王充是东汉初期杰出的唯物论思想家,他站在法家的立场上,对孔孟之道进行了猛烈批判,对儒家反动的自然观也展开了针锋相对的斗争。认真研究一下王充的唯物论自然观及其对唯心论自然观的斗争,至今仍可得到有益的启示。王充的唯物论自然观的形成决不是偶然的,乃是两汉之际阶级斗争、生产斗争和科学实践的产物。西汉末年,绿林、赤眉的大规模农民起义,不仅用大刀、长矛批判了当时的反 Wang Chong was an outstanding materialistic thinker in the early Eastern Han Dynasty. Standing on the position of the legalist, Wang Chong violently criticized Confucius and Mencius and started a tit-for-tat struggle against the Confucian reactionary nature. To carefully study Wang Chong’s naturalistic concept of materialism and his struggle against the idealistic concept of nature can still be usefully enlightened. The formation of Wang Chong’s concept of materialism and nature is by no means an accident, but a product of class struggle, production struggle and scientific practice during the Han and Han Dynasties. In the late Western Han dynasty, the large-scale peasant uprising in green forests and red eyebrows not only criticized the then anti-Chinese revolution with big knives and spears