to understand the relationship between exegetics and literature, we must first understand what exegetics is and what literature is.
first, the basic concepts of exegetics and literature
1. Exegetics: the popular explanation of the word meaning is called "Xun", and the modern explanation of the ancient language is called "Exegetics". Exegetics is an interpretation of Chinese ancient books and a comprehensive applied discipline. Interpretation and reading of Chinese ancient books all start with words and phrases, and the ultimate goal is to understand the will of ancient languages and texts. Mr. Yin Menglun said: "Exegetics is a branch of Chinese linguistics. It is a science that takes semantics as the core, explains language with language and correctly understands and uses language. Therefore, it is a comprehensive discipline with interpretation, translation (correspondence) and related knowledge in all aspects."
2. literature: literature is an art that vividly reflects the objective reality and expresses the writer's inner world by using language and writing, including poems, essays, novels, plays, fables and fairy tales, etc. It is an important manifestation of culture; Literature is the art of language, an important manifestation of social culture and the embodiment of beauty. Literature is one of the disciplines of humanities, and it keeps pace with philosophy, religion, law and politics in the upper class.
second, a brief analysis of the relationship between exegetics and contemporary literature
emphasize that the literature here mainly refers to contemporary literature; It is said to be contemporary literature because literature also contains classical literature, which also belongs to the category of exegetics.
Many people think that exegetics seems to have little to do with contemporary literature. However, when contemporary writers are engaged in literary creation, they will inevitably involve some common sense problems in ancient Chinese and ancient culture. Extracting some influential examples and classic words and expressions can enhance the knowledge and rationality of literary works, and apply exegetics to literary creation in a proper amount, which has positive practical significance for explaining similar problems in modern times.
The history of exegetics in China since the Han Dynasty is a history of textual research on the meaning of ancient documents and the understanding of ancient documents by exegetists. The ancient saying "Six Classics Note Me, I Note Six Classics" (Lu Jiuyuan's language) reveals the nature of exegetics.
it is precisely because of their profound knowledge of ancient literature that the ancients were able to write classics of Chinese studies and poems and songs that have been handed down through the ages that they had available materials. Today's people are far behind the ancients in the basic skills of available ancient Chinese materials, and even in the cultivation of traditional exegetical theory, which leads to problems such as penetrating the side notes, looking at literature to give birth to training, arbitrarily breaking words, adding words and explaining them, and not understanding grammar. Because of many mistakes in understanding, it is naturally difficult to write high-quality classics that can be passed down to future generations.
to sum up, we can see that exegetics is one of the important elements to test the quality of contemporary literature. Therefore, a real literary worker must also be an expert in exegetics.