On Huang Zhongyan’s Learning About The Spring And Autumn Annals

Huang Zhongyan is an ordinary Confucian scholar in the late southern SongDynasty.He urgently hopes to make contributions to the society although he ishumble.His book, Learning about the Spring and Autumn Annals,reflects this idea.He thinks the writing intention of the Spring and Autumn annals is enlightenment andalert,not moral preaching,which is the core guide thought among his learning theSpring and Autumn annals. So he attaches great importance to the king, secretary,livelihood of the people and foreign affairs and he hopes to warn the late generationsby means of analysis on the Spring and Autumn annals. Huang Zhongyan’s learningabout the Spring and Autumn annals differs from others’ideas.Huang’s methods of the learning about the Spring and Autumn annals isunique.He trys to explicate the enlightenment and alert,to integrate the wholehistory,to correct other learnings about the Spring and Autumn annals, which isHuang’ most striking characteristics.So Huang Zhongyan’Learning about the Springand Autumn Annals is valued by the people who compile the imperial collection offour.