《易传》的成书年代与作者新说

New Interpretations about the Completion Time and Authors of Yizhuan

《易传》除《杂卦》而外,均成书于孟子、荀子之后,司马迁之前,其成书的先后顺序应该是:《系辞》、《文言》、《彖传》、《象传》、《序卦》、《说卦》、《杂卦》。作者除《说卦》为汉初方士儒,《杂卦》为汉武帝以后的汉儒所作外,其他基本上是战国末至秦、汉初的子夏后学所作。《易传》的出现体现了百家争鸣以来,儒家"以神道设教"构建儒家化形上学的努力。

According to the chronological order of completion,Yizhuan（Commentary on Classic of Changes） consists of such chapters as Xici,Wenyan,Tuanzhuan,Xiangzhuan,Xugua,Shuogua,and Zagua,all of which,except Zagua,were written during the period from Mencius and Xunzi to Siman Qian.Among them,the authors of Shuogua and Zagua were respectively the intellectual in early Han Dynasty and the scholar after Emperor Wudi of the Han,and the rest were written by the Zixia school of Confucius disciples.The emergence of Yizhuan actually shows the great efforts of the Confucians at establishing the metaphysical system of Confucianism by ＂using superstition to instruct people＂ since the Contention of a Hundred Schools of Thought.