; the second survival of the Taoist tradition, so that the Confucian learning of the original positive flow of clear to consistent; three out of the talent, really out of a few on the horse with a gun, down the horse with a pen of the real people.

So, the focus of the academy in the people, what people to do, what people host, who will do tutor, who will speak, where students come from, to train them into what people, with where, etc., are people's problems, the money is still in the second, no one is empty.

"The mountain is not high, there is immortal is famous". There are hundreds of domestic academies, and hundreds of overseas Confucius Institutes, but where are the people who can pass on Confucianism? Hardware is easy, software is difficult, and it is easy to find money but difficult to find people. To revitalize Confucianism, it is difficult to find people. What are we going to do with the academies? To entertain ourselves, we might as well run a private club. The purpose of running a school is to cultivate people, so that Confucianism can produce a few real people, people with real skills, people with ideals, aspirations, willingness to take responsibility, responsible, caring for life, concerned about the community, with the heart of the family, the country and the world of the people with a capital letter.

There are three forms of academies: government-run, private, public-private partnership, I personally tend to be private, and hope to develop the bones of Confucianism, the spirit of independence, the freedom of thought, if even what to teach, how to teach, what students can not be recruited independently, but also out of the talent?

I have been thinking about what I would do if I were given a school, how I would go on, how I would go long term, and how I would produce talents. Today, it is more difficult to produce talents than in ancient times, because he has to integrate the East and the West, the present and the past, science, philosophy, art, management, scripture, history, poetry and song, nature, society and humanities should be general, but also bilingual international exchanges, on the horse with a gun to protect the country, the next horse with a pen to write a book, we have to be Mr. Wang Tong, as in the case of Mr. Wang Tong, the son of the text, to cultivate people who will open up a world of peace for all generations. Therefore, the first big problem of running a school is people.

Second, the teaching mode of the academy

Today's academy, especially the private academy, how to do, we are trying. The model we try is to run a farming school, according to the "half-day farming, half-day reading" of the sunny farming and reading tradition. The benefits of the farming and reading model:

1, to remove the impatience of the air, calm the mind

Modern society is too impetuous, let the students come up to read the classics, it is difficult to read into, to let him first quiet down. There are many ways to calm the mind, traditional farming has the characteristics of heaven and earth, spring, summer, fall, harvest and winter, there is a set of laws, there is no hurry (except for scientific and technological agriculture), students can take this opportunity to sharpen their temperament.

2, the establishment of the unity of man in the universe

Traditional Chinese culture, especially Confucianism, is based on the agrarian civilization, first of all, we must establish the idea of the unity of man in the sky, and farming is the best way to experience the unity of man in the realm of man in the sky, otherwise, what the I Ching, the Book of Psalms, do not see the 24 seasons and what do I have to do? Winter heating, summer cold, bugs come to kill insects, everything against the sky, can understand the meaning of "my heart is the universe, the universe is my heart"?

3, exercise the muscles and bones, change the physique

Now the child's physique is too weak, one is long in the city, far away from nature, living in a long time in a steel and cement of the ruthless world; two is the problem of the food, nutrient energy is too low and poisonous, equivalent to the chronic drug; three is the brain is subjected to all kinds of electromagnetic interference for a long time, the brain neurological circuit structure of the problem, the lack of creativity. People want to be successful, first of all, must be a piece of material that can withstand the forging, so to return to nature, to be bitter, toiling their muscles and bones.

4, eliminating the weak-willed, leaving real seeds

Agricultural farming is very hard, especially ecological agriculture, afraid of dirty and tired afraid of suffering people can not last long will go, this is called the natural elimination, there is no pity, this little bit of suffering can not stand, but also can be counted on to do what it?

5, half-farming, half-reading, self-reliance

We are not charging tuition fees, but also discretionary allowances for students, which requires students to have a sense of autonomy and spirit, and actively participate in the construction of the College, at least be able to do to self-reliance, there is a surplus of agricultural products can be circulated to the market.

Our Apricot Grove Tonghui Shuyuan, in Beijing's Shunyi district, is 10 kilometers from the capital airport. It has 90 acres of farmland, 500 fruit trees, 120 apricot trees, 70,000 books, and accommodates 30 students.

The source of students, take the combination of enrollment and recommendation, domestic students from the first year of college, after the admission only in the holidays into the reading school, usually in accordance with the bibliography listed in the academy of self-study, does not affect the normal order of colleges and universities. Students are required to learn the basic courses well, such as ancient languages, mathematics, English, logic and other public **** classes, without considering the employment issue, as much as possible to listen to lectures of other departments to expand their knowledge. After graduation, they are enrolled in the academy for one year and are recommended for employment by the academy. Junior and senior current students, after graduation, to be enrolled in the bookstore for 2 years, always subject to three years of full-time national education, in order to lay the foundation.

Resident students 15 people per term, 1/3 elimination rate, and then employment aspirations to choose, and ultimately precipitated, able to inherit the Confucian academic thinking, take the road of education is probably less than 5 people, we will do our best to cultivate them, so that they become revitalization of Confucianism, re-establishing the Confucian Way of the great talent.

Three, preserving the rituals of several extinct schools.

