Dan Zhu's Controversial Interpretations of the <i>Spring and Autumn Annals</i> and the Paradigm Shift of Confucian Hermeneutics in the Middle Tang Dynasty

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LI Liqin. Dan Zhu's Controversial Interpretations of the Spring and Autumn Annals and the Paradigm Shift of Confucian Hermeneutics in the Middle Tang Dynasty[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2020, 3(1): 115-135.

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LI Liqin. Dan Zhu's Controversial Interpretations of the Spring and Autumn Annals and the Paradigm Shift of Confucian Hermeneutics in the Middle Tang Dynasty[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2020, 3(1): 115-135.

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Dan Zhu's Controversial Interpretations of the Spring and Autumn Annals and the Paradigm Shift of Confucian Hermeneutics in the Middle Tang Dynasty

LI Liqin

Renmin University of China

Received Date: 2019-10-28
Rev Recd Date: 2019-12-24
Publish Date: 2021-03-09

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As a new paradigm of Confucian hermeneutics, the eighth-century "New School" of studies of the Spring and Autumn Annals, represented by Dan Zhu, Zhao Kuang, and Lu Chun, differed from previous Confucian hermeneutics in terms of interpretation style, interpretation principles, and understanding of classical form. In this sense, the New School's interpretations of the Spring and Autumn Annals marked a turning point for Confucian hermeneutics in the Middle Tang Dynasty. However, understandings of the Spring and Autumn Annals that are based on Confucian principles face the criticism of "explaining classics according to one's own understanding." Here, throughout the field of Confucian hermeneutics, the New School's exegesis of the Spring and Autumn Annals raises the question of the extent to which the interpreter expounds Confucius's ideas in writing from the special historical perspective of his own time and presupposes the problems of Confucius's intention. However, it is still influenced by the reception history of the traditional understanding of the Spring and Autumn Annals. The determination of the inevitability of the textual truth and normative authority of the Spring and Autumn Annals, as well as the limitation of interpretation based on its traditional context, may limit the arbitrariness of the New School's interpretation rather than explaining the Spring and Autumn Annals according to one's own understanding.

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