Jia Yi's "book" Research

Though he had a very short life, JiaYi had written lots of articles. The 58 pieces (two of them were lost) were embodied in XinShu, which comprised very varied parts. The political articles of XinShu, which represented the highest theory levels for politician of that time because of the comprehensive and embedded studies, closely associated with society situations of the early stage of the Western Han dynasty, much of which connected to nation constructions and residents lives. The following three aspects on XinShu have been studied and discussed in this thesis: writing and chapters, coming down and edition systen, basic structures.The first point discussec is about the writing and chapters. In this section, the writing experiences of Jiayi were first discussed, meanwhile, the written times of every chapter for XinShu were also researched. At the same time, the connected chapters of sutras of old times, such as the DaDai Book of Rites, were also analyzed and compared with XinShu. Finally, the coming down for several pieces of odes and correlation with XinShu were textual researched.The second point discussed is about coming down and edition system of XinShu. In this chapter, the coming down of XinShu have been researched by analyzing related papers of bibliography published in the past dynasties. Base on these results, the ancestral book which has handed down from ancient times can be confirmed in the present article, then the tree-like chart for edition coming down system has been drown. Finally, the representative editions in the course of coming down have been evaluated mainly.The third point discussed is about the basic contents and their thought achievements. After analyzing political and social cultural background and JiaYi's experiences completely, JiaYi's learning about the origin which is basic on Confucius and combine among Confucius, Taoism and legist has been discussed in this chapter. The main thought contents of XinShu can be concluded as followings: The political opinions onweakening vassal state and restricting Hun had been put forwarded according to the prominent society conflicts. The economical policies of stabilizing community by making people rich had been provided according to the development of society and economic situation of that time. Experiences and lessons for the extinction of Qin Dynasty were concluded. The thoughts on governing a country by rules of the rites and benevolence were advanced.By studying the above three questions, a complete comprehensive research for XinShu has been finished at the standpoint of classical literature in this dissertation, and efforts has been made to try to create some novel conclusions as follows:Few of scholars paid attention to the relation between ode and XinShu of JiaYi , and the knowledge of this remains blurry. In the present paper, the dim problem has been analyzed and novel opinion on the relation between ode and some chapters of XinShu has been brought forward.Though the fact that a few chapters in XinShu are identical with the DaDai Book of Rites has been given attention by former scholars, the results are superficial. In this paper, the interrelation among XinShu and the DaDai Book of Rites or the Book of Rites has been discussed by detailed analyzing the Book of Rites origin at the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty.The present paper has made up the blank for general research of XinShu's edition by describing the original edition system.