On the Saying "Historical Six Classics"by Zhang Xuecheng

Gu Yanwu,who lived in the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty,pointed out that the study of classics was the study of idealist philosophy and started the fextualism of the generation.During the time of Emperor Qianglong and Emperor Jiaqing,textualism was in its period of great prosperity.Also,it was gradually divorced from reality and its disadvantages were increasingly clear.In view of this atmosphere,Zhang Xuecheng,a famous thinker and historian,pointed outHistorical Six Classics He emphasized theories should not seperate from human offairs and opposed textualism for textualism,trying to retrieve the atmosphere of practice.