今文公羊学说的独具风格和历史命运

The Peculiar Style and Historical Destiny of the Modern Script School of Gongyang Theory

专重发挥“微言大义”的今文公羊学说，在儒家经典中独树一帜。它在中国封建社会的前期和后期两度大盛，中间却澌灭殆尽达千余年，其历史命运似乎离奇。究其原因，乃在于公羊学本身具有政治性、变易性、解释性诸特点，而西汉和晚清社会正处于转折时期，因此被有远见的思想家大力发挥，演出政治上的活剧，掀起学术上的波澜。在晚清，公羊朴素进化观成为接受西方近代进化论的内在基础，它推进了１９世纪中国学术实现向近代学术的飞跃——揭示这一事实，对于我们认识传统文化中的优秀部分具有应变力，近代文化是经由对传统文化的扬弃而产生。

he modern script school of Gongyang theory, which pays special attention to “sublime words with profound meaning”, is quite peculiar in Confucian classics. It seems to have a quite unusual historical destiny, flourishing twice in the early and late periods of China's feudal society and becoming extinct for more than 1,000 years in between. This is due to the political, changeable and hermeneutic nature of the theory. The west Han and late Qing societies are both in a transitional period, and this gives far sighted thinkers a chance to develop this theory to the full, thus putting on political dramas and setting off academic waves. In the late Qing period, the native idea of evolution in Gongyang theory becomes an intrinsic basis for accepting the modern western theory of evolution, contributing to the development of 19th century Chinese scholarship to modern scholarship.