Research Of Lin Xiyi’s Oral Interpretation Of Zhuangzi In Yanzhai

This paper uses the methods of interpreting the thoughts of Zhuangzi which were raised by Lin Xiyi as a clue to research Lin’s annotation about Zhuangzi. According to the methods, this paper makes use of the vision of Confucianism, Buddhism and literature in turn to research the Zhuangzi interpretation achievements of Lin Xiyi, which will lead to a comprehensive understanding of Lin Xiyi’s interpreting work and to research Lin Xiyi’s achievements on integrating different philosophy thoughts such as Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism at the same time. In the study of Lin Xiyi’s literature review of Zhuangzi, we also focus on the aspects related to the integration of these three religions and his related theory.This paper is divided into five chapters:The first chapter comprehensively introduces Lin Xiyi’s life, learning and social circle, including Lin Xiyi’s year of death, Aixuan school’s characteristics and Lin Xiyi’s interaction with monks. All of these have seldom been mentioned by scholars or come to clear conclusions. It also introduces some basic information about the book Oral Interpretation of Zhuangzi in Yanzhai, including its writing time, writing reasons as well as the basic information about the engraved printing and circulation, paving way for researching the book.The second chapter researches on Lin Xiyi’s contribution to the integration between Confucian and Zhuangzi through the study of his interpretation in a way that has strong Confucianism color. This paper uses the analysis of the original materials as a foundation and impact analysis and the analysis of annotation mentality as an auxiliary way to lead readers to get a deep understanding of Lin Xiyi’s interpretation which used Neo-Confucianism as a principle to read Zhuangzi. While he used the Neo-Confucianism to explain Zhuangzi, he made use of the theory " Wu Chi and Tai Chi "which put forward by Zhou Dunyi, a famous idealist in North Song dynasty,to explain Zhuangzhou’s cosmology, the theory of Confucius and Hui’s Cheerfulness to explain the free and unfettered cheerfulness of Zhuangzi, the theory of heavenly principles to explain Zhuangzi’s theory of "Tao" and the concept of "no desire" to explain Zhuangzi’s thought of "deal with the world with no heart". After doing a series of work, he narrowed the distance between the thought of Zhuangzi and Confucianism and meanwhile put the thought of Neo-Confucianism into Zhuangzi. Lin Xiyi also made an inter-communication of these two thoughts through word explanation, the lower level to inter-communicate on philosophical thought, he even created the image of Zhuangzi who actually respected Confucius. All these facts reveal that Lin Xiyi wanted to draw Zhuangzi into the Confucian system.The third chapter examines Lin Xiyi’s interpretation methods of the Buddhism, Taoism and Literature. In the interpretation about Buddhism, Lin introduced Zen into Zhuangzi as the main approach. So in the first section we will research on Lin’s vision on integrating Zen and Zhuangzi by comparing these two thoughts in terms, stories, philosophical connotations and the view of life and death. In the second section, we will research on Lin Xiyi’s view of Taoism, which was seldom noticed. And we find out that Lin Xiyi had a basic understanding of the knowledge of Taoist theory for inner elixir, but he just classified it into the study of preserving one’s health, which was thought to belong to human desire, the opposite side of the heavenly principles,so that he paid less attention to this aspect. In section three, we briefly introduce Lin xiyi’s critics on Zhuangzi in literature, research his idealist-color in the practice of literature crisis and explore how he attached equal importance to both of philosophy connotation and language style of works in his comments.The forth chapter focuses on Lin Xiyi’s representative opinions. In this chapter we research on the view that Zhuangzi and Mengzi were struggling for the people’s salvation at the same time through the study in-depth reading of the text, including its formation and connotation. We also research on the formation and connotation of the view that Tibetan tripitaka came from Zhuangzi through the combination of historical investigation and discuss its rationality, and we will research on the view that Zhuangzi is better than Lieh Tzu by means of historical investigation and comparative reading of the two texts, try to find out the specific meaning and Lin Xiyi’s evaluation standards.The fifth chapter is the conclusion, in this part we summarize the main ideas of the paper and try to combine Lin Xiyi’s achievements on the history of Zhuangzi research to comment Oral Interpretation of Zhuangzi in Yanzhai...