The Academic Tenet of the School of Textual Research on The Book of Songs in Qing Dynasty

As the main stream of the study of The Book of Songs in Qing Dynasty,the school of textual research on The Book of Songs gained extraordinary achievement in textual research on written language,names of things,ancient laws and regulations under the direction of the purpose of the study on The Book of Songs,which were to gain the keynot of The Book of Songs by tradition philosophy and pursuit of truth and antiquity.Among them some scholars could regard purpose of the text as the principle of interpretation at most and gave some contribution to the interpretation of The Book of Songs from scriptural to literary.