Title: Korean Litteraeur Kim Taek-yeong’s Textual Research on Book of Songs and The Analects

Abstract: Kim Taek-yeong paid great attention to the Book of Songs, The Analects and Confucius. His article discussed many issues，such as Confucius’s deletion of poetry from the Book of Songs，Zheng and Wei’s poetry is obscene, Confucius’s autocracy and respect for Emperor Yao, and the understanding of the sentence “I give my approval to Dian” in The Analects.The proposition of these questions has a deep cultural background，Kim Taek-yeong’s exposition shows a relatively distinct feature, which is of great significance for the research about the history of study on Book of Songs，and the history of study on The Analects.

Keywords: Kim Taek-yeong, the history of study on Book of Songs, the history of study on The Analects

Author: Cheng Wang, Associate Professor, Liberal Arts College, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.