Confucian Classical Structure’s Formation And It Changes In The Early Modern Japan

By the "The Great Learning", "The Doctrine of the Mean", "The Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius" composed of "Four Books system", is an important part of the Confucian classic structure, and its development is interior-exteriorly related with Neo-confucianism’s, this process started at Han Yu, Li Ao, followed by Er Cheng, Zhang Zai, formed in Zhu Xi. "Four Books" had a profound and important influence for China, even the "East Asian world" since it became the Imperial Examination’s references in the Yuan Dynasty. However, "Four Books" to be extremely influential in the "East Asian world", the Tokugawa Japan’s Kogaku scholars took the lead in criticism of zhu zi’s philosophy, it is also deconstruction of the "Four Books system", furthermore, highlights the pragmatism and nationalism in the process. This change, although only "academic event", if then from the background of "East Asian world" for investigation, it is not only the beginning of Japan for "Chinese thought", "Chinese culture" and "China" to deny, but also the Japan’s modernization whicn different from Chian’s historical reason. Therefore, this article from the history of ideas perspective to look into, for the early-modern’s East Asian world as the stage of history, to for China and Japan have had major impact of the "Four Books system" as the center, around the "Four Books system" in China the formation process and its process of deconstruction in Japan, which highlighted China and Japan further away in the same structure of the Confucian classicsThis article is divided into two parts, partⅠand partⅡ.The partⅠis divided into two chapters, the first chapter concentrates on "The Great Learning", "The Doctrine of the Mean", "The Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius"’s circulation state before the "four books systems" formed. besides elaborating the "four books"’s inner logic, emphatically demonstrates the thought implicationthat the“four books”was annotated by the different time’s scholars. The second chapter starts on the basis that the neo-Confucian’s formation and development process, studys Han Yu, Li Ao, Zhou Dun yi, Er cheng, Zhang Zai, Zhu Xi etc, and what they engaged in the task of constructing the "Four Books system" while founding zhu zi’s philosophy. They take the Confucian orthodoxy theory as the starting points, on the one hand, uses "Yi Zhuan", "Doctrine of the mean" and "The Great Learning"’s key words, sentences, by way of constructing Neo-Confucianism to its new solution; On the other hand, in Neo-Confucianism’s view re-interprets "Confucian analects", "Mencius", this two sides are complementary to each other. To“four books”, they carry on Neo-Confucianism transformation, finally block-prints by Zhu Xi in "Four Books Collects", symbolizes“Four Book systems”official formation. And,“four books”becomes Imperial Examination’s references after the Yuan Dynasty, to be influential in the Ming-Qing Dynasties and "East Asian world", become East Asia intellectual spirit fountainhead.The partⅡis also divided into two chapters,is mainly revolving“Four Books system”which encounters doubt, critique, deny from different scholars after travelling to the Japan. This article selects the superme typically "anti-Zhuzi philosophy" figure in Tokugawa Japan----Kogaku’s Ito Jinsai and Ogyu Sorai, emphasizes them on criticizing Zhuzi philosophy process, is how to deconstruct of the "Four Books system". As a result of their different life experienceses, although all "anti-Zhuzi philosophy", because of them that received Zhuzi philosophy’s influence degree to be different, so "anti-Zhuzi philosophy "’s degree is also different, that is, two persons for "Four Books system"’s degree also have the difference. In the third chapter, elaborats that Ito Jinsai simplifying "Four Books system" to "Yu Meng system", during this process, Jinsai uses "Tao is human being’s Tao" as his Kogaku’s core thought for simplifying“Four Books system”-----"The Great Learning isn’t Confucius’s posthumous papers", "The Doctrine of the Mean is only text that interprets and develops the thoughts of The Analects of Confucius", so that,“four books”may take only "The Analects of Confucius"and"Mencius" two books, and, must use "Mencius" for expaining "The Analects of Confucius". In the forth chapter is about that Ogyu Sorai deconstructs the "Four Books system". his Kogaku is known as the Ancient Rhetoric, he discovered that the language has "Japan and Chinese", "ancient and modern"the difference, the Jinsai’s mistake lies in regarding the Japanese as the Chinese, the Song Confucian’s that regards ancient literature as modern literature. Hence, Sorai criticizes Song Confucian as well as Jinsai, and proposes the Ancient Rhetoric, therefore, he takes "six classics" as authentic re-interpreting the"Four Books system", not only cuts off Jinsai’s "Yu Meng system",but also disintegrates thoroughly "Four book systems", "Four Books" may take only the "Confucian analects", others are difficulty compared with“Six Classics”, it highlights Sorai’s "Tao theory" that the core is "Six Classics", "maintaining the world", this is also the key whicn he deconstructing the "Four Books system".The fifth chaper, that is conclusion part. In the part is mainly involved in Jinsai and Sorai’s for impact on Japan that they deconstructing the "Four Books system". On the one hand, they are critical of Zhu xi philosophy’s metaphysical content, and take the under-metaphysical part of the traditional Confucianism, pragmatism is emergencing gradually in the early-moden Japan. On the other hand, they deal with the out-break between "political identity" and "cultural identity" of China and Japan, all starting from the Japanese perspective, using the method of replacing concept, let Chinese Confucianism de-contextualization, China and Japan in the same Confucianism drifts away, And this move, but also stimulats the Japanese’s "nationalism" and "others consciousness" generation.