Su 'analects Of Confucius, Note

Wang Su is the first scholar studying"Confucian School's Analects". What the impact of Wang Su annotating " Confucian School's Analects " is initiating a great complicated legal case in the academic history. Keep disputing for a long time around the true and false question of" Confucian School's Analects ", and what Wang Su is considered to be following Liu Xin too forges experts. Because the wrting of Wang Su has almostly lost, " The Annotation for Confucian School's Analects " become the important text for studing the thougt of Wang Su. Meanwhile,make a careful and detailed analysis , summarize respectively to " The Annotation for Confucian School's Analects " , can offer one new research view and platform for researching the problem of" Confucian School's Analects " too.There has been much dispute over the question of Wang Su and "Confucian School's Analects" for a long period. Recently, the new unearthed materials offered a turning point for the proper recognition of these questions. Based on the new materials, "Confucian School's Analects" has been proved that Wang Su did not fabricate it. The relationship between Wang Su and "Confucian School's Analects" should be defined as annotate and being annotated. The reason why Wang Su annotated it was that the content of "Confucian School's Analects" has something to do with Wang Su's theory. Not only did he want to protect the book of the Sage from being lost, but also he thought Zheng Xuan' theory has lots of mistakes. In order to refute Zheng Xuan and to pass on the culture, he did this."The Annotation for Confucian School's Analects " has lots of items all together, referring to places, persons, utensils, institutions and so on. Its main content is expounding the intentions, clarifying the properties, doing textual research for names and substances, explaining the meaning and giving clear pronunciation of words, and correcting the sentences. The copious quotation, the objective explanation, the clear opinions, the brief annotation, the opposition ofdivination, the defense of the Sage's image and the emphasis on good sense could be considered as its characteristics. Wang Su's complicated thoughts combining Confucianism and Taoism together could be inferred from "the Annotation for Confucian School's Analects", which agreed with the trend of thought in Wei and Jin Dynasty.Wang Su pointed out many mistakes of "Confucian School's Analects" in his "the Annotation for Confucian School's Analects", which proved the authenticity of "Confucian School's Analects" internally, explained the important value of it and proved that "Confucian School's Analects" was not fabricated by Wang Su indirectly. From the characteristics mentioned above, we can see that Wang Su disagreed with Zheng Xuan, which could be considered as a self-transformation in the study of Confucian classics. It is because the epochal quality of Wang Su's theory and the mistakes of Zheng Xuan's theory, not because Wang Su fought against Zheng Xuan obstinately. Wang Su's theory continued from the study of Confucian classics in Han Dynasty and opened the metaphysics in Wei and Jin Dynasty, which conformed to the development trend of rational cognition. The transition is where its value lies.