Jian Zheng has already answered the above questions in The Mirror of Shi Mao.
Shi Mao Bamboo Slips is a collection of three poems of Mao Zhuan, and Mao Zhuan is an interpretation of the original text of The Book of Songs.
As for why not do the biography of the ram:
Please refer to:
Biography of the Ram, also known as Biography of the Ram in the Spring and Autumn Period and Ram in the Spring and Autumn Period, is an ancient book dedicated to explaining the Spring and Autumn Period. Its starting and ending years are the same as those in the Spring and Autumn Period, that is, from 722 BC to 48 BC1year. Its interpretation history is very brief, emphasizing the so-called "subtle meaning" in the Spring and Autumn Period, and interpreting classics by means of questions and answers.
Later, the books that annotated The Biography of the Ram mainly included The Biography of the Spring and Autumn Ram by He Xiu in the Eastern Han Dynasty, The Biography of the Ram by Yan Xu in the Tang Dynasty and The Biography of the Ram by Chen Li in the Qing Dynasty.
Therefore, He Xiu's interpretation of the biography of the Spring and Autumn Ram is the annotation of the biography of the Ram, and the biography of the Ram is the annotation of the Spring and Autumn Annals.
Therefore, He Xiu and He Maojian actually indirectly annotated The Spring and Autumn Annals and The Book of Songs, but Mei disdained it and thought that Ouyang Xiu's works were more worth pushing. But in fact, since we compare them with Mao's works, we affirm their academic status from the opposite side.
The following can be used as a reference:
Ouyang Xiu lived in a transitional period from Sinology to Song Studies in the history of Confucian classics. Together with other scholars of the same period, he insisted on the attitude of believing in the classics and doubting the biography. He thinks that "the worry of the world comes first in summer, and the chaos of Qin and Han Dynasties comes to talk about vanity" (reading), and puts forward the principle of Confucian classics that "the worry of the world comes first without worry, and the courage of the world comes after it without chaos" (the first public deed). Mei Yaochen once recorded his way of learning: "Ask what to learn and criticize Jian Zheng." The letter to Ouyang Yongshu shows great contempt for He Xiu's Biography of the Ram and Zheng Xuan's annotation of The Book of Songs. Ouyang Xiu's representative works of Confucian classics include three volumes of Yi Tong Wen Zi and sixteen volumes of Poem Original Meaning. The former can be confirmed to have been written before Li Qing. According to the following six articles in the Book of Changes, there is no agreement. The writing is titled "Zi Yue" and quotes historical records of the pre-Qin period. It is presumed that "none of them are the works of saints, and the opinions are confused, not the words of one person", and it is denied that this part was written by Confucius and is a collection of post-Confucian lectures. When studying the Book of Songs, Ouyang Xiu first thought that the Preface of Poetry was not written, and then criticized Mao and Zheng's interpretation of the Preface of Poetry. In other works, he also questioned Zhou Li, The Book of Rites and The Spring and Autumn Annals. The General Catalogue of Sikuquanshu (Volume 159) summarizes the original meaning of poetry: "Since the Tang Dynasty, people who speak poetry have never dared to comment on Mao and Zheng. Although the teacher stayed in Confucianism, he kept a small preface. In the Song Dynasty, the new meanings gradually increased, and the old ones were abolished. From the original, they were put into practice. " Affirm Ouyang Xiu's pioneering work in the formation of Song studies. Yang Xinxun, a modern man, wrote A Study on Doubting Confucian Classics in Song Dynasty (Zhonghua Book Company, March 2007), and also thought that Ouyang Xiu's "Doubting Confucian Classics is in contrast with his thought of reviving Confucianism" and that "the Confucianism he revived is neo-Confucianism". This attitude of Neo-Confucianism in interpreting Confucian classics has been implemented in the original meaning of poetry. Mr. Pei Puxian's Study on the Original Meaning of Poetry (Dongda Bookstore, June19865438+July 0) especially leads to a paragraph criticizing the interpretation of Guan Ju by Han Confucianism, which is summarized as "This is to distinguish Mao and Zheng by inhumanity. It is not far away for those who seek poetry to ask for it with human feelings. But scholars often go too far and lose their original meaning. " Taking human feelings and common sense as the principle of poetry interpretation is the criterion of Ouyang Xiu's Poetry, which is actually the basis of Song studies.