Three Books on Rites (the Rites of Zhou; Ceremonies and Rituals; the Book of Rites) derivated some different versions, as a result brought about some different characters while they floated about. Zheng Xuan of last years of Eastern Han Dynasty collat...
Three Books on Rites (the Rites of Zhou; Ceremonies and Rituals; the Book of Rites) derivated some different versions, as a result brought about some different characters while they floated about. Zheng Xuan of last years of Eastern Han Dynasty collated these different characters when he noted Three Books on Rites. A important principle Zheng Xuan followed to collate Three Books on Rites was that discriminating and accepting staple and easily comprehensible characyers for people of that day, but refusing those rare and deep words, and only retaining them in comments. After testually researching Zheng Xuan’s comments, I sumed up different 24 kinds of things illustrateed by examples in this paper.