Abstract:

Based on his idea of “Tong Jing”, namely regarded Jing as the fundamental foundation for governing a country and society, Zhang Zhidong changed the classification principle of ancient bibliographies of “gathering and transmitting one classical book as one category” and the description standard “in chronological order” to line up the list of Jing documents. Firstly, Shu Mu Da Wen distinguished between “Jing” and “Jing Shuo”, establishing that “Zheng Jing” have axiomatic premise and are also the object and basis of all “Jing Shuo”; Secondly, it distinguishes the “Jing Shuo” into “Gu Zhu” and “Jing Shu” of subsequent dynasty, the former is a model of “Jing Shuo”, so it is also called “Zheng Zhu”, and has become the benchmark for the latter. As a result, the academic evolution from “Zheng Jing” to “Zheng Zhu” and then to the “Jing Shuo” of the dynasties demonstrate the characteristics of the process from source to stream. Conversely, tracing the origin of the “Jing Shuo” to the “Zheng Zhu” and then to the “Zheng Jing” has become the only way to “Tong Jing” and highlighted the value of the Confucian classics. At least as far as the “Jing” is concerned, the academic appeal of “Tong Jing” is more essential than the logic of bibliography itself, which restricts the bibliography and classification of the Shu Mu Da Wen.