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IV._Works on the AnalecLs.
There have been three great schools of commentators
on lbe Classics. The first was that of the ttan _ dynasty,
the second that of the Sung 51_ and the third that of the
present Ch'ing f_ dynasty. The earliest commentator of
all was K'ung An Kuo ;tL _ [_l_ B. C. I4o-I5O, the
head of the Confucian family when certain of the Classics
were recovered from the wall of the K'ung house.
Though his work on the Analects was lost, traces of it are
found in the works of the commentators who followed
him. The more noted of An Kuo's successors was _Pao
Hsien. {g /_ A. D. 2 5, Ma Yung _ _]_, A. D. 13o,
and his contempo,'ary Chang Hsfian _1_ ._ (_ _ _),
But the principal work of this, the Han dynasty, in tile
time of the " Three Kingdoms," was that of the five
scholars and ministers of the Kingdom of Wei _)l_, the
chief of whom was Ho Yen fffJ _:, by whose name the
publication is generaIly known. This work, the Lun Yfi
Chi Chieh, _t _ _ )_ embodied the labours of alt
predecessors, and is in existence and regular use to the
present day. This then is the highly valuable bequest
made by the Han school to posterity.
In the dynasties that followed other commentators arose,
the result of whose efforts was embodied in the works of
Ituang K'an _ _1_, published in the sixth century, under
the title of Lun Y_'lSu _ _ _j_, All preceding works
however were overshadowed by the scholarship of the