Abstract:
Master Jiao’s Interpretations of The Book of Changes, written by Jiao Gan in the West Han Dynasty, involved The Book of Songs in many parts and contained abundant information of studies of The Book of Songs in the Han Dynasty. Jiao’s work didn’t limit its studies of The Book of Songs only to any particular one of the four schools in studies of The Book of Songs in the dynasty but incorporated the four schools together. In addition, it was related in a way to Confucian Poetics in the bamboo slips of the Chu kingdom, and expressed the author’s original insights, denying those improper arguments regarding the studies of The Book of Songs merely as the Qi’s poetry or as the Han’s poetry. In this connection, it is certainly significant and worthwhile for research of studies of The Book of Songs in the Han Dynasty and of the devices and features in the text of the work itself ton investigate the studies of The Book of Songs in Master Jiao’s Interpretations of The Book of Changes.
