The Research Of Yu Jiaxi’s "A New Account Of The Tales Of The World" Annotation And Commentary

"A New Account of the Tales of the World" is a collection of literary stories about the famous literati from Han Dynasty to Wei Jin’s words and deeds, which reflecting the political form from the Wei and Jin Dynasties to the Six Dynasties Period, customs and institutions, aesthetic taste, The features of social life and thoughts. It is a very good historical materials we can seek for that period of history and culture. There was Jingyin’s notes has lost and what we can see is Liu xiaobiao’s notes which has detailed description and extensive citations. Because of the distant time, it is necessary for us to do a further research about the "A New Account of the Tales of the World" and Liu’s notes which has many errors In the process of spreading, such as many scattered annotated bibliographic citations.In recent years, there are many researches on this book, There are many people in the study of this book, having their own value and the pros and cons. Mr. Yu made a comprehensive and detailed study of this book, especially many items which reflect his patriotism and unique historical perspective, which give us different observation perspective. And, these all can be attributed to the times.The dissertation talks about this book staring from it’s writing reasons.The first chapter made a summary of the book and made a generalization of Mr. Yu, which is a basic of analyzing the content and thought deeply. Strong family history, minded friends Mr Yu Jiaxi’s strong academic ambition and especially coincides with the moment of national crisis. Mr. Yu wrote this book under the influence of these factors. the purpose of this book is learning from the lessons of history and encourage younger students. It is a pity that he was not able to edit and publish it. However, thanks to the help of his family and friends carefully, this book can be published repeatedly so as to provide information for the study and research of modern people.The paper analyzed the notes annotation style from the second chapter. The main body of the quotation was sorted into five sectors,such as the former annotation,classic quotation, text citation, author himself notes; the content could be divided into five parts, explanation of the words, emendation, discrimination, making good omissions and deficiencies, exploring the source of the items, evaluating of history and events. And there exits six method which Mr. Yu used to finish his study. In order to know the full view of this book, I also generalized the nature of this book from the information quantity, study method, key point, attitude to previous studies achievement, concern of readers, all of these respects.The third chapter analyzed the various aspects of content and annotation. We can find annotation and comments features from typical cases, explain it’s value, and discuss the question unsolved furthermore. The book involve a number of comments related to historical truth, Wei Jin atmosphere, the ideology of scholars, social psychology and Ideology which could be set out by analyzing of typical items. These characteristics are inseparable from the prosperous of exegetic in Qing dynasty, the thriving of humanistic pragmatism from early years of the Qing dynasty and are closely linked to the historical, social, thinking environment in the late Qing dynasty humility conditions as well as Mr. Yu’s emotion of "Family-country", worrying about our country.Finally, the essay made a conclusion of this book’s pros and cons by analyzing and summarizing of the content: widely quoted historical materials, fine selection of materials, attached importance to historical materials, Rational judgments on previous results, and boldly questioned, careful verification, sufficient demonstration, even more incisive original idea. At the same time, the evaluation criteria of right and wrong is on the basis of history and the era. There are more analysis and less assertion, or more question about the history and other’s notes for later scholars to discuss. But there also exits some multifarious and interminable citation and discussion as well as some mistakes. However, we should extract the history, philological value, make highly affirm of it age implication, and pay more attention to it’s significance of modern academic research, especially about the expansion of “A New Account of the Tales of the World” field of study and the research content deepening.The paper discussed the academic achievement of Mr.Yu and his “a new account of the tales of the world ” annotations and comments thoroughly, from the perspective of philology, historical materialism and development view, under the condition of great historical and cultural background and practical significance conditions. In order to learn academic ideology about Mr. Yu, the impact of modern history Humanistic Thought upon this book, the modern people’s acceptance of it, especially have a deeper analysis and understand of his academic mien, the evaluation of characters and events what Mr. Yu think of. And then, refer to the notes contribution to modern academy and culture in today, given Mr. Yu and this book a fair evaluation. The book, which is rooted in the age, reflected the characteristics of the times, is a classic work, and it will improve our cognitive level of the era in which Yu lived,even more our deep introspection on modern ideological concepts.