Text Of Open Conversion, And The Significance

As long as Jingxization(经学化) is concerned, it is always described as the result of "banning all schools of thoughts except Confucianism"(独尊�'术,罢黜百家). This view, however, has yet to be refused through deeper rethinking, not only because it neglects some other key aspects of the exterior complicated causes, but also because the interior causes for so long remained discursively concealed and marginalized. Consequently, it becomes rather essential to recognize Jingxization in its many aspects-from the text itself of Book of Songs to the medium, which conducts the meaning of the text to the Confucian scholars who articulate the text from their own incisive perspective.In this essay, the author argues that Jingxue can achieve its dominant position in almost 2000 years only when it is or could be read receptively open to Confucian scholars. In the process of Jingxization, it seeks to avoid any determinative view of the text that would foreclose the possibility of critical reflection by imagining that the text admits various levels of interpretation, which are discontingent on material determination.The analysis of the text should also include its medium which conducts its meaning. And in section 2 of this essay, the author provides detailed studies about this project that situates the text of Book of Songs in its social and historical circumstances. This would involve examining the mechanism of "the Book of Songs presenting the intention" (诗言志), addressing such questions as what's original state of the trinity of speaking , singing and dancing, what's state of the deconstruction of that trinity and what unanticipated consequences was resulted in this transition.With morality-teaching in mind, the Confucian scholars reread the text of Book of Songs for ethics. Thus the text emerges as a theory-support of ideological discourse reconstruction monitored by Emperors in each dynasty. The consequences of such rereading pattern, undoubtedly, are wide-ranging.In a word, the openness of the text of Book of Songs, the deconstruction of the trinity of speaking, singing and dancing, and the inevitable imposition of Confucian scholars' intention, privileged by the emperors in almost every dynasty, all ensure that Jingxue would occupy a dominant position in the last 2000 years in China.