Characteristics and Meanings of 明皐 徐瀅修's Commentary on the ‘二南’ Poems in the Shijing: Focusing on the 按說 in the <周南>·<召南> of 『詩故辨』

This paper aims to examine the characteristics and meanings of 明皐 徐瀅修's Commentary on the ‘二南’ Poems in the Shijing(詩經). 徐瀅修 is an official and scholar of the late Joseŏn Dynasty. Through this examination, we can see that 明皐's commentary tends to be a ‘Han-Song compilation’ that does not lean towards either the old or the new commentaries, and the commentaries he references are broad in scope, covering the Han(漢), Tang(唐), Song(宋), Ming(明), and Qing(淸) periods, which was made possible with the help of 『欽定詩經傳說彙纂』. This does not mean, however, that the various theories cited in 『彙纂』 were copied, or that the theories of Wang Hongxu(王鴻緖) in the 『彙纂』, were adopted. The theories we have examined in this article show that 明皐's theories refer to a variety of sources, but they also make their own distinctions, and at the center of them is 明皐's own judgment. 明皐's theory of the Shijing can be defined as a kind of ‘independent school’, and the composition of the 『詩故辨』 was written in this free spirit. Further analyses of the other chapters besides <周南> and <召南> are expected to reveal more details about the characteristics of 明皐's theory of the Shijing.