李兆洛与嘉道经世学风

Li Zhaoluo and the Learning Style of Mastering Classics and Applying it in Practice in Late Qing Dynasty

嘉道时期常州学派著名学者李兆洛不仅在文学上有很深的造诣和广泛的影响,更主要的是他积极倡导经世致用,并且身体力行,在舆地方面卓有建树,在漕、盐、河等政务方面多有建言;他不仅致力于消除学术界长期以来无谓的“汉宋之争”,而且还积极刊刻庄存与等清代今文经学家的著作,传播学术文化;其学术交往对于龚自珍、魏源等晚清经世派思想家的成长产生了积极影响,成为嘉道时期学术风气转向与经世学术形成之重要风向标。

As an eminent scholar of Changzhou school in the Jia Dao period, Li Zhaoluo was not merely a man of high attainments and extensive influence in literary history. What is more to the point, he took an active part in advocating the thought of mastering classics and applying it in practice, and made many achievements in geography, salt administration, river administration and grain transport by water. He not only committed himself to the removal of differences between Han classics and Song classics,but also got down to editor and published the works of specialists in Jinwen classics in the Qing Dynasty for diffusing academic culture. His academic activities and thought operated on the minds of these thinkers mastering classics and making it applied such as Gong Zizhen, Wei Yuan in late Qing Dynasty, thus becoming the symbol of the new academic climate formation in the Jia Dao period.