Abstract

In this paper, Dai Zhen's "moderate sidebar" is the theme, try to explore their "mean" Line in the special interpretation and ideas, and explain its interpretation of the classic history of significance. Dai yin and yang is that all of this, popular for its gasification Heaven. People from the gasification of yin and yang in the share of the popular air, is the basis of sex, the human heart contains blood to know, in order to keep human demand are equal, then have a humane existence. Daily human relations of humanity that is often, "moderate" refers to human relations in daily use in the performance of the road often, efforts to make their own together in the middle, Road is not esoteric far, Dai strongly emphasized the practical and easy to practice moderation sex. "Moderate" interpretation of the Dai, showing a distinct personality and science. "Mean-meeting note," Although the history of thought in classical studies has not yet received attention, but its presence confirms the law of circulation Chinese classic commentaries, and remind us of the classic text may still be some room for interpretation and discussion. This paper is intended to explore Dai Zhen's special interpretational principles and thinking about The Doctrine of the Mean based on his Added Annotations to the Doctrine of the Mean and explain his importance in the history of the interpretations of classics. Dai Zhen believed that yin-yang and the five elements were the basis of all things. "The mean" was to follow the way of the mean in everyday life, which was neither exotic nor obscure. Accentuating the commonness and practicability of the mean, Dai Zhen's interpretations of The Doctrine of the Mean showed a character totally different from the one of Neo-Confucianism. Though so far neglected in the intellectual history of classical works, the very existence of Added Annotations to the Doctrine of the Mean proves the circular rule of the annotations of Chinese classics; furthermore, it reminds us of the possible room for the interpretations and discussions of classic texts