| As the classical recordation about Confucius, his disciples and contemporaries, the Confucian Analects is the pivotal text so that scholars used it to study exegesis and the name of material systems and build construction of principle. The interpretation of The Analects of Confucius in the Qing Dynasty presented a constantly changing picture along with the interaction between the evolution of Confucian classics and social changes, academic changes as well as cultural development. Many academic schools rose in Jiaqing and Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. Textology in the reigns of Qianlong and Jiaqing influenced a wider range in academia, and Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism gradually revived. At the same time, academic atmosphere converts into pluralism because New Text Confucianism in Qing Dynasty sprang up and Western learning spread into China. Since the Jiaqing and Daoguang period, the study of the Analects of Confucius emerged in endlessly and it affected by its academic atmosphere deeply.In this academic background, Huang Shi-san, a scholar of East Zhejiang Province, used his whole life to write compositions. The most famous of his compositions, Annotation On The Analects, what coordinated the Han and Song school of classical philology, possessed realistic principle, eliminated schools’ prejudice, and used the method of exegesis and construction of principle to annotate classic text. Annotation On The Analects quotes a shocking number of academic achievement on the Confucian Analects and it focused on Zheng xuan, Zhu xi, Dai zhen’s academic theory. It keeps the positive attributes of their theories, while removing the negatives. We can find that it formed a unique academic ideology system because Annotation On The Analects used Zheng xuan’s propriety ideology to lead classical scholarism and used Dai zhen’s principle ideology to build main frame, at the same time adopted Zhu xi’s methodology according to Huang Shi-san’s academic ideology.In the experiences of specific exegesis of the Analects Confucius, Huang Shi-san tried to restore the sentence from the Analects Confucius by textual criticism. Thereby reaching the goal that studying is for a better use in reality. Annotation On The Analects proficiently used the textual criticism skills and through mutual demonstration of the Analects and another four literatures. Its conclusion not only can prove itself, but also can claim what is brand new.In addition, this important composition, Annotation On The Analects, is a transition of academic history of East Zhejiang province. Huang Shi-san has trained a large number of students by giving lectures in school for a long time when he was writing Annotation On The Analects. Some of his students continued to engage in study of the Confucian Analects,some had continued to interpret Huang Shi-san’s academic ideas what coordinated the Han and Song school of classical philology, and they had important influence in the late Qing dynasty and early Republic of China’s academic history.Therefore, Annotation On The Analects inherited textology in the reigns of Qianlong and Jia Qing and developed propriety ideology both of Zheng Xuan and Dai zhen. It also promoted the development of exegesis and construction of principle. It has unique position in the academic history of Annotation On The Analects so it still has important reference value for people who want to research the Confucian Analects today. |
