Abstract: In Mr. Fung Yu-Lan’s books on the history of Chinese philosophy,he not only inherited but also developed and renovated Confucian classical hermeneutic thoughts and methods. It was the inheritance and development to Confucius’s “a transmitter and not a maker,believing in and loving the ancients” that brought about Fung Yu-Lan’s transformation of hermeneutic thoughts and methods from “according to speaking” to “go on speaking”. It was the inheritance and development to Mencius’s historical hermeneutic method of “know about somebody and study his background” and psychological hermeneutic method of “speculate the thoughts of others according your own ideas” that brought about Fung Yu-Lan’s method of “interpretation to ancient thoughts” with “put yourself in the other” understanding and philosophical historian opinion.

Key words: Fung Yu-Lan, history of Chinese philosophy, hermeneutics