Poetry. Ouyang Xiu "original Meaning" New Exploration

OuyangXiu is the leading figures in many fields,especially in the research fields of The Book of Songs. His treatise of ShiBenyi has gotten many remarkable achievements.First of all, the ShiBenyi contains innovative point of view in the study history of the Book of Songs, such as questioned the Maoshi Preface and scripture of the Book of Songs, tried to find the original meaning of the Book of Songs by the human feelings, criticized MaoGong's and ZhengXuan's academic points of the Book of Songs, and also defined the Book of Songs's writing times.These researches about the Book of Songs have epoch-making significance.Secondly, the documents thought of ShiBenyi is also extremely abundant. The spirit of distinguishing between true and false, the thought of collating, the method of exegetics and textual research are all worth studying by later generations.Besides that, the relationship between the OuyangXiu's Views of the Book of Songs and his literature creation can be found from the ShiBenyi. The value and significance of ShiBenyi should not be negative, not only considered from the aspects of the studies of the Book of Songs and the documents, but also from the aspect of literature.