The Studying Of Fu Sheng And The Commentary Of The Book Of Documents

The Commentary of the Book of Documents is the commentary of The Book of Documents. Its contents also have been quoted by other books. Its author is the earliest spreader of The Book of Documents——Fu Sheng. However, the studying of Fu Sheng and The Commentary of the Book of Documents is very scare. We will carry on the analysis to this related contents in this article. Fu Sheng is the respected master of Confucianism for the generation who is known by many people but few people know his life. The living of Fu has researched Fu Sheng's living, which was written by the scholar Chen Feisheng of Qing Dynasty, but there are many mistakes in the book. Firstly, we research the livings to the related Fu of five aspects. That is "the test about the age of Fu Sheng's living", "the test about Fu Sheng's teaching The Book of Documents", "the test about Fu Sheng for Qin's Doctor", "the test about Fu Sheng's department of clan", "the test about spreading of The Book of Documents". We not only research the mistakes in The living of Fu,but also quote others in order to get the truth. Fu Sheng teaches The Book of Documents,he has thousands of students, Zhang Sheng,Ou Yangsheng and other students collected the language of the induction together and wrote a book ,that is The Commentary of the Book of Documents, so we see the book written by Fu Sheng in the world. The Commentary of the Book of Documents contains many contents, but the words of The Book of Documents is obscure. It easy to understand, even can understand the matters of the ancient. There are higher historical fact and the literature values. As early as Song Dynasty, The Commentary begins to lose. Till Yuan and Ming Dynasty, there wasn't complete book in the world. In Qing Dynasty, scholars looked for the lost languages of The Commentary in all kinds of books, edited many versions. These versions were edited in different time, so their contents were also different. Chen Shouqi's and Pi Xirui's versions were the best. Even though,there were left languangs. For example, The Commentary in Pronunciation and Meaning of all Confucian books isn't seen in any versions. Although The Commentary had many versions and it was collected in the modern age, nobody studied its concrete contents. We study the contents in the last section. For the sake of the convenience, according to Chen Shouqi's version, I divide the incomplete text into several parts. Include Sacrifice,Provide for the old man,Astronomy,Geography,Hunt,Abdicate the throne,Pay a courtesy call on the emperor,Penal code and so on. Because of the limited time and level, I only study Sacrifice and Provide for the old man. The section of Sacrifice mainly research to study the etiquette in Sacrifice in ancient. The section of "Provide for the old man" mainly according to The Commentary,quotes other books, to systematically study the system of Provide for the old man before Qin Dynasty. In order to offering consultation to scholars.