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Exegetical Study On Lunyujizhu Of Zhuxi

Posted on:2013-02-11Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X LuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2235330371493749Subject:Chinese Philology
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As one member of the Four Books, The Analects of Confuciuswas included in the Confucian classics from the Eastern Han Dynasty. During the SouthernSong Dynasty, Zhu Xi Annotated The Analects of Confucius and it becameone of the Scholars Privacy Policy classics. Zhu Xi treated Analects of Confuciusquiteseriously, and spent lots of time. The Confucian classics were interpretated by moralprinciples. LunYuJiZhu developed to be official teaching materials after the Yuan andMing imperial examination, and was seen as the Analects study as a model.The introduction part of this article briefly describes that how the Analects ofConfucius was written and circulated, and describes the basis of this article topics and theresearch status of LunYuJiZhu. The body part is divided into four chapters.Chapter One summarized Zhu Xi’s achievements on classics, and explained themeaning and methods of this thesis. Zhu Xi re-established Confucian orthodoxy in terms ofideology, combined exegetics and philosophical connotations, replaced Six Classics byFour Books, and popularized the Confucianism.The second chapter discussed the exegetical content of Zhu Xi’s LunYuJiZhu by threeangles: the sound and meaning, emendation and philosophical connotations.Sound and meaning were the main content of this chapter. It was divided into eight parts:examining and revising the Pronunciation, interpreting meanings, translating sentences, signingpunctuation, researching grammar, researching rhetoric, summarizing the idea of the text,The Textual and the name of laws and institutions. The exegetical content of LunYuJiZhuwas comprehensive and punctilious. He paid attention to research on the originalmanuscript and the edition. On collating ancient works, ZhuXi envisioned the corruption,revealed the variants, revised the derivatives and patched the missing words.The third chapter compares ZhuXi with ZhengXuan and other people, aboutexegetical format, exegetical method, where they note and so on to reveal theexegetical style of Zhu Xi. The form of ZhuXi’s gloss was rigorous, present a mode by "correcting the pronunciation-explaining words in ancient books-summarizing theeffect-elucidating of moral principles". Most of the time, he used Yi-Xun to explain thespecific meaning, by Zhi-Xun, discriminating, summarizing and defining. Besidesexplaining the meaning, ZhuXi was more absorbed in elucidating moral principles, whichwas the largest difference between ZhuXi and other researcher of Han and Tang.From the annotated format, methods, and the choice of the injection point, I summedup the style of Zhu Xi exegesis:"Truth"-oriented, inherit Jin-wen Theory and mingledGu-wen’s advantage of exegetical, focusing on morality preaches.Chapter IV tried to see Zhu Xi’s Neo-Confucianist from his LunYuJiZhu. Interpret theNeo-Confucianist of LunYuJiZhu from the ontology, the theory of humannature, New-confucianism theory. ZhuXi put "Li"and "Qi" in the annotation of TheAnalects of Confucius, and he thought that "Li" was prior to "Qi";"Li" was the samewhile "Qi" was various. He proposed that mind dominated character and sentimental, thenencouraged people to explore the way to be a human being."Li-Yu" theory emphasizedself-discipline from the mind."GeWuZhiZhi" theory brought a systematiccultivation ways.
Keywords/Search Tags:Zhuxi, LunYuJiZhu, exegesis, Zhengxuan
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