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History Of The Former Han Dynasty And Scholarship Of The Classic Of Poetry In The Han Dynasty

Posted on:2013-12-01Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:H J WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1225330395971246Subject:History of Ancient China
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There are two clues of the study: first, the author tries to restore and enrich theorigins of scholarship of Classic of Poetry in Han Dynasty, and its social environment,development path and academic forms based on History of the Former Han Dynasty,with reference to Historical Records, History of the Later Han Dynasty, and otherhistorical materials; second, the author investigates the sequence of prefectures andcounties,and illustration of customs in The Di Li Record of the History of the FormerHan Dynasty by combining the academic fruits of the study of Classic of Poetry andexploring the scope of connotation of Liu Jing and Liu Yi in The Yi Wen Record ofthe History of the Former Han Dynasty, and the principles of sequencing Liu Jing,and analyze the background, connotation, and internal relations of Collection ofpoetry, Estabilishment of Music Bureau by Emperor Wu and The collection ofpoetry by Music Bureau in History of the Former Han Dynasty,so that academicviews of poetry of Liu Xin and Ban Gu on History of the Former Han Dynasty couldbe tapped and summarized.In the introduction, the author illustrates the research value, purposes of study,and methodologies of the study, and reviews the research findings of the subjectbefore.There are five chapters.In Chapter One, the origination of Poetry studies of modern scripts in FormerHan Dynasty recorded by History of the Former Han Dynasty is collated. First, lifestories of the three masters; second, findings of the development path of the threepoetry academic schools through understanding of the three things recorded inHistory of the Former Han Dynasty LuJia Recite poems, Emperor Hui of Hanabolishing the law about can’t keeping books, and Emperor Wen and Jing awarded theDr.identity to the three masters; third, deduction and summary of the process of thepoetry text foxes, the resource of the theory and the achievements of the three poetryacademic schools.The main purpose of Chapter Two is to arrange the basic situation of three poetryacademic schools during the development period from records in the Classic of poetry.First, based on the development background of the classics, the author explores theevolvement of Poetry studies after Emperor Wu, Zhao, Xuan, Yuan and Cheng, thensummarizes the classical course of the Classic of poetry. Second, the author sums upthe transmission spectrum, achievements, extensions and features of the three mastersof Poetry.In Chapter Three, orientation of the Classic of poetry made by Liu Xin and BanGu in The Yi Wen Record of the History of the Former Han Dynasty,is furtherexplored. First, the author finds the meaning transformation of Liu Jing and LiuYi, and figures out the correlation between the two concepts to refer to Classic ofPoetry and Book of History. There is also summary on the abuse of the twoconcepts.Analysis has also been made on Liu Yi’s being used by Ban Gu to refer to the core of Confucianism by drawing from "Qi Lue. Concept of Jing and Yi ofClassic of Poetry and Book of History etc has been adopted, which reflect Ban Gu’sorientation of Classic of poetry in the system of Liu Yi.Second, investigation hasbeen made on the sequencing of Liu Jing.It is found that as early as the Pre-QinPeriod,people had formed the understanding of the Confucius Educational ThoughtsPoetry ranks the first among Liu Jing. But the order was broken during the WarringStates and Qinmo early Han Dynasty. People of the early Han Dynasty tried to restorethe order, and new tendencies evolved. The new sort was formed by Liu Xin andwritten into Qi Lue. Ban Gu put it into The Di Li Record of the History of theFormer Han Dynasty, and it’s been disseminated since.In addition to the chronological factor, a major principle that Liu Xin followed isto map Book of Changes and Chun Qiu to sky and earth, People and Classic ofPoetry to Wu Xing, and remade four Classics by reversing the order of mutualcreation among the five elements in Xin Wu De Zhong Shi.However, Ban Gu’sprinciple is to exclude Chun Qiu from five classics which maps to cardinal virtues,and put it after Book of Changes, Book of History, Classic of Poetry,The book ofRites and The book of music based on Xin Wu De Zhong Shi.That makes the samesequence of Liu Jing with Liu Xin by following separate principles. Differences onorientation of Poetry in Liu Jing from the Pre-Qin Period to Han Dynasty can be seenfrom the sequencing of Liu Jing.In Chapter Four, studies have been made on how The Di Li Record of the Historyof the Former Han Dynasty absorb ideas, customs, culture and the commentary of thePre-Qin Period from Classic of Poetry. First, the author analyzes ranking of countiesin The Di Li Record of the History of the Former Han Dynasty and it starts from thecenter and goes in a clockwise direction. The thought originated from the pre-Qin era,and coincided with the concepts of Five Mountains and Nine Contients in TheClassic of Mountains and Yu Gong. But it is more likely that it was influenced by thesequencing of Guo Feng. Second, the author observes literary piece about customsabsorbed geographical regionalization and customs and commentary from Classic ofPoetry, and draws an conclusion that Ban Gu was inclined to draw materials from thethoughts, methodologies, achievements, and influence of Classic of Poetry.Chapter Five is to investigate Collection of poetry, Estabilishment of MusicBureau by Emperor Wu and The collection of poetry by Music Bureau in Historyof the Former Han Dynasty. Based on the investigation and analysis of thebackground, source of the thoughts, and history, the author can figure out whatpositions Liu Xin and Ban Gu took and how they processed the materials andthoughts. It is found that the two masters had good understanding of that the nature ofClassic of Poetry is Poetry and that Poetry could tell express emotions andobserve emotions.
Keywords/Search Tags:History of the Former Han Dynasty, Classic of Poetry, The Yi WenRecord of the History of the Former Han Dynasty, The Di Li Record of the History ofthe Former Han Dynasty
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