大学·中庸译注

The Great Learning and The Doctrine of the Mean are books of the series.The Great Learning is one of the ancient Chinese classics, was originally a part in Book of Rites. Before Tang Dynasty, it did not cause special concern. It was paid more attention by Han Yu until the Tang Dynasty. Until the Song Dynasty, the founder of Science Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi attached great importance to The Great Learning, called ""the posthumous book of Confucius, and the door into De for beginers."" A master of Science Zhu Xi of Southern Song Dynasty said: ""Tian Yun cycle, no inverse"" Later, on the basis of Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi, Zhu Xi divided it by chapter, from one to ten chapters, and believed that the chapter of ""investigating matter"" has been missing, so he made the supplement to the book. Interpretation of Zhu Xi to The Great Learning was a re-interpretation, in other words, it was a new understanding from the perspective of Science. It fully embodied the Mind of science, and made the The Great Learning a philosophy. From then on, Science not only inherited the orthodoxy, but also have the scale of itself. The Doctrine of the Mean is a important Confucian classics, just like the Book of Changes, they are all the sources of Confucian theory. However, the Book of Changes has more influences than The Doctrine of the Mean, covering a wide range. The Doctrine of the Mean is the focus of the later Confucians study in Song Dynasty. Confucianism, particularly science, and many concepts and propositions are from the The Doctrine of the Mean. Many scholars of science hold tightly to the creed of the Doctrine of the Mean, many Confucians thinking with the methodology of the The Doctrine of the Mean, from which we can see the far-reaching influence of the Doctrine of the Mean to the formation of Chinese civilization.