The Dawn Of The Modern Study Of The Book Of Songs

Hushi and Wangbohang are the famous and excellent scholars in Republic of China, they are the representative researcher from to tradition to moder and Fangyurun and his Back the original intention of The book of songs are they detection that is without previous arrangement. That suggested Fangyurun and his book have the special meaning and status in the history of The book of songs.Fangyurun is the Confucian in the latter part of Qing dynasty. In his childhood, he had displayed the strong interest to the primal Confucianism. But as a common intellectual in the feudality, he must firstly be engaged in imperial examinations that is also the expectation from his family. Unfortunately, he can't carry out this idea. In his more than 20 years examination experience, Fangyurun suffered a defeat repeatedly. Finally, he decided to give up the imperial examinations, trying a kind of different successful route. Fangyurun Leaved his home town and become consultant in the feudal martial bureaucracy of the time. But Fangyurun personality is not suitable for to join the government, so he did not enjoy success very much. Finally, he leave the feudal martial bureaucracy with the regret. Fangyurun is continuously disappointed in the official career that lead him cancel the dream of rendering outstanding service and being famous by politics approach. Under the dual influence of childhood experience and Confucianism inertia, Fangyurun began to write and compile in order to the immortality.Fangyurun was born in Guangnan County of Yunnan province that is a minority inhabited a region and reserved many customs and habits which different from the Han nationality's. That provided many convenient conditions for him to understand some poems in The book of songs. The time of Fangyurun is the Last phase of feudalistic society, Under the cultural background of the Western civilization beginning to aggress and the social background of the underlying crisis of Chinese nation ,and by the influence of consciousness saving the nation from extinction and Chinese orthodox...