A Study On The Ancient Copy Of The Collected Annotations On Wen Xuan

The ancient copy of the Collected Annotations on Wen Xuan is a collection of five annotations:Li Shan's annotation, Copy of Wen Xuan, Selected Readings with Indications of Pronunciation, Wu Chen's annotation and Lu Shanjing's annotation. Before the remnant volumes of this copy were discovered, only Li Shan's and Wu Chen's annotations have completely come down to us while the other three have been lost. Therefore, since their discovery, these volumes, which include fragments of the lost three annotations, have been attracting great attention in the academic cycles and inspired lots of researches. However, generally speaking, the existing proofreading of them is not satisfying and the attention paid to Li Shan's annotation, which is the traditional mainstream annotation, is very inadequate.Focusing on the proofreading of Wen Xuan, this dissertation discusses in special subjects the various annotations in the remnant volumes. The content is as follows:(â… ) The chapter of introduction introduces the style of the remnant volumes andproves that the existing fragments are copies with deletions of the original texts.(â…¡) Li Shan's annotation. By using the fragments to review Li Shan's two key principles, which are "each citation is according to its original" and "omitted when appears the second time",68 typical errors in the traditional block-printed editions are sorted and corrected.(â…¢) The Copy of Wen Xuan and Indications of Pronunciation. This part first proves that these two annotations were actually done by Gongsun Luo, and then studies the old annotations, old pronunciations and variants of characters in them, analyses the texts of the Copy of Wen Xuan which appears in the block-printed edition of Li Shan's annotation.(â…£) Wu Chen's annotation. This part mainly studies on the variant pronunciations in Wu Chen's annotation and Indications of Pronunciation, and proofreads 25 errors in Li Shan's annotation.(â…¤) Lu Shanjing's annotation. This part focuses on the parts of special origins in Lu's variants, and incidentally discusses the Lu's annotation which appears in the block-printed edition of Li Shan's annotation.