Textual Researeh And Chronicle Of The Confucian Classics In Early Qing Dynasty

The essential character of academic research in the Qing Dynasty was to collate and summarize Chinese academic achievements for thousands of years. The Confucian classics, as the core of traditional culture, were also gained huge success, which affected the politics, education, culture and other aspects of Qing Dynasty and modern society. Therefore, the study of Confucian classics in the Qing Dynasty has been an academic research hotspot for long time. This paper, which belongs to the research category of the academic history, focus on the textual research of the written year of Confucian scholars' works during the periods of Emperor Shunzhi and Kangxi. In this article, these works would be arranged by years, in order to grasp the development and change about Confucian classics in early Qing Dynasty systematically and make preparation for further research.This article is divided into four sections:Section one is the preface that mainly expounds the reason and significance of the choice of topic, analyses the academic achievements, points out the research methods and innovative points of this paper;Section two is the convention that defines description, format and arrangement sequence of this paper;Section three is the main text which is the core part of this article. According to the convention, historical chronology is longitude and works about Confucian classics are latitude in this text. It mainly arranges the written year of Confucian scholars'works and makes brief introductions of the Confucian scholars'birth and death year, given name, place of origin, etc. It contains textual research about some parts of the contents to identify and correct the inaccuracies and errors in the literatures.Section four is the epilogue which is a supplement to the main text from two aspects, one is the study on the regional distribution of Confucian scholars in early Qing Dynasty and the other is the classification statistics on Confucian classics works. In order to grasp a macroscopic impression, the characteristics of Confucian classics in the early Qing Dynasty are summarized at the last.