Study On The Achievement Of ZhengXuan's Annotation Of Rites In The Exegetics History

As an exegetics book, ZhengXuan's Annotation of Rites shows full systematic character of Exegetics as a science of learning. First, Annotation of Rites is comprehensive, involving almost all aspects in the traditional Exegetics. Second, it also sets up a perfect system about terminology. Furthermore, ZhengXuan establishes theoretical principle about "meanings from sound" , according to which, he explores original meanings of a word, links words that are from the same origin, interprets borrowed words, and explains dialect changes, which extends the application to extraordinarily wide fields than ever before . Annotation of Rites overcomes the weakness of "meanings from sound", and breaks through the limitations about getting meanings from the word form.Annotation of Rites is an important symbol to show that the traditional Exegetics has been truly set up, and approached to maturity and scientific nature. The emergence of the book has huge power on the development of the traditional Exegetics.The presented paper uses some methods to analyze contents, terms and methodology on "meanings from sound" of Annotation of Rites, such as statistics, induction, comparison and description, and at last concludes its achievement in the history of Exegetics.