A Preliminary Research On Guan Zi Xi Yi Of He Ruzhang

As one of the books written by the pre-Qin philosophers, Guan Zi mainly talks about how to make the country rich and to build up its military power. It was researched, explained with notes, collated, distinguished the true and false or given annotation in the past dynasties. It’s shown that the Qing dynasty is the time when the philosophers are the most active. They focused on the study of Guan Zi at the early stage of Qing dynasty mainly based on the textology. Along with the transition of the social nature during the late Qing dynasty, the thought which makes a country more prosperous and powerful and ensure people live happily was treated as a effective prescription to save the nation in this book. Besides the traditional study, it’s formed unique research direction by the combination between Guan Zi and the humanistic pragmatism thought which means using the knowledge from the past dynasties to govern the nation. In this big background, He Ruzhang wrote the book, Guan Zi Xi Yi, via researching Guan Zi.The main body of this thesis investigated the historical background from the writing background of Guan Zi Xi Yi and all He Ruzhang’s life. That is to say under the increasingly serious contradiction at home and abroad in the late Qing dynasty, He Ruzhang began to write his book because of the defeat in the naval battle. And so did Zhang Peilun. Then it respectively makes investigations which are from the content classification, the stylistic rules, the spreading, author and the book and so on, emendations which are from analyzing the sections and chapters, the words and expressions and the amendment of the past investigation, annotations which are from the relationship between Guan Zi and Zhou Li, the further meaning of Guan Zi expounded by He Ruzhang, the thought which makes a country more prosperous and powerful and ensure people live happily and military ideology. It investigates the He Ruzhang’s study of Guan Zi as a whole.The last part is evaluation of Guan Zi Xi Yi. As an annotation study of the whole body, Guan Zi Xi Yi has occupied an important place in the studies of Guan Zi in the Qing dynasty. But it is not the case. After the book, Guan Zi Xi Yi, was completed, which was not carved, and there was few people who could read it because of slight attention. Guan Zi Ji Jiao that is written by Guo Moruo quotes a lot of items of He Ruazhang’s Guan Zi Xi Yi, which lets the descendants see the study of He Ruzhang. The article makes an objective appraisal, which considers and discusses the value and deficiencies of Guan Zi Xi Yi and combines the influence on the later ages.There are lots of mistakes in Guan Zi Xi Yi, but as an annotation study of the whole body, its contribution is considerable. And it not only provides a kind of insight, but also does its bit. To the inheritance of the thought which makes a country more prosperous and powerful and ensure people live happily He Ruzhang combined the social condition when he studied Guan Zi has the important era value, which still has guiding function up to now.