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The Connoisseur - The Appreciation of Classical Ming Furniture Page 4 | everything.
In the Ming period, Wang Yangming’s (1472-1529 AD) interpretation of Mencius teaching of unifying knowledge and action and the concept of “innate knowing” consolidated the different schools derived from Confucian teachings.
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The core of Confucianism is to teach one how to behave well as a human being. The concept of “San-Cai” (three types of intelligence) is fundamental and key to understanding the Confucian scholar of the Ming period.
The word “Cai” derives from the word describing the sprouting or budding of a plant. Here “Cai” refers to intelligence
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