Researches On Li Tengfang’s Shuo Zhuang

Zhuang zi show us the unique charm of literature and the profound meaning of philosophy with its "fantastic and absurd statements,absurd opinions and rambling words".Since Wei and Jin dynasty,the annotations of Zhuang Zi is countless. With the exchanges and integration between the three mainstream thoughs,the works which comment on zhuang Zi emerged in endlessly. In the late Ming dynasty,it appeared a small climax around the study of the works.Li Tengfang’s "Shuo Zhuang" was gestated in such background of the times.As a renowned scholar in the late Ming dynasty, Li Tengfang not only pay attention to politics of current events,but also work hard in studying and research, He knew very well on classics,history and Buddhism-Taoism.In "Shou Zhuang",Li Tengfang often quoted the thoughts of Confucianism and Buddhism to interpreted Zhuang Zi in order to seek the similarities and differences between them.At the same time, when interpreted some specific words of Zhuang Zi, Li Tengfang often used the method by seek the comparisons and correspondences between the contexts to annotated the meaning of the words,which achieved the purpose of use Zhuang Zi to annotated Zhuang Zi. This makes "Shuo Zhuang" was substantial and embracive,the contents of it embraced the Confucianism,Buddha and so on. In this way,the words was truly achieve the purpose of "extensive and order". In addition, as an ancient astronomer, Li Tengfang analysis Zhuang Zi by the way of literature and lingnistics.On the one hand, he did deep analysis on the text of Zhuang Zi, discussing the overall planning, phrasing and context of the writings one by one; On the other hand, he adopted the " explain Zhuang Zi by context " method in the process of interpreted the philosophical connotations, namely through reviewing the writings’s context to explored subtle philosophy that implied in the words, so as to realized the good combination of literature and argumentation. At the same time,to enhance the article convincing and interesting,"Shuo Zhuang" quoted many literature and history stories and theories to make arguments, that made it formed a " clear and fluent" style of art. Although there was no one made a special discussion and research to "Shuo Zhuang", but we can’t ignore the important values of the works. This works not only promoted the development of the "Explaining Zhuang Zi by Zhuang Zi" process, but also enrich the connotation of "Analysis Zhuang Zi by the way of literature and lingnistics ". Besides, many points of "Shuo Zhuang" were cited in the later generations works. It is enough to show that "Shuo Zhuang" can provided important reference value and reference significance for the successors in the related research.