1929 Mr. Chen Yinque wrote an inscription for Wang Guowei, in which "independent spirit and free thought" first put forward by Mr. Wang has become the academic spirit and value orientation pursued by intellectuals in China today, and will surely become the life ideal of all China people after modernization.
Chen Yinque believes that for academic research, we must have our own independent thinking ability and free will, and should not be hindered by other things, which is also a wake-up call for later academic circles.
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Chen, the father of Chen Yinque, was one of the "Four Childes" in the late Qing Dynasty and a famous poet. Grandfather Chen Baozhen was the governor of Hunan. The wife is the granddaughter of Tang, the governor of Taiwan Province Province. Because of his fame and profound knowledge, he was called "the son of a son, the professor of a professor" when he was teaching in Tsinghua. He is the author of The Origin of Sui and Tang Dynasties System, The Political History of Tang Dynasty, A Proof of Bai Yuan's Poems, Jin Mingting's Poems, Liu Chuan, A Dream in Cold Current Hall, etc.
Chen has devoted himself to historical research for a long time, with a wide range of research. He has made important contributions to the history of Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, religious history (especially the history of Buddhism), ethnic history of the western regions, Mongolian history, ancient linguistics, Dunhuang studies, China classical literature, historical methods and so on. The main purpose of Chen Yinque's reading is to seek knowledge in history. He inherited the scientific spirit that Ganjia scholars in Qing Dynasty paid attention to evidence and facts in studying history, and also absorbed the western "historical evolutionary method", that is, to examine history from the evolution and connection of things.
Exploring historical materials, using this method of combining Chinese and western research and comparison, some materials are traced back to the source and verified accurately. And on this basis, pay attention to the comprehensive analysis of historical facts, find out the key points from the connection of many things, so as to solve a series of problems and get the truth of historical features. His accurate textual research method surpassed the scholars in Qianlong and Jiaqing periods, and developed China's historical textual research.
Most of Chen Yinque's works are textual research, but his textual research methods are different from those in the traditional sense. On the basis of textual research and historical facts, he also paid attention to exploring the law of historical development. Chen Yinque not only inherited the practical, precise and rigorous textual research of Ganjia scholars, but also absorbed the style of pursuing justice and reasoning of Song scholars and paid attention to the exploration of historical laws. Under the influence of the western historical language textual research school, he attached great importance to the study of language tools and mastered more than a dozen foreign languages.
By using the language tools he mastered, he made a comparative study of Chinese and foreign materials: under the influence of western cultural historiography, he introduced the viewpoint of cultural historiography into historical research and studied it from the perspectives of nationality and culture, thus expanding the scope of historical research. On the premise of inheriting the tradition, Chen Yinque innovated the textual research method and formed his own unique new textual research method. Its textual research method is characterized by "mutual proof of poetry and history" and comparative method. ?
"Mutual verification of poetry and history" is the most widely used and unique textual research method of Chen Yinque in his research. Although Chen Yinque was not the first person to put forward this method, he put it into practice and achieved fruitful results. He first noticed the historical value of Tang poetry. Because the authors of Tang poetry come from all walks of life, many works in Tang poetry directly reflect real life and can correct the shortcomings and mistakes of official history. Besides Tang poetry, novels can also be used to prove history.
He also put forward some principles that should be paid attention to when using novels to prove history. Liu Zhuan is the representative work of Chen Yinque's "Mutual Proof of Poetry and History". This book systematically discusses a series of important historical events in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties through the annotation of Qian and Liu's poems. The application of Chen Yinque's method of "mutual proof of poetry and history" is not only the expansion of historical materials, but also the innovation of textual research methods.
The method of comparative method is embodied in his comparative study of Chinese and foreign materials by using the language tools he has mastered, and found many problems that have not been discovered by predecessors, and expounded his own views. He has made many achievements in the study of Mongolian history in this way; He also researched some place names in history books and some mistakes in the process of translating books. Rainbow Guowei and Chen Yinque also paid attention to the comparative study of above-ground objects and underground objects, especially using the data unearthed in Dunhuang to interpret the literature records, and made many discoveries.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Chen Yinque