An Important Breakthrough in the Study of Zhuangzi——a view of Zhuangzi Kouyi by Lin Xiyi

Zhuangzi holds a special position for its profound ideological worth and literary value.However,before the Song Dynasty,researchers devoted most of their efforts to the interpretation of the righteousness and logics or the explanation of the words and sentences.It was Zhuangzi Kouyi by Lin Xiyi—a specialist in the Confucian School in the Song Dynasty—that started to interpret Zhuangzi comprehensively from the perspective of literature.Zhuangzi Kouyi is one of the masterpieces on Zhuangzi in the Song Dynasty and an extraordinary work for its unique features among all the books interpreting Zhuangzi.Besides interpreting Zhuangzi from the perspective of Buddhism and the Confucian school of idealist philosophy,this book successfully offers a comprehensive and in-depth interpretation of Zhuangzi from the perspective of literature,such as the expressions,structures,rhetorical devices and the styles of the articles.It is really a breakthrough in the study of Zhuangzi and has initiated the pioneering work in interpreting Zhuangzi from the perspective of literature in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.