从传统诗经学到现代诗经学

From traditional to modern studies of The Book of Songs

《诗经》的中国文化元典地位的确立 ,以儒家诗教为本 ,中国传统诗经学经历了两千多年的发展 ,其主要表现形式是以疏释文本为基础的传、序、笺、疏之学 ,总括地可分为训诂、考证、义理三类内容 ,是中国整个封建社会政治经济的反映 ,是其科学文化发展的产物。在中国向半封建半殖民地转化过程中 ,到 2 0世纪初 ,传统诗经学也在求新、求变 ,酝酿内容、形式和方法论的重大变革。现代诗经学是历史发展的必然产物。

The Book of Songs, in the form of Confucian poetry, well established as one of the Chinese greatest classic, has been studied over 2,000 years in a traditional style, i.e., biography, preluding, annotation, and paraphrasing. The methodology can usually be featured as historical interpretation, textual research, and argumentation due to the limitations and the backward political economy, science, and cultural studies of the feudal society. Since the beginning of the 20th century that witnessed the Chinese transition towards semi feudal and semi colonial status, however, the traditional researches of The Book of Songs have also undergone the changes in methodology, and creativity, thus marking the historical tendency.