The Study Of Wu Yi’s Treatises

During the Qianjia period of Qing Dynasty,scholars from Jiangsu,Zhejiang and Anhui were in a leading position in the study of historical research.Wu Yi grew up in the state of idealistic philosophy in Zhongzhou.He read ancient books and loved the epigraphy studies,so he became the mainstream of Qianjia’s sinology research.People at that time said that in his treatises,he had created and gained enough meaning to break through centuries of errors.He wrote hundreds of postscripts on epigraphy studies,which is said to be comparable with Qian Daxin’s Qian-Yan-Tang-Jin-Shi-Wen-Zi-Ba-Wei,and his academic achievements are absolutely not inferior to those of his contemporaries in the South of the Yangtze River.When he was a county magistrate in Shandong province,he was not afraid of the strong enemy,beat the officers of He shen,a superior magistrate with a sense of a powerful official.Zhu Gui,of Daxing,said he "admires the virtues of the ancients and can follow a straight path".In this paper,Wu Yi’s life track and academic activities are restored based on his collection of academic treatises,Shou-Tang-Yi-Shu,and his poems and essays,notes and local chronicles.Wu Yi’s learning has its origins.The family education he inherited when he was young,the intentional cultivation of his father’s generation,and the studious hard study of his own laid a solid foundation for his study of confucian classics.However,since the Kang-Qian period,the academic development gradually changed from idealistic philosophy to confucian classics,which changed the academic values of scholars to a considerable extent.Wu Yi was born in the important town of idealistic philosophy in Zhongzhou.After being frustrated in the examination three times,he was keenly aware of the trend of academic transformation.At that time,the emperor advocated literature,and princes and ministers competed to learn it,which formed a general atmosphere.They recruited scholars and Wu Yi was recommended by her teacher to enter the Shogunate of Zhu Yun.Under Zhu Yun’s guidance of advocating practical learning,Wu Yi gradually began to learn sinology,his learning progress was great,get the appreciation of the people at that time.In the shogunate,he communicated with Zhu Gui,Cheng Jinfang,Shao Jinhan,Huang Jingren and Hong Liangji,which expanded his circle of contacts and further improved and spread his academic knowledge.His treatise "Jing-Du-Kao-Yi" extensively collected the similarities and differences of sentence reading in classic books,judged the rights and wrongs of different people,and put forward many new opinions on sentence breaking.The most exciting part of this book is Wu Yi’s creative suggestion that the word "jian" should be read as "qian" according to the example of "Those who use hexagrams to explain their names should change their pronunciation." in the Book of Changes,which corrects the fallacy of thousands of years.But Wu Yi’s official position was not high,and his creations and contributions were ignored for years.Jing-Du-Kao-Yi is a pioneering treatise in the study of punctuation in China,and his academic achievements directly influenced scholars such as Yang Shuda and Yang Bojun.The treatise Qun-Jing-Yi-Zheng extensively quotes the original texts of seven classics,including Shangshu,as well as different commentaries of various scholars,to investigate the meaning of the classics and correct the mistakes in reversing the order,adding characters,incorrectly transmitting and reducing characters.In addition,this treatise also makes a comprehensive use of ancient classics and inscriptions to distinguish the similarities and differences between different scholars and supplement the details in the annotations.It is an important treatise of classical studies with careful textual research and many discoveries and creations.As an auxiliary tool for textual research,the epigraphy has the effect of proving classics and supplementing history and the prosperity of Qianjia textual research led to the revival of epigraphy.Major figures in the academic world have devoted themselves to the study of epigraphics.Wu Yi,who grew up in the hometown of Zhongzhou tablet carving,was fond of epigraphy since childhood.In the scholar shogunate,Wu Yi realized the importance of epigraphy,and Wu Yi transferred his interest in epigraphy at a young age to the ambition and interest of textual research.He respectively helped Bi Yuan,Ruan Yuan compiled "Zhong-Zhou-Jin-Shi-Zhi","Shan-Zuo-Jin-Shi-Zhi",he compiled the results of personal collection in "Yan-shi-Xian-Zhi · Jin-Shi-Zhi",and completed many epigraphy treatises,his quite many results were Wang Chang "Jin-Shi-Cui-Bian" included.Wu Yi,in the shogunate of Bi Yuan and Ruan Yuan,made friends with scholars such as Wang Chang,Weng Fanggang,Huang Yi,Sun Xingyan and Gui Fu,and participated in the mainstream academic dialogue during the period of Qianjia,which constituted an important link in the development of the study of epigraphy.Widely acclaimed "Long-Men-Si-Pin" was first discovered by Wu Yi.Wu Yi took the epigraphics as the media and constructed the epigraphy of Qianjia with the scholars at that time.In his later years,Wu Yi was invited to compile local chronicles in Henan province,extending his academic interests in the repair of chronicles.His local chronicles were refined in style,detailed and comprehensive in textual research,and were praised as famous chronicles by Liang Qichao.He drew on the strengths of Dai Zhen and Zhang Xuecheng,gave full play to his academic expertise,and formed a unique editing style.His practice enriched the theory of local chronicles in China,and left precious local documents for Zhongzhou.Behind Wu Yi’s academic thought is the academic ecology in the middle of Qing Dynasty.His academic growth course still has certain reference significance for the development of scholars and academic ecology.Wu Yi had successively entered Zhu Yun,Bi Yuan,Ruan Yuan of the shogunate,at that time the master accurate grasp the pulse of the times,to promote him to change the academic road.The shogunate provided a platform for academic exchange and guarantee for scholars from different regions.Wu Yi broke the geographical restrictions and formed an academic circle of central plains,Beijing,Jiangnan and Shandong.He also extended the radius of his life,realized the integration and interaction between the academic circles of the central plains and other regions,and made his academic and culture continuously spread and perfect.