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Libraly Journal ›› 2023, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (381): 36-46.

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Zhen Dexiu’s Reading Thoughts and Its Enlightenment toContemporary Classics Reading

Zhu Yuanliang (Changshu Institute of Technology Library)   

  • Online:2023-01-15 Published:2023-02-09
  • About author:Zhu Yuanliang (Changshu Institute of Technology Library)

Abstract:

Zhen Dexiu was a famous neo confucianist in the late Southern Song Dynasty, who playedan important role in the inheritance and revival of Neo Confucianism. In the long process of reading,writing and teaching disciples, Zhen Dexiu adhered to Neo Confucianism and formed his own readingthoughts. Through the study of Zhen Dexiu’s works such as Xishan Du Shu Ji, Wen Zhang Zheng Zongand Daxue Yanyi, the author noticed that Zhen inherited the reading thoughts of Zhu Xi and the fourscholars of the Northern Song Dynasty (Zhou Dunyi, Zhang Zai, Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi), and innovateda solid reading system in terms of reading order, reading methods and reading content. This readingsystem has a good reference significance for solving many difficulties of classics reading at present.