"Textual interpretation"and"realpolitik":History and construction in Preface to Spring and Autumn Annals by Du Yu and Fan Ning
Du Yu,in his Preface to Spring and Autumn Annals,explained that"Spring and Autumn Annals begins with Yin"as the time link between King Ping of Zhou and Yin Gong of Lu,while Fan Ning,in his Preface to Gu Liang Zhuan,endorsed Du's explanation.But there still exist huge differences between them.Du Yu,while emphasizing the time link,regarded Lu Yin Gong as a good king of the kingdom,compared him to great Zhou Gong,and expected him to start the revival of Eastern Zhou.However,in the context of Gu Liang,Fan Ning could not regard Lu Yin Gong as a good king,and could only lay expectation on Confucius'"future law".In other terms,under Du Yu's and Fan Ning's pens,Zhou Gong and Confucius were put in different important positions.Along with this,the subjectivity of"sage production"also changed,thus forming two different expectations of"re-creation in rejuvenation"and"waiting for the future".The main reasons behind it lie in the different realpolitik projected by Du Yu's text and Fan Ning's text with the former living in the early period of the Western Jin Dynasty,a period of"starting to revive revival",while the latter Fan Ning living at the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty,a period of with collapsed rites and corrupted morale.The different backgrounds of the times led to different understandings and interpretations of Spring and Autumn Annals and of sages.But their different readings of Spring and Autumn Annals lie not only in"knowing the human and commenting on the world",but more in"knowing the thing and utilizing the world",in the hope that Spring and Autumn Annals,as a literary canon,can also walk into and exert impact on the real world so as to make the existing modern world move towards the"golden age"proclaimed by Spring and Autumn Annals.
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