Prisoner of the Confucian Coordinate System: Yang Lihua's Systematic Cosmological Blindness

This paper employs the Lao-Yang Genesis Cosmology (LYGC) as its analytical framework to conduct a deep critique of the systematic errors made by Yang Lihua, professor in the Department of Philosophy at Peking University, in his interpretation of pre-Qin philosophy. The target of critique is not Yang Lihua's personal scholarly cultivation — his textual mastery in the domain of Confucian Neo-Confucianism is beyond doubt — but rather the fundamental coordinate system upon which his methodology operates: a closed cognitive system that takes Confucian moral psychology (xinxinglun) as its highest arbiter, a system within which the vertical dimension of cosmology has never appeared. The paper proceeds through seven levels of argumentation: First, tracing the structural implantation of Yang Lihua's academic genealogy, revealing how Confucian-centrism completed an unconscious coordinate installation during his formative period, causing all subsequent judgments to unfold within the internal rules of the Confucian coordinate system. Second, critiquing his textual-chronological dissolution of the Laozi's cosmology and his political-technological demotion of wuwei (non-action). Third, exposing his ideological operation of using the label 'more like religion' to eliminate Mohism as a cosmological competitor. Fourth, deconstructing his continuation of the two-thousand-year slander against Yang Zhu's 'self-for-self.' Fifth, analyzing the fundamental cosmological limits of his 'li-monism.' Sixth, applying the Sage Entropy formula (dS/dt = ρᵣ · DAF / ΔCCF) to provide a quantitative diagnosis of his paradigm. Seventh, interrogating whether a self-satisfied professor of philosophy at Peking University is ignorant or shameless, and clarifying his danger — more dangerous than the crude denier is the sophisticated concealer. The core proposition of this paper is: Yang Lihua's methodological deficiency does not lie in peripheral details but in the fact that he has never truly understood the cosmological dimension represented by the proposition 'The Milky Way reflected in the Han River is the Dao.' He has studied Laozi for decades, yet has never looked up to see the Milky Way that Laozi saw from the banks of the Han River. A person who has never looked up to see the Milky Way, however profound his textual mastery, is utterly blind at the cosmological level. This is not a personal attack on Yang Lihua; it is a fundamental critique of a paradigm. When this paradigm occupies the professorial chair of the Department of Philosophy at Peking University, when it mass-replicates itself to tens of thousands of students annually through classrooms and publications, its harm to the cosmological inheritance of Chinese civilization is far more profound than any external critic.