Yao Ji-heng, a scholar of Confucian classics in the early Qing Dynasty, was very courageous tochallenge the academic authority and practiced a rational criticism as other enlightening thinkers of his time.He was also ...Yao Ji-heng, a scholar of Confucian classics in the early Qing Dynasty, was very courageous tochallenge the academic authority and practiced a rational criticism as other enlightening thinkers of his time.He was also as meticulous and persistent as those scholars in Qianlong and Jiaqing periods, in the critical in-terpretation of ancient texts. His works, General Survey of ’The Book of Songs’, make a challenge to thebelief that the book was full of "eulogistic and satiric poems" in Preface to Poetry and doubts the view that thesongs were "indecent poems" in Commentaries on Poetry. Yao adheres to a set of principles of annotation inhis study on poetry, such as "return to the classics", "agreement with the context; and " priority of the poet’sintention". General Survey of ’The Book of Songs’ is considered as a masterpiece of the school of "Doubts onAncient History" in the Qing Dynasty.展开更多
文摘Yao Ji-heng, a scholar of Confucian classics in the early Qing Dynasty, was very courageous tochallenge the academic authority and practiced a rational criticism as other enlightening thinkers of his time.He was also as meticulous and persistent as those scholars in Qianlong and Jiaqing periods, in the critical in-terpretation of ancient texts. His works, General Survey of ’The Book of Songs’, make a challenge to thebelief that the book was full of "eulogistic and satiric poems" in Preface to Poetry and doubts the view that thesongs were "indecent poems" in Commentaries on Poetry. Yao adheres to a set of principles of annotation inhis study on poetry, such as "return to the classics", "agreement with the context; and " priority of the poet’sintention". General Survey of ’The Book of Songs’ is considered as a masterpiece of the school of "Doubts onAncient History" in the Qing Dynasty.
