Dai Zhen Of The Confucian Classics Hermeneutics

Dai Zhen , who are good at both argumentation and textual research, plays a special role in the Qian-Jia School for his classical annotation of Confucian, which also makes his annotation thought an important case in Chinese annotation study. The development of his classical annotation of Confucian experienced early period, middle period and later period. In the early period, he thought letters are the abstract reflection of nature and the regulation of nature. Dai Zhen based on the six categories of Chinese characters and ERYA and tried to get the explanation, which is the closest to the original work of Confucians, to revert the original idea of letters through induction. In the middle period, he believed that text is "Daben" and "the soul of The Sage Master " embodied the root of the world. Also he made an effort to turn the knowledge which he inducted from textual research to "Daben" namely the spirit of the perfect unification of knowledge and morals of The Sage Master. Furthermore, he used it to instruct his induction and draw some reasonable conclusions. In the later period, he rethought his annotation thought in the former two periods, and set up the core of his annotation thought, "the soul of The Sage Master" and "the soul of the person" are equals, and he stressed the value and meaning of a person who is unique in the world to understand the necessity and try to be free in the unification of nature and necessity. The person who do the annotation used conclusion and hypothesis discriminately, and by emphasizing both argumentation and textual research, he tried to make knowledge and morals develop together. During the studies, he understood the spirit of Men of god little by little and finally he got to a state of kind and intelligent. Return to classical and try to be creative, then you will get a true and effective understanding of classical text.