Textual Researching The Confucianist Commentaries On The Book Of Filial Piety By Ancient Writings From Japan

Taizaichun,a Japanese scholar published the Confucianist Commentaries on the Book of Filial Piety by Ancient Writings in Xiangbao seventeenth(1732),then the book which was bought by Bao Tingbo's friend Wang Peng in Nagasaki Japan was took back to China.The scholar in Qing Dynasty began to discuss about the authenticity of the book after the book taken back.Some people,as Lu Wenshao,Wang Mingsheng thought that this book was long-gone Chinese classic books.But Ruan Yuan,Sun Zhizu and others thought that this book was counterfeit by Japanese.Meanwhile,some one considered that this book was real but the author of the book was not Kong Anguo.Zheng Zhen thought that this book was counterfeit by Liu Xuan,but Ding Yan thought it was counterfeit by Wang Su.Debate continues today for this question,opinions vary,failed to reach a unified opinion.However the viewpoint that the book was not counterfeit by Japanese,but it is Chinese classic books was verified by Liu Xuan in XiaoJingshuyi in Sui Dynasty,which is no doubt.Liu Xuan,who praise highly of the Confucianist Commentaries on the Book of Filial Piety by Ancient Writings and wrote XiaoJingshuyi to explain the Confucianist Commentaries on the Book of Filial Piety by Ancient Writings.Due to the close relations between XiaoJingshuyi and the Confucianist Commentaries on the Book of Filial Piety by Ancient Writings,the viewpoint that XiaoJingshuyi is Chinese classic books which was not counterfeit by Japanese will be testified by XiaoJingshuyi in this article.The viewpoint that the Confucianist Commentaries on the Book of Filial Piety by Ancient Writings was not counterfeit by Liu Xuan will be made up proves as while.From the lexical analysis and the term roots perspective,and according to the literature,some wording in the Confucianist Commentaries on the Book of Filial Piety by Ancient Writings was later used than Kong Anguo in Han Dynasty.The historical records Learned that Filial Piety by Ancient Writings and Shangshu by Ancient Writings were both out of Kong's hole wall,however there were different account about the same question in"the Book of Preface",therefore the author of those two books was not the same person.It is demonstrated that the Confucianist Commentaries on the Book of Filial Piety by Ancient Wriings was not written by Kong Anguo in Han Dynasty,but it was counterfeit by futurity.Besides,we can speculate the time when the book was written by comparing the different account about the same question in the Perface of Filial Piety and Shangshu.