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Sung dynasty. ThisappearedfirstintheImperialedition,
publishedsoon afterA. D. IOOO, edited by Hsing
P'ing g_ _. that part of it relating to the Analects being
known as the Lun Yii Ch&ag I _, _ _ _..But very
soon afterwards the prince of Chinese commentators arose
in the person of Chu Hsi :_ ,_,., whose voluminous
writings and commentaries, composed during the twelfth
century, are the crown of China's scholarship. His interpretation
of the Analects, despite the many attacks that
have since been made thereon, has been accepted as
orthodoxy from his day to our own. His three works on
the Analects are the Lun Yu Chi I, _ _ _ _, the
Lun Yfi Chi Chu, _ _ _ _, and theLunYfiHuo
W_n _ --_
As an instance, however, of the zeal with which the
various interpretations of Chutz_t have been debated the
following amusing incident is recorded. Li Cho Wu ._.
d4__-_ an erratic scholar of the sixteenth century, who
afterwards turned Buddhist, is said to have been so annoyed
with Chu-tzfi's views, that he had a wooden image made
of the great commentator, with hand outstretched palm
upwards. This he placed in his study and many times a
day did he relieve his ire, when angered by Chu's interpretations,
by beating with a ruler the hand of the unconscious
image, demanding how he, Chu, had dared to
put such mistaken ideas before the world l
The third school of interpreters belongs to the present
dynasty, and reached its climax in the works of Mao Ch'i
Ling _c_ _ _ whose nomme de plume was Hsi Ho
%_ig.His works, the Hsi Ho Ch'iian Chi _][[ _ _. _[$,