经典是民族语言、文化与思想的象征性符号。中国古代的经典系统每隔数百年就会发生一次重建运动，如从五经到七经、九经、十三经的演变，又如清代段玉裁的“二十一经”、沈涛的“十经”、刘恭冕的“二十一经”和龚自珍的“六艺之配”等。晚清章太炎也通过回归原典的方式，以《周易》、《论语》、《老子》和《庄子》建构了“四玄”经典系统，并为“四玄”建立了“域中四圣”的传道谱系、“无我”的一贯道体，以及忠恕、克己、绝四等修养工夫论，从而将儒释道思想融通为一，形成了一种传统与现代相结合的新经学，即四玄学。

“Four Profundities”: Zhang Taiyan’s Conception of “New Confucian Classics”

Huang Yanqiang

Classics are the symbolic symbol of national language, culture and thought. The reconstruction of ancient Chinese classical system took place every hundreds of years. For example, from the Five Confucian Classics to the Seven Confucian Classics, the Nine Confucian Classics and the Thirteen Confucian Classics; and Duan Yucai’s “Twenty-one Confucian Classics”, Shen Tao’s “Ten Confucian Classics”, Liu Gongmian’s “Twenty-one Confucian Classics”, and Gong Zizhen’s “Coordination of Six Confucian Classics”, and so on. Zhang Taiyan also passed the way of returning to the original classics, constructing the Classic System of “Four Profundities” consisting of The Book of Changes, The Analects of Confucius, Laozi, and Zhuangzi. According to such system, he also established a preaching pedigree of “four sages”, a consistent Tao with “no ego”, as well as moral cultivation including loyalty, restraint of one’s selfishness, and etc. Thus Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism were integrated into one, and a combination of traditional and modern studies of Confucian classics was formed.