泰州学派领袖王艮提出过一个著名命题:“百姓日用是道”。所谓“百姓日用”,用今天的话说,即平民大众的日常生活。视“百姓日用”为“道”,着眼于它来体道证道,一方面固然是施行儒家教化,将儒家对最高道德本体的追求,建构落实于最低下、最广泛的社会层面,但另方面亦空前地突出了“百姓日用”在社会系统中的地位、价值,明确地肯认了平民生活作为一种本体存在的现实合理性与不可剥夺性。这其实是近代平民意识的初露端倪。泰州王艮提 Taizhou school leader Wang Gen proposed a famous proposition: “people daily is the road.” The so-called “common people daily”, in today’s words, is the ordinary life of ordinary people. Considering that “daily use of people” is “Taoism”, we should focus on the evidence of Taoism. On the one hand, although Confucianism should be practiced on the one hand, Confucianism should be implemented in the lowest and most extensive social dimension at its lowest moral level On the other hand, the status and value of “common people’s daily life” in the social system have also been unparalleled prominently acknowledging the realistic rationality and inalienability of civilian life as a kind of ontology. This is actually the beginning of civic awareness in modern times. Taizhou Wang Gen mention