The Formation of Wang Bi′s Annotation of Lao Tzu and the Amalgamation of Taoism and Confucianism in Metaphysics Background

Wang Bi′s Annotation of Lao Tzu formed in the period of the academic turning from the classic Learning to the metaphysics between the Han-Wei dynasties.In Annotation of Lao Tzu,by wedding the needs of the then society,Wang Bi creatively put forward the concept of advocating noumenon and restraining end and the rationale of ethic being derived from nature.And based on the concept and the rationale,Wang Bi systematically expounded and proved the relationship between Taoism and Confucianism.This not only theoretically solved the problem of the amalgamation of Taoism and Confucianism at that time,but also had an important methodological significance in promoting Lao Tzu hermeneutic and development of the research on the history of Taoism.