Study On Commentaries On Confucianism Classics-from The Eastern And Western Jin Dynasties To The Northern And Southern Dynasties

Commentaries on Confucianism Classics in the Eastern and Western Jin Dynasties and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, being the source of Commentaries on Confucianism Classics and an important part of traditional Exegetics history, has influence on Chinese Academic for almost one thousand years. This debate attempts to give a systematic observation on the Commentaries on Confucianism Classics of these periods, put its subject right, tell the differences, research the reasons of evolution and transmutation, investigate the features of its substance and stylistic-rules-and-layouts, and outline its whole state at that time.The entire debate is composed of two parts.The first part is Chapter One. This part will define the intension and extension of Commentaries-on-Classics, and classify according to the features of its stylistic-rules-and-layouts, by investigating the subject and its stylistic-rules-and- layouts features in different Dynasties.Chapter Two is the second part. By neatly research and reorganization, part two will sort out all the books on the Commentaries on Confucianism Classics in Eastern and Western Jin Dynasties and the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Basing on this and integrating with historical records, we will approach the origins, evolution, features and the relationships between stylistic-rules-and-layouts of Commentaries on Confucianism Classics. Also we will point out its academic worth and impact in the history of Chinese Language Exegetics, by confirming to the definition and conclusion in part one.We consider that the so-called "Commentaries-on-Classics" should be divided into "Explanation" and "Reorganization". In the same name of "Commentaries-on-Classics", there are three kinds of exegetics stylistic-rules-and- layouts—JIANGSHUTI, SHUZHUTI, JISHUTI. Though their names are the nearly same, the intensions are different. Their definitions, connotations, stylistic-rules-and-layouts, and the evolution histories are different in somewhat degree. In Eastern and Western Jin Dynasties and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there were JIANGSHUTI and SHUZHUTI. JIANGSHUTI is the teaching materials and records on Confucian classics. At that time, Confucianism, Buddhism and Dark-learning were popular, and the academic atmosphere was liberal. Those who were inspired by the reorganization of Buddhism and Confucianism created JIANGSHUTI. Since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, JIANGSHUTI was in vogue instantly in the Northern and Southern Dynasties because of its comprehensive connotation and free stylistic-rules-and-layouts. Tremendous books on Commentaries on Confucianism Classics appeared. These valuable books affected the renaissance of Confucianism and the afterwards development of exegetics at that time.SHUZHUTI appeared after JIANGSHUTI. It combined the previous features. At that time, it was different from JIANGSHUTI and Commentary and Subcommentary to the Thirteen Classics in connotation and stylistic-rules-and-layouts. Its emergence and preliminary development had far-reaching impact both on the finish of Orthodox Interpretation of the Five Classics in Tang Dynasty, and the improvement and innovation of Commentaries on Confucianism Classics and traditional Exegetics.