Reaserach On Cai Yong "Yue Ling Annotations"

"Yue Ling" is a codified work that guides and prescribes the ancestors’ farming production and living etiquette in the order of time,and embodies the ancestors"concept of the unity of nature and man in national govern ance.Since it was compiled into the "Book of Rites of Xiao Dai" in the Han Dynasty,it has become a Confucian classic and has been studied and annotated in all dynasties.Among them,the "Yue Ling Annotations" written by Cai Yong in the Eastern Han Dynasty was an earlier and more important one.Cai Yong singled out the "Yue Ling" as a single chapter and sentence,eager to exert its political practicability and realize its ideal of safeguarding the monarchy and making words lasting in the world.Cai Yong was born in the ChenLiu family,and he studied classics from a young age.He had a profound knowledge of classics,and he paid most attention to the study of rites.The compilation of "Yue Ling Annotations" was the concentrated embodiment of his thought of rites,"The Book of Sui" classics category collected this book for twelve volumes,to the Song Dynasty most of the catalog has no load.With the revival of classical studies in the Qing Dynasty and the vigorous development of lost studies,this book re-entered th e attention of sch olars in the form of a collection,which provided a powerful benefit for the study of the development of ritual studies in the Eastern Han Dynasty and Cai Yong’s thought of ritual studies.Cai Yong annotated the "Yue Ling" in the form of chapters and sentences,because the chapters and sentences were in line with his explanatory requirements for the elaboration of subtle and profound meaning.It can be found that Cai Yong paid attention to the interpretation and discrimination of words and phrases in the annotations of the "Yue Ling".On the basis of sorting out the scrptures,Cai Yong corrected the errors of words and phrases in the scriptures according to "Zhou Guan" and other documents,and supplemented and improved the etiquette system mentioned in the scriptures.At the same time,he also paid attention to the practical significance of the "Yue Ling".He combined the seasons with the realpolitik and endowed the "Yue Ling" with more profound enlightenment and moral value.Cai Yong’s "Yue Ling Annotations" is the earliest extant single-line text annotating "Yue Ling·Book of Rites",which can be used as a reference for Zheng Xuan’s "Yue Ling Annotations",As the end of the eastern Han dynasty academic masters,annotations of the rites enveloped reflects a profound Confucian classics literacy,and under the time background of theory of Yin Yang and ChenWei together the specific influence of Confucian classics study.However,through the comparison of specific texts,it can be found that there are significant differences in the interpretation of the author,ritual system and ritual system,which reflects the uniqueness of Cai Yong’s "Yue Ling Annotations" from that of pure scholars.The all-encompassing features of the "Yue Ling" determined that the contents of"Yue Ling Annotations" were also rich.Cai Yong had brilliant discussions on astronomy,calendar and music knowledge in the "Yue Ling",and the well-read thought contained in the "Yue Ling" reflected the changes of new ideological trends in the late Han Dynasty,providing valuable literature materials for later scholars to study the ideological understanding of the people of the time.