朱熹「楚辭集注」攷

Abstract

The Annotations to the Ch'u-tz'u is a work of Chu Hsi's last years. In this work, the attitudes expressed toward literature and humanity is different from the works of his prime when he devoted himself in culminating the system of tao-hsüeh 道學. His dismissal from the government and the dreadful suppression of his scholarship as a "false learning" 僞學 became a catalyst in this change of attitude toward literature and humanity. Chu Hsi lived his late years under the pressure of criticisms from the government and rival philosophy schools. He also experienced many disappointments in his relations with other people. Within the Ch'u-tz'u, he detected the same despair upon which his own late attitude toward humanity was based. By joining of this bitter attitude toward humanity with a strong spirit which has not yet lost its tranquility (this spirit is also expressed in his opposition to the "literature of resentment" which he understood the Ch'u-tz'u to be), the excellent exegesis Annotations to the Ch'u-Tz'u was produced.