"luai Gong Asked Confucius," The Integrated Study Of Literature,

Reading the words of Confucius in the early books, many materials of" LuAi Gong asked Confucius" will left people an outstanding impression. Where are the materials come from? How is the value of the materials to Confucius Research? It is related to a series of major issues which are about Confucius, Confucianism and the thought and culture of Chinese; meanwhile, It is aslo related to understand of a range of issues which are ahout the academic history of the Chinese, and it is Worth conducting an intensive thorough and meticulous investigation.After Confucius traveling around the world and arriving at Lu, Duke Ai of Lu was the King of the state of Lu. At this time, Confucius waw old, LuAi Gong greatly respected for Confucius and often exchanged with Confucius, which left many valuable historical records. It should be of particular value in the aspect of researching of Confucianism that these records of Confucian's later thought of Confucianism. However, under the special academic background in China, people have a significantly different views on these materials. So if we make clear the specific sources,the formation and the value of these materials, which wound have an important significance for the Confucianism and the whole of Chinese thought and culture.For the study of Confucian thought, the views of ancient and modern scholars often are limited to " The Analects of Confucius" and a few other materials, which makes people easily to use "model of politics" to order other materials, resulting in biased understanding of Confucius and his thought. With in-depth academic research and the advent of underground literature, many of the problems have been further recognized, an important point is that "The Sayings of Confucius", people originally thought it was "typical of the fake-book", now it seems far from the true! From the dialogues between Confucius and LuAi Gong (they mainly are the materials "LuAi Gong asked Confucius"), you can gain a special meaning which would make Confucian image, as a political thinker, more full and more vivid.The materials of "LuAi Gong asked Confucius" are recorded in the form of dialogues, which are talks between Duke Ai and Confucius. They are focused on the political thought of Confucius. And these materials interdepend with the newly unearthed documents, which is uncommon new perspective, new ideas and new development for the study of Confucius. For various reasons, people are skeptical of these materials, especially in its reliability, so it is necessary to carefully review all aspects of them.First of all, we should make full use of the literature collation, double the evidence and other methods, and we should study the sixty-nine literature citations from nearly twenty Department of Classics, "The Sayings of Confucius","Shuo Yuan", "Xun Zi","The Book of Rites", "Da Dai Li Ji" and so on. Meanwhile, the unearthed documents, in particular, Shanghai bamboo books,Guodian bamboo books and other early literature is worthy to be noted, and this study provides a lot of good thinking for my thesis. For these documents, there are many main aspects of our investigation:the formative process of a book, the thought of ducuments, the relationship with the unearthed documents, the origin of the ducumengts and the detailed ducument collation, e.g. As for the same ideological and material involved in a variety of literature. We conducted the relevant version,text,school,the formative process of a book and so on, in order to observe the quality of the classics, study the reasons of double texts and explore the reliability of these materials.On the basis of the literature, we study these materials from the perspective of social history. By reproducing the dialogue scene, we study the state of Lu at that time, at the same time, we also investigate the matural form of Confucian political thinking. And Confucian political thought is not isolated, but is interrelated with Heaven, disposition theory, spirits worship, the thought of military and punishment, the people, benevolence and so on, which is an interlocked and organic unity. In one word, it takes the people as the crunode of Confucian thought, emphasizing the monarch's moral training, carrying out the propriety and music, attaching importance to the humane and morality, and recoverying the civilization. All of these make the Confucian thought become riper and more integrated.By studying the materials of "Luai Gong asked Confucius" in integrated and individual ways, we had a whole sense for the basic features of the Confucian materials. These materials are clearly not out of people imagine, there is some basis or locus to be seeked. the materials of "LuAi Gong asked Confucius" is very important, during the pre-Qin periods, people have cherished these materials, they cited these materials and depended on influence of Confucius, resulting in a large number of repeat. These materials are indeed derived from the records of Confucian disciples, contemporaries or the historian of the time. Although with the signs of modifications of some future generations and not without problems, on the basis of careful analysis, they can be used for research and understanding of Confucianism, meanwhile, they are important meterials which recorded Confucian words and deeds and reflected the current social situation, so we can not turn a blind eye for them!...