近些年来,久被淡忘的“国学”一词忽地“热”了起来。不止一位青年朋友曾以此垂询:什么是“国学”?为了找答案,我也多少浏览了一些时贤论著,发现不少专家学者并不以此为然,认为这个概念大而无当,不宜提倡。追根溯源,“国学”之名盖始于晚清,是对“西学”而言的。其实它的内涵并不出清人治学的范畴,即义理、考据、辞章三者不可偏废之论是也。义理之学大概近于哲学思想;考据则以文字、声韵、训诂、目录、版本、校勘之学为主要内容;而辞章之学,则基本上指古典文学作品,当然也包括 In recent years, the term “Guoxue”, which has long been forgotten, suddenly and “hotly” rises. More than one young friend once inquired about this: What is “Guoxue”? In order to find out the answer, I also browsed some of the works of Shih-Yin and found that many experts and scholars did not take this as an excuse, promote. Tracing the source, “national studies ” in the name began in the late Qing Dynasty, is “Western learning ” terms. In fact, its connotation does not clarify the scope of scholarship, that is, justice, textual criticism, rhetoric can not be ignored. The theory of righteousness is probably similar to that of philosophical thought. The textual research includes texts, rhymes, exegesis, catalogs, versions and collation. The study of censorship basically refers to the works of classical literature, of course,