姚配中《易學闡元》初探

A Preliminary Exploration of Yao Pei-Zhong's Yi Xue Chan Yuan

姚配中為清朝嘉慶、道光時期的易學家，於惠棟、張惠言兩人之後闡揚漢易。姚氏除了承襲惠、張易學外，更在漢、魏、唐三代的基礎上，建立出一套「易元」理論架構，能成一家之言，清末民初的學者多稱許之，其易學應當有值得深究之處，可惜卻不被今日的學術界所重。晚清張壽榮摘錄《周易姚氏學》卷首三篇易學通論，獨立刊刻成《易學闡元》一書，為姚配中畢生易學思想精要。本研究以此書為門徑，試著闡述其內容、解《易》特色、對「易元」理論之繼承與發揚，冀望能藉由對《易學闡元》的初步探討，稍微窺見姚配中易學之堂奧。

Yao Pei-Zhong was a Yi-ologist in the Jiaqing and Daoguang periods of the Qing Dynasty. After Hui Dong, and Zhang Hui-Yan, he interpreted the Yi learning of the Han Dynasty. In addition to inheriting the Yi-ology of Hui Dong, and Zhang Hui-Yan, he set up based on the Yi learning of the Han, Wei, and Tang Dynasties the theoretical structure for the essence of Yi and became a master. Most of the scholars in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China praised Yao Pei-Zhong. Yao's Yi-learning is worth exploration. However, it is a pity that Yao's Yi learning is not valued by today's academia. In the late Qing Dynasty, Zhang Shou-Rong selected the first three articles from Zhouyi Yao Shi Xue, which were about the general theory of Yi-ology, and printed them as a separate book, Yi Xue Chan Yuan, representative of the extracted Yi-ology thoughts of Yao Pei-Zhong. In the current study, Yi Xue Chan Yuan was researched as a path to Yao's thoughts. The contents of Yi Xue Chan Yuan, the characteristics of Yi Xue Chan Yuan in interpreting Zhouyi, and the inheriting and developing of Yi Xue Chan Yuan for Yao's essence-of-Yi theory were illustrated in this study. It was hoped that the depth of Yao's Yi-ology could be looked into slightly through this study.