Confucius' Han Four "poem" Research

Confucius' Poetics is a book buried together with Chu's nobles before the countrymoved from the capital of Ying in which Confucian disciples recorded and explainedConfucius' theory about the Book of Songs. The discovery of this book providesanother theory form before the separation of study about the Book of Songs in Handynasty. The paper investigate the differentiation and contact of them in methods,theories and contents, etc, by researching some representative chapters of Lu Shi, OiShi, Han Shi, Mao Shi. Specially, We sufficiently make use of achievements obtainedby other authors about compiling Lu Shi, Qi Shi, and Han Shi, with achievement ofresearch in Mao Shi, compared with Confucius' Poetics. We make clear about thedevelopment and theory features of Four schools of the Book of Songs in HanDynasty. Laying emphasis on investigating the Songs of Qing Miao, Wen Wang, LuMing, Guan Ju, etc, we find that Confucius' Poetics inclines to comment on the Bookof Songs in terms of proprieties. By commenting on the Book of Songs, it emphasizesthat proprieties and classic music civilization plays important role on the reformationof human natures, mould of good moral qualities and nice control of social orders, etc.On the other hand, Four schools of the Book of Songs in Han dynasty inclined toemploy the Book of Songs, they pay attention to direct politics and correct mistakesby means of the Book of Songs, serving the imperial politics. For this, Four schools ofthe Book of Songs in Han dynasty have different characters, but all the roads lead toRoman. Compared relative theories in Confucius' Poetics with Shi Yanzhi, Si Shi, LiuYi problems in Major Preface to the Book of Songs, we show that they have similartheorem mould. Pondering over the relationship between Confucius' Poetics and theMajor Preface to the Book of Songs, complement the loss. of some links in the studiesabout the Book of Songs before Qin dynasty. The emphases on Guan Ju and GuoFeng in Four schools of the book of Songs, implies that the systems of study about thebook of Songs, moving around Guan Ju.