On the Development of Zuo Zhuan'Notes and Its Invention by Liu Shipei
The early books in our country have no notes on the use of a book,which need readers to sum up the meaning behind the text,sometimes even go beyond the text itself and deduce the meaning of the author."Example"in the Chunqiu(Spring and Autumn)has become the most significant and important content of the interpretation of Confucian classics.Du Yu made it clear that both Chunqiu and Zuo Zhuan were records of the history,denying the so-called notes of time,moon and day,criticizing a word of praise and depreciating,believing that Zuo Zhuan has no other example except solar eclipse and Dafu's(a senior official)death,and put forward the new and old notes theory.Before Liu Shipei,the criticism of Du's Notes was mainly in terms of exegesis,chapters,sentences and compilation of Chinese,while there were few results in the meanings,and the study of"examples"of Zuo Zhuan urgently needed to be broken through.Liu Shipei denied Du Yu's notes thoery,divided Zuo Zhuan from Gongyang and Guliang,systematically summarized the notes system of Zuo Zhuan.In explaining the relationship between Zuo Zhuan and Chunqiu,Liu Shipei embodied the idea of flexibility,but the idea of Confucian classics limited his further development in the study of ancient history.
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