The functions of the traditional academy centered around lecturing, book collection, rituals and ceremonies. Among them, lecturing, book collection is okay, rituals into several extinct. The lack of faith in the country, filial piety collapsed, Confucius of the worry of the "moral hard to repair, learning is not speaking, heard that righteousness can not migrate, not good can not change" can not be said to be related to the lack of rituals. How to restore the tradition of sacrifice is a big topic, but the academy to maintain the performance of rituals, the preservation of the performance of rituals should be.

Ritual civilization is the backbone of Confucian tradition, which is directly reflected in practical life and is inseparable from the five elements of daily life. How to rebuild the Confucian rituals today, I am afraid that only within the scope of the Academy is feasible, it is recommended that we start with each academy, communicate with each other, support each other, and ultimately there is a unity, and then influence the community.

Successful academies must have their own original academic ideas and souls, and it does not matter if they cannot reach them at the moment, but they should aspire to them. Today's academy, the private more for the Meng Hall, the government-run more for the subsidiary institutions of higher education, academic ideas have been moved away to apply for research funding to go, the soul of the person willing to give you a name on the upper sign, and then the soul of the soul is simply invisible.

Masters can't be found, but it's still possible to get a big one.

The permanent tutor of the academy should be a Confucian scholar of virtue and behavior, as well as a great man of nationalism who can be invited to the ceremony. He has to really love the national studies and his students. Students have to pay homage to the teacher when they enroll in the school, and after observing the disciple ceremony for one year, both teachers and students have to trust each other in order to establish a deep teacher-student relationship. On the one hand, the teacher infects the students with his own moral character, and on the other hand, he is responsible for the students from reading to life, from cultivating the heart to laboring and maintaining the health of the students. The students will naturally honor their teachers and live up to their expectations.

The daily teaching is based on students' self-study, with tutors answering questions, regular lectures, stage examinations, and thesis evaluations. The book collection of the academy is open to all. Different schools of thought and different points of view are allowed to participate in the lectures and debates.

Fourth, teaching content considerations:

1, the Confucian representative of the "national" culture as the foundation, into the world culture of the excellent factors, the East and the West of the culture of the good things into. The classics are required to be read bilingually, and at least the Analects of Confucius and Laozi can be taught in English, or else they will not be able to go out into the world and engage in international exchanges.

2, life requires self-reliance, in addition to farming, the academy's odd jobs by the students and volunteer volunteers on a rotating basis, the academy opened to the "Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine" based on the Chinese medicine and health classes, and has a health garden, medicinal garden, students should learn to identify herbs, master the basic knowledge of medicine, the common diseases of the traditional Chinese medicine treatment methods.

3. Practical realization and reading go hand in hand. The academy's first courses in mindfulness kung fu, meditation and stillness, and research and development of brain functions are designed to help students combine learning and experience to form the true learning in their own lives.

4. To restore the tradition of the six arts, students choose one of the six arts, such as zither, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, song and other arts, as a cultivation skill, so as to achieve the richness and elegance of life, and to realize the truth, goodness and beauty of the nature of the heart, and to bring about a qualitative change in life.

There will not be many students who can really settle down, nor can there be many, and those who have prospered in the past are only three or five. Those who have settled down are the seeds of the academy, and they have to take up the mission of "carrying on the great learning for the past saints".

As for the direction of other students, it depends on their own volunteers and characteristics of the heart, suitable for politics in politics, suitable for teaching in teaching, suitable for business in business, always suitable for their own characteristics as well, the principle is that the academy is responsible for recommending to their member companies, which need to study overseas, international exchanges, are funded by the academy at its discretion.

The people cultivated by the academy are social talents, not only for my use, they go into the society, spread the concept of the academy, the Confucian ideals sprinkled to the world is not better?

Fifth, the financial problems of the academy

The last one is the financial problems of the academy, there is no money to keep people, the academy will not go far. Most of the ancient academies have their own school fields, can be self-sufficient, plus the donations of the gentry, living is no problem. Today's academy so run into the montgomery, entrepreneurs of private halls, colleges and universities, most of the subsidiary organizations related to funding, relying on academic is very difficult to live, not to mention live well, live out of the quality.

Our cultivation academy, have their own academic field, house, self-support, not a big problem. However, the operation cost of the academy is to be self-financed. The academy has its own company, its own programs, its own operating income, as long as not greedy, do not waste the name, stick to it, become a "leftover" is a success.

Historically, many schools do not go on, not entirely economic reasons, most of the conceptual, political and personnel factors, such as Mr. Ma Yifu's Fuxian Academy, Mr. Qian Mu's Xinya Academy, are related to the core of the concept of the person, the authorities' interference, and today's school is even more difficult to do a hundred times. Many private schools are run secretly, refusing interviews and visits, and the difficulties involved are not enough for outsiders to know.

We are planning to organize a farming school, how far it can go, no one is sure. I'm just trying to make a start, to throw a brick to attract jade. Successful, summarize the experience, in order to later do better; failure, tell everyone that this road is not, another way. In short, just plow, do not care about the reputation, try to do their best, only to be worthy of heaven and earth, ancestors, sages.