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Cheng Hsuan (or Zheng Xuan) (127-200) was an influential Confucian commentator. Events Births Deaths Categories: 127 ... For other uses, see number 200. ... Confucianism (儒家 Pinyin: rújiā The School of the Scholars), sometimes translated as the School of Literati, is an East Asian ethical, religious and philosophical system originally developed from the teachings of Confucius. ... A commentator is an individual who comments on sports, politics, current events, or public issues; synonyms include pundit. ...

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Pleasure and the Hermeneutics of Drunkeness (4001 words)
	During the second century A.D. at the end of the Han dynasty, the scholar Zheng Xuan (127-200) wrote the commentary on the Book of Songs that came to be the most widely read in early medieval China.
	In explicating the first stanza of the poem, Zheng Xuan describes how the imagery of the sopping dew on the branches of the vegetation corresponds with the degree of drunkeness of the banquet participants.
	Yet Zheng Xuan’s interpretation when viewed from a hermeneutical perspective is bound within his own societal perspective or his own “horizon” of interpretation.

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