Zheng Xuan (English name)

Japanese: 鄭玄 - じょうげん（英語表記）Zheng Xuan

[Live] Yongjian 2(127). Beihai, Gaomi
[Died] Jian'an 5 (200)
A scholar of the Later Han Dynasty of China. Also read as "Teigen." He was a great master of classics, on a par with Zhu Xi of the Song Dynasty. His pen name was Kangcheng. He became a low-ranking government official at a young age, but later advanced to the Taixue School and studied under Ma Rong and others. He was imprisoned for 10 years for his involvement in the "Party Ban" and thereafter devoted himself to learning without serving in any other government for the rest of his life. He took the position of ancient literature and debated with the modern literature school, but he also studied modern and ancient literature, and revised the texts of almost all classics and major Wei texts, establishing a unified viewpoint and clarifying their interpretations. Many of his works have been lost, but the "Comments on the Analects," "Comments on the Lies of Zhou," "Comments on the Rites," "Comments on the Book of Rites," and "Comments on Mao Shi Zheng" have been handed down and are still the basis for classics research. The "Zheng Xuan Lost Book" is a collection of theories that remain in various books.

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Japanese:

[生]永建2(127).北海，高密
[没]建安5(200)
中国，後漢の学者。「ていげん」とも読む。宋代の朱子と並ぶ経学の大成者。字は康成。若年，下級の官吏となったが，のち太学に進み，また馬融らに学んだ。「党錮の禁」に連座して 10年間獄につながれ，その後，生涯仕えずに学問に専念した。古文学の立場をとり，今文学派と論争したが，今古文を兼修し，ほとんどすべての経書と主要な緯書とについて，本文を校定し，統一的見地を立てて，訓詁を明らかにした。多くは散逸したが，『論語注』『周礼注』『儀礼注』『礼記注』『毛詩鄭箋』が伝わっており，現在でも経書研究のよりどころになっている。諸書に残存する説を集めたものに『鄭玄佚書』がある。