| Dai Zhen(January 19th in 1724-July 1st in1777),was born in Anhui Xiuning.He was always asking and learning,rigorous scholarship and convergent in the study of Confucian classics,astronomy,geography,arithmetic,linguistics,become a representative of the Anhui faction.At the same time,he emphasized the function of study,as the study for the exegetical practice,is an important figure of the Qing Dynasty exegesis.He worked hard in the exegesis of the book of songs,and had three monograph about that,namely the explanations of the book of songs(《诗经考》),the test of Mao and Zheng’s explanation of the book of songs(毛郑诗考正)and the fill note for the explanation of the book of songs by Gao Xi(皋溪诗经补注),these three works basically throughout his academic career.Dai Zhen’s exegetical content is very rich.In addition to the traditional meaning of explanation,he also noted that the correct text errors,to restore the original truth.Dai Zhen has a very high attainments in astronomy,geography,history,the etiquette system etc.These knowledge had been fully reflected in the content of the book of songs.In addition,he told the book of songs some text writing age,reason,and the main purpose,have careful textual researchThe meaning of the book of songs not only is the important content of Dai Zhen’s exegesis,but also is his ultimate aim in explaining.Wearing that the ancient classics contains meaning,he thought philology’s purpose is to elucidate it.He wants to elucidate the doctrinal,generally speaking,the propriety and righteousness.For him,the ceremony for the line,the table is its meaning.His explanation of the book of songs constructed a complete set of ritual system,on the basis of the ritual system and deep righteousness of kingcraft.From the book of songs Dai Zhen’s Interpretation,we can see his efforts for the reconstruction of the tradition of poetry teaching.Dai Zhen in the process of doing scholarly research,simultaneously took account of textual research and argumentation,he firstly catch on the poetry’s inverse,and then through the extensive literature comparison and fine deduction and demonstration.He believes that the ancient classics,including meaning,so the purpose of philology,is the elucidation of it.He wants to elucidate the doctrinal,generally speaking,the propriety and righteousness.The ceremony for the line,the table is its meaning;meaning.His explanation of the book of songs constructed a complete set of ritual system,on the basis of the ritual system and deep righteousness of kingcraft.Dai Zhen’s elaboration on meaning of the book of songs,can also be seen as the reconstruction of the tradition of poetry teaching efforts.There are four kinds of methods of Dai Zhen’s study of the word in the book of songs,namely seeking meaning by comparison,dialect,the logic and the voice.Compared to seek meaning mainly is Dai Zhen,through the comparison of a word in the literature use,as well as their predecessors on the notes refer to the interpretation of the meaning of the word.Seeking meaning by dialect mainly refers to the data using the ancient Chinese dialect or the dialect of Dai Zhen’s time.Seeking meaning by logic,refers to according to the context or correspondence between the word lines to study the meaning of words.Dai Zhen through the four exegetical methods,or corrected previous errors,or clarify our predecessors are not issued,has pushed the exegesis of the book of songs to a new height.Dai Zhen’s exegetical terms are not unified,and the same term sometimes has different meaning.It is complex.Dai Zhen’s exegetical works of the book of songs,although belonging to the different academic stage,but from exegetical terminology and use,and no too big difference.Therefore,this paper will also study them together.Dai Zhen’s exegesis terms had twenty,they or phonetic,or breaking interchangeability,or that cognates,or indicate the allograft,etc...Dai Zhen’s exegesis got a great achievement,and a certain influence on later generations. |
