Abstract:
Wang Fuzhi was the synthesizer of ideologies of body philosophy in ancient China. He synthesized Chinese philosophy of human body by returning the Tao to its original shape in terms of phenomenalism and practicality, by projecting human body as the subject of universe in Chinese philosophy, by vividly presenting the established male and female nature of the Yin and Yang through returning this ontology to its original shape and by making it theoretically necessary to vivify time in his theory with the affirmation of human body and sexes. All these made Wang's theory of human body distinctive from the former Confucianist body theory and opened the frontier for the “post-Confucianism” in the Ming and the Qing Dynasty to return to the traditional Taoist body thinking in ancient China.
