"huainanzi Gao Annotation

Huainanzi ( 《淮南子》) was compiled by several thousands people who presided by Liu An in the Western Han Dynasty. The book had concluded completely and systemly the ideas of "Tao" in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty. By the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Huainanzi (《淮南子》) was annotated by Gao You. The notation of Gao You's which is the first one on Huainanzi (《淮南子》) we can see now, has been an important tool of studying on Huainanzi. ( 《淮南子》) The thesis generalizes Gao You's exegectical ways and measures by analysing the exegectical ideas in Gao You's notation. On one hand, the author acknowledges the huge successes of Gao You's notation. On the other hand, the author analyses and distinguishes the demerits in Gao You's notation on Huainanzi (《淮南子》) and clarified his own views on the base of studying other people's achievements.The thesis is composed of four parts. The first part briefly introduces the book, its notations and the history and progress in the studying on Gao You's notation. The second summarizes Gao You's exegectical ways and measures in his notation in the sound, form of some words, meaning, grammar, rhetoric, and so on. The third is the focus of the thesis. Through distinguishing and analysing, It classifies the demerits in Gao You's notation into the following categories: misunderstanding the analogy, phonetics loan characters, context, the meaning of words, distorting the historical facts, and so on. Finally, the author gives the notation of Gao You's a concluding remark.