The transformation of the study on The Book of Songs in Tang and Song dynasties from the citation of Poetry:Taking the two Books of Tang and History of Song as examples
As an important link in the transformation history of Confucianism in Tang and Song dynasties,the intrinsic logic and real features of the transformation of the study on Poetry in Tang and Song dynasties can be highlighted by the official citation of Poetry.At the textual level,the citation of Poetry by the two Books of Tang and History of Song have broken and launched theoretic attacks,to varying degrees,at the norms of"citing Poetry as evidence"since the Han Dynasty.At the semantic level,the two Books of Tang combined the citation of Poetry with the new study on Spring and Autumn,reflecting the return of the study on Poetry in the Tang Dynasty from its extrinsic study of emphasizing rites and enjoying didactics to the intrinsic study on exploring into the essentials of Confucianism.Based on this,people in the Song Dynasty further extracted"the intention of the sages"as the original source of unifying all classics,and combined the method of studying Poetry in the Spring and Autumn and the Mencius study on Poetry,revealing the trajectory of the inheritance and establishment of the scholars'study on Poetry in the Song Dynasty.
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