The Study Of Five Rules Of Legacy

Chen Hongmou, who is a famous Confucian officer, had procured significant achievements for the sociology in Yongzheng and Qianlong period. Furthermore, his conduct and academic have been high valu of from the multitude. Chen Hongmou also have been keen on editing and publicatting a lot of educational books through all his political life.Notably,Five Rules of Legacy, the book which have been spreaded most widely from all his publicatting books, profounding implications in the late Qing Dynasty and the Repbulic of China.Chen Hongmou extracted more than eighty Confucian scholars’ enlightenmengt articles,and collected Neo-Confucianism educational thoughts to this book, which named for practice. Five Rules of Legacy should be taken enough attention in the academic circles, however, it had been not. The academic paper aim for researching this book of editing, content, vertion, significance and spreading.The first part has been introduced the significance and researched achievements about this book and it’s editor for the related project.The second part has been introduced the editor’s life, especially his enlightenment thoughts as well as teaching practice.The third part has been researched to editing activity, and summarized standard and methods of editing, listing every scholars’ text with table behind.The fourth part has been researched every published book and version systems of Five Rules of Legacy. In this part, basing collected a lot of published information,it has listed published books with tables and divided for dynasty. Then, it has summarized version systems from published books. In the end, this part has summed up characteristic of each system and introduced typical books.The fifth part has been discussed it’s literature value about education, political and literature. At the same time, this part has researched spreading history,dividing different stages for four parts.In the end, this paper has concluded enlightenment value of Five Rules of Legacy, which transcends time and space.