曾运乾经学研究三书述评

A Review on Zeng Yun-qian's Three Textbooks of Confucian Classics Studies

曾运乾不仅以精通声韵名家,经学研究也有骄人成绩。在《尚书正读》、《毛诗说》、《春秋三传通论》等著述中,他综合运用音韵、训诂、语法、修辞等知识,在解说经义、训释字词、点断句读、剖析文理、抉发经书意蕴、裁决经学争讼等方面屡有新获,能兼汉、宋之长,不拘今、古家法。曾运乾由小学入手治经,一改湖南经师不通小学的旧观,在湘学史上尤其具有标志性的意义。

As one of the most famous scholars in modern Hunan,Zeng Yun-qian was proficient in ancient Chinese phonology as well as Confucian classics studies.In Zeng’s three textbooks of Confucian classics studies,namely Shangshu Zhengdu,Maoshi Shuo and Chunqiu Sanzhuan Tonglun,he applied phonological,exegetical,grammatical and rhetorical knowledges and skills in a flexible way,so that he made great progress in explanation and interpretation to Confucian classics.Zeng Yun-qian,regarded as a symbolic figure in the history of Hunan learning,his enormous success in Confucian classics studies pro-ceeded from Chinese phonology and philology,which changed in large part the situation that Hunanese scholars had been bad at phonology and philology.