中国传统文化中的解释学

中国传统文化源远流长 ,历代思想家在解释文化经典时 ,既重视前人的解释 ,又根据时代要求 ,发挥义理 ,实现了继承和创新。解释学的意义就是说明、解释、理解和创新。从先秦儒家解释学的创新精神和道家解释学的直觉辩证法及自由精神境界 ,到两汉今文经学的微言大义与古文经学的求实精神 ,再经魏晋南北朝发展到唐代今古文合流的义疏之学、宋代的儒道佛三教合一的义理之理 ,都体现着中国传统文化中解释学的继承和创新精神。正是这种精神 ,使中国传统文化在发展中保持着一脉相承的连续性

Hermeneutics in the Traditional Culture of China

The term hermeneutics in this paper refers to the study of general principles of interpretation and explanation of Chinese traditional culture. The traditional culture of China is of long standing and well established, and continuously evolved in proper order. The reason is that the thinkers through the ages, whenever they make comments on the cultural classics, not only attach importance to the annotations of the predecessors, but also elaborate the old argumentations to meet the needs of new age, that is to say, succession and innovation are both valued. The functions of hermeneutics are to account, to explain, to comprehend and to innovate. The hermeneutics before the Qin Dynasty is characteristic of Confucians' creativeness and Taoists' intuitionistic dialectics and freedom of spirit. During the Han Dynasty, the hermeneutics of New Text Shangshu (the book of history) laid stress on "sublime words with deep meaning", and Old Text Shangshu on realistic approach. After a long evolution during the Wei, the Jin, and the South and North Dynasties, hermeneutics in Tang Dynasty came the learning of commentary into being, the Hans approaches combined, and in the song Dynasty the learning of argumentation for reason and good sense, the Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism combined. Here now, we can find that there is in the study of the general principles of Chinese traditional culture the spirit continuity and innovationality.