The Tale of Han Ying’s Collection of Poetry Has Inherited the Viewpoint of Sage from Mencius——New Exploration on the Origin of the Tale of Han Ying’s Collection of Poetry
The ideas on obtaining the law from previous sages or making law after previous sages are two different viewpoints on sages of Confucianism,which is the key basis for distinguishing the school of Mencius from the school of Xunzi in Confucianism.Han Ying,who was regarded as a successor of Xunzi School,however,inherited a lot from sage viewpoints of Mencius in his Tale of Han Ying’s Collection of Poetry.The Tale of Han Ying’s Collection of Poetry expresses the viewpoints as the same as Mencius on esteeming the sages,extolling the sages or the judgment about the sages.This discovery prompts us that the origin of the Tale of Han Ying’s Collection of Poetry is worth being rethought.