Research Characteristics of Confucian Classics in Modern Literature

Modern literary school refers to an academic tradition established by scholars in Han Dynasty on the basis of Confucian classics. It has three basic characteristics in academic research: first, it is a Confucian school in Han Dynasty and an academic tradition established by studying Confucian classics. But strictly speaking, although the classics it studies are Confucian classics, the thoughts it expresses are the ideological trend of the Han Dynasty, which is a kind of Confucianism in the Han Dynasty that combines various theories of the pre-Qin period and shows the face of Confucianism. Secondly, due to the popularity of ancient books after the Qin Fire, the Confucian classics on which the current literary schools are based are all books written in official script, which were passed down from Confucian scholars to the Han Dynasty. This leaves room for the debate between the old and new views when discovering Confucian classics in the pre-Qin period. Thirdly, its theoretical character in the interpretation of Confucian classics is very creative and full of religious theology, which is based on the academic atmosphere between the Han Dynasty. For example, Dong Zhongshu's "The Spring and Autumn of the Ram" and Meng Xijing's "The Book of Changes" can best reflect the theoretical character of natural science and technology knowledge and religious theology superstition in the Han Dynasty.

In addition, due to the discovery of Confucian classics written in the languages of various countries in the pre-Qin period, after textual research by scholars, they are not only different from the existing classics of the Confucian classics school in terms of sentences and sentences, but also have different views on social customs, political systems and philosophical propositions at that time, and emphasize that they belong to the simple style of study in the pre-Qin period, so the so-called ancient prose school has emerged, which has become a new academic tradition to compete with the modern literature school, that is, the modern ancient prose in the Confucian classics school in the Han Dynasty. In a word, today's literary school is Han Confucianism, which is based on the classics written by popular figures at that time, but mainly focuses on religious theology in metaphysics, and puts forward the viewpoint of adapting to the new era and new construction in social and political philosophy to explain Confucianism.