"customs Through Righteousness" Philosophy To Explore The Academic Value

Feng Su Tong Yi is the earliest document noting custom,by YingShao,a scholar in East Han Dynasty. It is one of the unofficial historyrepresentative works and has important influence on the offsprings. Itscontent are about history, custom,names, offering sacrifices to gods orancestors, geography and music. It is a valuable document for us toresearch Han Dynasty and it is popular in history study and quoted widely.The essay has three parts：The first part is mainly about all of YingShao’s life and hisachievement on schorlarship. He is born in a family which his ancestorsare officials, so he is influenced by Confucianism deeply and he is fondof traditional culture. In the late East Han Dynasty, the turbulentsociety has bad effect on traditional culture, YingShao devotes himselfon conserving and sorting out traditional documents and systems in aeasy-understanding way. He hopes to keep Confucian customs and the feudalsystems to make the traditional culture spread widely.The second part is mainly about the edition and contents of Feng SuTong Yi. YingShao considers that there are two problems primary in currentsociety, one is the complicated dictions, which is not obeying on whatthe Confucianism aiming at. The other is that the people pay much moreattention on the spreading and effect of the Confucianism and ignore itseffect on daily life, which leads to many mistakes in their daily life.So the document written by YingShao is aiming at solving these problems.The third part is mainly about the value of Feng Su Tong Yi onliterature, history and philosophy. If you want to research the history,custom and musical instruments of Han Dynasty, the book is necessary toyou for you study. The later scholars who notes on Records of the Historian,the Book of Former Han, History of the Later Han Dynasty, quotes lots ofcontents from Feng Su Tong Yi. The rich and varied theme and the popularand brief way of narrate tell the literature value of the document. Onphilosophy aspect, its native materialism is very valuable.YingShao, the one who inherits the culture of Han Dynasty,with hisstrict and conscientious attitude, writes the document Feng Su Tong Yi.His primary achievement is conserving the literature, custom of HanDynasty, which make the literature regular and conservation. It is noexaggeration to say, Feng Su Tong Yi is the most important document inancient time, especially in feudal society. In addition, it has aimportant position on the research of the history,literature andgeography of Han Dynasty.