Zhu Xi's Philology Achievements

Zhu-Xi was not only a philosopher of Li xue, but also a philologist. As the leading authority of Li xue,he could breakthrough the limitation of it and treated objectively the disadvantages of it. With his practical actions, he corrected the mistake and combined the Jing xue and Li xue and pointed out the way to new height. He loved philosophic theory with the equal emphasis on traditional textual research and succeed in differentiating and proofreading. Over a long period of time, Zhu Xi's philology achievements were overlooked by scholars because of his unique status. The article puts emphasis on his philology achievements and revealment of his important position in china traditional science. The thesis consists of three parts:preface,main text and conclusion.â… T he preface introduces current study on Zhu-Xi's philology achievements and illustrates the significance for choosing such a topic.â…¡T he main text composed of two chapters1, Zhu Xi's differentiating about books. Books that he asserted its false reached a figure of 60, covering the four class of Jing,Shi,Zi,Ji.Zhu Xi's textual research influenced many people, such as Wu Cheng,MeiZuo,YanRuoJu,GuXieGang. Compared with successors,the ways he used is simple ,but he is the first man that brought up a specific formula about discriminating books and adopted so many ways .With first discussion on the background of Zhu Xi's differentiating about books, this part centers on the meaning and ways of his differentiating to show his influence on the learning of the Qing dynasty.2,Zhu Xi's annotations. Books that he explained with notes reached a figure of 80, including sishujizhu,zhouyibenyi,shijizhuan,chucijizhu,xiaojinkanwu.As former philosophers of Song Dynasty , his purpose was to propagate his philosophy thought, but the difference is that he attached importance to traditional text explanation and accused scholars of Jin and Song of overlooking text reseach.This part discusses the characteristics and methods of his annotations to bring to light of his contributions to Chinese traditional science.â…¢C onclusion. In this part, writer summarize all this paper. And reveals his position in Chinese traditional philology.