A Study On Wei Xi's Zuo Zhuan Jing Shi Chao

Zuo Zhuan Jing Shi Chao writed by Wei Xi has a distinct era characteristic.It is the representative work of punctuation and annotation on Zuo Zhuan within early Qing dynasty,and it eflects the pragmatism of early Qing dynasty as well.Zuo Zhuan Jing Shi Chao was born in the late Ming and early Qing periods,whose political and academic thoughts are in transition,so it is infected with all sorts of ideas from the periods,such as the philosophy of Wang Yangming,the trend of giving lectures,the rehabilitation of ancient culture,and the pragmatism of early Qing dynasty.Mainly Wei Xi analyzes and elaborates the strategies to governing the country,which are contained in the historical events in Zuo Zhuan,when he is punctuating and annotating Zuo Zhuan Jing Shi Chao.We can find it that he challenges the absolute power of monarch in Wei Xi's punctuation and annotation.It shows the democratic light in the scholar-bureaucrats' mind during the Ming and Qing dynasties.The emphasis on tactics and wisdom in Zuo Zhuan Jing Shi Chao embodies the thought of Political Strategists,with which blend Wei Xi's mind about Confucianism.As the adherent of the Ming dynasty,Wei Xi lives in seclusion on the Cuiwei mountain after the Ming dynasty,and does not have any intersection with the new regime.He constantly rethinks why Ming dynasty carried off,and makes it his business to rejuvenate and stabilize country.Wei Xi put his patriotic feeling and ambition into the writing,to reflect and criticize the history of Ming dynasty,that is an important topic into the academic of adherents.Although Wei Xi mainly comments on statecraft and explicates historical essays in Zuo Zhuan Jing Shi Chao,but as a great litterateur in the early Qing dynasty,he also attaches great importance to the literary value of Zuo Zhuan.Wei Xi's comments on narrative language,characters' language and the writing skills of ZuoZhuan,not only reveal his outstanding literary viewpoints,but also provide some guidances to later scholars.Generally,Zuo Zhuan Jing Shi Chao has less literary theoretical summary than other works,which mainly comment on the writing skills of ZuoZhuan.By the trend of giving lectures from Ming to Qing dynasty,Wei Xi has created Zuo Zhuan Jing Shi Chao to teach students.There are some endless debates between students and teacher during class.Later Wei Xi has entered these debates into his work,that grants a unique way of punctuation and annotation to his work.Besides,this work has the vigorous and unrestrained style of punctuation and annotation due to his talking strongly.Thanks to these features,Zuo Zhuan Jing Shi Chao become a unique work,among the works of the critics to Zuo Zhuan in the early Qing dynasty.As the representative work of punctuation and annotation on Zuo Zhuan within early Qing dynasty,Zuo Zhuan Jing Shi Chao has not only the value of academic commentary,but also the historical value,literary value,and ideological value.Researching Zuo Zhuan Jing Shi Chao systematically could enrich the punctuation and annotation on Zuo Zhuan,and find the meaning of administering a country and composing in Zuo Zhuan as well.In addition,it could provide some supplementary information for the study of scholar-bureaucrats' mind in the Ming and Qing dynasties.