Research On Collected Annotations On Literary Anthology

Collected Annotations on Literary Anthology was written in Daoguang times by Zhu Jian, a famous scholar in the Qing Dynasty. It is an essential book for the study of Literary Anthology. Its contents were quoted copiously from various sources, which gave supplements and remedies to the literary works or the explanatory notes in the Literary Anthology. But there are very few treatises on it, and the argument related to it is biased. This thesis puts forward some opinions on it to call the academic circles' attention to it. The thesis is divided into three parts. Part I Author and His Works. Zhu Jian (1769-1850) was born in Jing, Anhui. After getting his status of Pre- sented Scholar in the seventh of Jiaqing times (1802), he held office in the Imperial A- cademy, the Palace Secretariat Academy, and the Historiographic Academy. He presi- dented the provincial examination of Shandong in 1807. After his resignation, he su- pervised Zhongshan, Zhengyi and Ziyang Academy successively for thirty years. He had a good command of classics and the Han school of classics philology. He wrote and compiled a lot. Besides Collected Annotaions on Literary Anthology, his works in- cludes more than 400 volumes. There were several editions of Collected Annotation on Literary Anthology, in- cluding Zhu's family's block-printed edition printed in twelvth of Tongzhi times (1873), small ten-thousand-study's block-printed edition I)riflted. in the first of Guangxu (1875), Jiangxi's block-printed edition, and Guangwen Publishing House's type-setted-printed edition printed in Taiwan (1974). The edition being found easyly is Shougu Publishing House's block-printed edition printed in Shanghai (1928), whose pattern was Zhu?s family block-printed edition printed in twelvth of Tong7hi times (1873) Part II Reseach on Collected Annotations on Literary Anthology Itself In this part, the thesis analyses the works from the aspects of the stylistic rules and layout, and the contents The stylistic rules and layout of the work have two basic characteristics: the collected annotations explaining the connotation or denotation of words and sentences, and the collected annotations themselves supplementing each oth- er. The stylistic rules and layout of the work are neither a copy of the whole of Liter- ary Anthology, nor a explanatory notes of the literary works word by word It is sum- lar to the reading note, for its entries only includes the supplements and remedies to Li Shan?s explanatory notes, the differentiation and analysis on the misunderstanding with Li Shan?s explanatory notes, the judgement on the diverse and confwiing ex- piaination to the literary works The contents, as explained in Zhu?s own Preface to the work, include: to supple- ment to Li Shan?s omission, to examine and correct the faults of the characters, to ex- plain the name and description of a thing, to explicate the connotation and denotation of the literary works and the old notes The thesis divides the contents of the work into four categories (1) The statements to supplement Lu Shan?s This category includes these as- pectes: characters, phonology, critical interpretation of ancient texts, the name and description of a thing, history and geography, etc (2) The statements to correct the faults of the literary works themselves (3) The statement...