中国古代经典诠释之最初体式

The Initial Forms of Ancient Chinese Classics Interpretation

以诠释表思想,以诠释成经典,是中国学术思想的两大形式特征。要研究中国古代学术思想,就有必要研究中国古代经典诠释。中国古代经典诠释,形成了许多诠释体式。具体研究这些诠释体式,是研究中国古代经典诠释的基本做法。"传"是中国古代经典诠释之最初体式。"传"体开创于《春秋左氏传》,完善于《春秋公羊传》和《春秋谷梁传》,后衍生出"内传""外传""大传""小传""别传"等形态。"传"体在创立和衍生的过程中,逐渐形成了中国古代经典诠释的两大诠释思想传统,即"我注六经"与"六经注我"。

Expressing ideas by interpretation and understanding classics by interpretation are the two formal features of Chinese academic thought. To study the ancient Chinese academic thought, it is necessary to study the interpretation of ancient Chinese classics, which has many interpreting forms. To study these interpreting forms is the basic way to study the interpretation of ancient Chinese classics. Biograhy is the initial form of interpreting ancient Chinese classics. It was established with The Biography of Spring and Autumn by Zuo Qiuming, perfected with The Biography of Spring and Autumn by Gong Yanggao and The Biography of Spring and Autumn by Gu Liangchi and developed into forms of authorized biography, unauthorized biography, biography of interpreting classics, biographical sketch and supplimentary biography. In the course of its establishment and development, biography developed into two traditions of interpreting the thoughts of ancient Chinese classics, that is, ＂The readers try to understand the origional meaning of the Six Classics＂ and ＂The readers express their own ideas by reading the Six Classics＂.