The Study Of Shi Shuo Xin Yu Notes By Yu Jiaxi

Yu Jiaxi’s Shi Shuo Xin Yu Notes is a masterpiece of the modern study of Shi Shuo Xin Yu, which has far reaching influence on the study of Shi Shuo Xin Yu. It is rich in content, involving collating, compiling, exegesis, textual research, historical criticism, and many other aspects. It tries to explore the historical value of Shi Shuo Xin Yu by emphasizing the commentary from the historical perspective. This article studies this book mainly from the two aspects in order to show its uniqueness and academic value. These two aspects are textual research and historical criticism.The introduction of this paper elaborates the significance of the subject and the research status about the Shi Shuo Xin Yu Notes.The first chapter mainly discusses the background information of Shi Shuo Xin Yu Notes. In the Republic of China, Shi Shuo Xin Yu’s version of the discoveried and spread in Tang and Song Dynasty. This is a very important opportunity to the research of Shi Shuo Xin Yu. The research in this period presented the pattern that the tradition and innovation coexist. Shi Shuo Xin Yu Notes was born in this background. Yu Jiaxi was affected by Han and Song Dynasty style of study and Huxiang regional culture. His academic was able to attach equal importance to textual research and theory. He emphasized humanistic pragmatism. Those are his characteristics of academic. He was proficient in the Bibliology. It made him learn the academic method that search for the source and evolvement. It was the academic basis of the Shi Shuo Xin Yu Notes. There are two objective conditions, too. They are the superior research conditions in Beiping and large amounts of academic researches in modem times. It took 17 years for Yu Jiaxi to write the book fully detailed. This book was the representative work of his academic transformation.The second chapter investigates the achievements of Shi Shuo Xin Yu Notes from the two aspects, namely, the textual research method and the use of new materials. This book used new materials to collate and solve the controversial issue. It used new materials to textual research on historical facts in order to supplement and correct history. Compared with other similar works in the Republic, this book is good at researching historical events. It studied the changes of intellectuals, the political situation, the formation and development of social morality in Wei and Jin Dynasty. It uesed the method that search for the source and evolvement. The book investigated the source of Shi Shuo Xin Yu in order to determine its compiling property. Shi Shuo Xin Yu Notes expans the research space of Shi Shuo Xin Yu.The third chapter investigates the historical criticism of Shi Shuo Xin Yu Notes from the three aspects to survey its value and significance. They are evaluation principles, standards and era characteristics. The historical criticism of this book has two principles, they are textual research and reason, the former is the basis. The historical criticism’s standard is the Confucian ethic morals. The book was born in the time of national crisis. Yu Jiaxi put his patriotism fused to the historical criticism. He wanted to sum up historical experience to serve the present and advocate Confucianism. He also wanted to make right existing evils. This makes the book has the distinct characteristics of that times and rich emotional color.