A Study On Xing Guan Qun Yuan Within A Wide Field From Man To Heaven

Xing Guan Qun Yuan was one of the core of Confucius's poetic thoughts. There had been many different explanations about it since it was suggested by Confucius.The interpretations of zhengxuan and konganguo of Han dynasty had laid the foundation to its bias understanding towards political and ironical function to the posterity.Although zhuxi, a great thinker andwriter lived in SouthSong dynasty,starting from the version of the Classic of Poetry,revealed the deeper meaning of Xing Guan Qun Yuan,and converted it from politics to personality in some degrees,he could not break off its original relations with politics completely.Wangfuzhi,another thinker and writer lived in the end of Ming and the beginning of Qing dynasty,had realized the substance of its integral part when Xing Guan Qun Yuan was viewed as a whole and each concept had its particular stress when was separated,and pointed out its gigantic containing and covering,thus opened up new horizons for the posterities.In recent twenty years, Xing Guan Qun Yuan studies was made from different angles such as aesthetics and chaos etc,especially the unearthed Confucian Poetics Recorded on the Shangbo Bamboo Slips,Human Nature Originated from Divine Call on the Chu Bamboo Slips,Yizhuan Copied on Silk,which brought the study of Confucius's poetic thoughts to the remote ideological background of "Man is an integral part of nature" This article chose Xing Guan Qun Yuan as the main subject and drew inspirations from theme research which was mentioned above,intended to make penetrating analysis on Confucius's "Man is an integral part of nature "sense from four aspect——Confucius's identity,Confucius's thoughts about man and heaven, Confucius's ideas about people's feelings and their inherent characters, Confucius's turning to the "tao " thinking system.Within such a wide setting from man to heaven,the article strived to make some new interpretations about Xing Guan Qun Yuan.