ZHONG Xing's Brief Criticism about The Book of Songs

Zhong Xing was one of the representative experts who were involved in the high tide of the research on The Book of Songs in the late Ming Dynasty. He puts forward a theory: things in The Book of Songs were activated to be the guidance of his research. He approached The Book of Songs to the depth of its meaning and consulted it with argumentation. His originate commentaries and punctuations on The Book of Songs produced a great influence on the further researches of that book.