本文「經典評注對於文化範式轉變的作用」，在於描述中國古代學者如何通過經典詮釋闡發自身的哲學思想。並且，認為此詮釋活動常是與外在環境的政治、文化等種種變遷息息相關。本文提及由於明朝的亡國，清初儒者即把罪過歸於陸王心學，故就轉而發展傾向於物質主義的唯氣論之哲學體系，這是極為值得學者觀察的中國哲學史中的範疇之轉折。

The purpose of this article is to describe how classical Chinese scholars elucidated their own philosophical thinking through commentaries to the classics. It maintains, moreover, that such interpretation was often intimately bound to changes in the external political and cultural environment. This article points out that, since early Qing Confucians placed the blame for the fall of the Ming Dynasty on the philosophies of Lu Jiuyuan and Wang Yangming (i.e. – the so-called “the Learning of the Mind”), there occurred at that time a shift in academic interests that emphasized a materialistic philosophical system centered on a “Theory of Qi (Material Force).” This modification of the scope of the history of Chinese philosophy is much worthy of scholars’ attention.