孟子与《春秋》的经学建构问题探论

Mencius and the Construction of the Study of Confucian Classics on Spring and Autumn Annals

孟子是对《春秋》进行经学建构的关键人物,时间为孟子晚年的齐宣王时代。孟子在稷下的文化刺激及禅让政治破产的情形下,赋予了《春秋》较为完整的经学品质。从此,《春秋》由"事"而"义",作为孔子传道之书,成为经学专名,此后挖掘其内在的"笔法"及微言大义,成为主流诠释方法。

Mencius was the key figure who constructed the study of Confucian classics on Spring and Autumn Annals in his later years when King Xuan of the Qi State was in power. Under the circumstances of the cultural stimulation in Jixia and of the political bankruptcy as the result of the King’s abdicating and handing over his crown to another person, Mencius endowed Spring and Autumn Annals with a relatively complete quality of the study of Confucian classics. Since then, Spring and Autumn Annals, which was interpreted as “righteousness” instead of “historical facts”, as a book for Confucius to propagate his doctrines, has become a special name of the study of Confucian classics and to explore its hidden writing technique and the sublime words with deep meaning has become the main interpretation method.