Wei Yuan Ancient Book Micro Research

Shu Gu Wei is the representative work of Wei Yuan’s Confucian research, which focusedon expounding scholar’s viewpoint in Western Han Dynasty and objecting to scholar’sviewpoint in Eastern Han Dynasty. The writing of this book was a long time. It was not finalizeduntil Wei Yuan died. This book fully reflects not only Wei Yuan’s view that Confucian ofWestern Han Dynasty was better than Eastern Han Dynasty’s, but also the view of the new textschool in the late Qing Dynasty. He put forward many ingenious ideas, especially in the field ofastronomy and geography. Shu Gu Wei opened up a new field of research that the emphasis hadchanged to the Western Han dynasty. It is a creation in the academic history.Shu Gu Wei discussed many questions about Shang Shu and involved many fields ofPhilology. It had made certain achievements in Textual research, Identify counterfeit andCompiling. It research version, content, astronomy and geography about Shang shu.Discrimination and Collection reflects Wei Yuan‘s solid foundation of textual criticism. WeiYuan was affected and different from Qianjia School.The reason of the difference is that Wei Yuan’s academic style and the social environment.Wei Yuan learned both Hanxue and Songxue. The spirit of scholars at that time was changing.Shu Gu Wei reflected changes of the learning of Qing dynasty.Although there were some faults, for example, subjective, error. Shu Gu Wei was still animportant work for Shangshu studies. Shu Gu Wei is a typical representative of ClassicalPhilology.