Research On The Preface And Postscript Of Song Dynasty Collection

The prefaces and postscripts to corpuses of Song Dynasty mainly refer to the prefaces and postscripts that are written by people of Song Dynasty, including not only those that are written by people of Song Dynasty for the corpuses of the dynasties before the Song, but also those that are written by them for the contemporary corpuses. The prefaces and postscripts to corpuses of Song Dynasty is rich in contents, which contain not only the lives of the authors of the corpuses and the evaluation on the works of the corpuses, but also the recordings of compilation, publication and spreading of the corpuses. The previous culture remains that are preserved after more than one thousand years provide us the first-hand data to do research on the literature of Song Dynasty thoroughly. On the foundation of tidying the related data, the dissertation does research on the prefaces and postscripts to corpuses of Song Dynasty from multi-angles comprehensively. The research contents of the dissertation include the following aspects:The part of the exordium deems firstly that the study on the prefaces and postscripts to corpuses of Song Dynasty await to go deep into further more after reviewing the status quo of the research on the theme. Secondly, on the foundation fo summarizing the antecedent research fruits, the author proposes the research meanings and the thinking approach of the dissertation; at last, the basic viewpoints and the innovative contents of the dissertation are brought forward.The first chapter is on the evolution of the prefaces and postscripts to corpuses in the period before Song Dynasty. The author tidies the far-flung process of appearing, developing and molding of the prefaces and postscripts to corpuses from dynasties before the Qin to Tang Dynasty firstly. The contents of the prefaces and postscripts to corpuses in dynasties before Song Dynasty develop from briefness to complexity, laying the foundation for the real prosperity of the equivalent articles in Song Dynasty. Then the author analyzes the historical and cultural reasons of the prosperity of the prefaces and postscripts to corpuses of Song Dynasty. In the period of Song Dynasty, the collection and compilation of corpuses becomes a common practice, the woodblock printing expands unprecedentedly, the press of corpuses develops prosperously, the disenchantment of the consciousness to the prefaces and postscripts appears timely. The instances above boost the prosperity of the prefaces and postscripts to corpuses of Song Dynasty.The second chapter is on the diachronic analyses of the prefaces and postscripts to corpuses of Song Dynasty. In order to review and grasp the developing process better, this chapter divides the historical period into five phases:the early time of Northern Song Dynasty, the later stage of Northern Song Dynasty, the stretching time of Southern Ferrying, the middle time of Southern Song Dynasty and the latter time of Southern Song Dynasty. Then the author analysis the prefaces and postscripts to corpuses of each period above in broad-brush ways, and reviews the characters of the prefaces and postscripts to corpuses in each phase and the deep-seated complex relations between them and the political history, social culture, academic thoughts.The third chapter is on the prefaces and postscripts to corpuses of Song Dynasty and the press of corpuses. This chapter reviews the characters of the publication of the corpuses of Song Dynasty, the impacts on the diffusion ways of corpuses and the academic activities after entering into the copy times. Because of the vogue of people of Song Dynasty studying from people of Tang Dynasty, the control of the government of Northern Song Dynasty on the press of the contemporary literators' corpuses and the forbiddance on "the learning of Yuanyou", the amounts of publishing of the corpuses of the dynasties before Song Dynasty is more than the corpuses of Song Dynasty. In the period of Southern Song Dynasty, because of the political orientation of "the favourite is the learning of Yuanyou" and the establishment of the literary apotheosis of Song Dynasty, the publication of the contemporary literators' corpuses comes into the golden age.The fourth chapter is on the contents of the regional and household cultural reviewing on the prefaces and postscripts to corpuses of Song Dynasty. Because of the profound historical cultural reasons, people of Song Dynasty often analyzes the authors and the works of the corpuses from the regional and household perspectives, so the author of the dissertation reviewed the prefaces and postscripts to corpuses of Song Dynasty from the regional and household perspectives. In the detailed contents, this chapter analyzes and discusses the reasons of people of Song Dynasty reviewing the authors and the works of the corpuses from the regional and household perspectives, including the forming and exhibition of the disenchantment of the regional and household consciousness of people of Song Dynasty. These instances involve the compilation of the regional almanacs, the literature anthologies, the stemmata books and the household anthologies. On the foundations, this chapter reviews the cognizance and exhibition of the characteristic "regional and household cultural traditions" in the prefaces and postscripts to corpuses of Song Dynasty.The fifth chapter is on the prefaces and postscripts to corpuses written by the followers of Neo-Confucianism of Song Dynasty and the Neo-Confucian culture. The Neo-Confucianism is very flourishing in the period of Song Dynasty, the prefaces and postscripts to corpuses indited by the followers of Neo-Confucianism that is a relative colony are different from those indited by those ecumenical literati. This chapter reviews the prefaces and postscripts to corpuses indited by the followers of Neo-Confucianism in the period of Song Dynasty from the wholeness firstly, and then plays the case study on Zhen Dexiu and Wei Liaoweng. After researching into the prefaces and postscripts to corpuses indited by the followers of Neo-Confucianism, we can apprehend the characteristic literary viewpoints and the aesthetic vogues of them.The sixth chapter is on the prefaces and postscripts to corpuses of the memorials to the throne and the political culture in Song Dynasty. In the period of Song Dynasty, the ebullient esquires take part in the political activities actively, and the memorials to the throne are one of the very important participant ways, so a great deal of memorials to the throne appears. The compilation and press of the corpuses of the memorials to the throne becomes a distinctive thing in the process of tidying and publishing of the anthologies else by people of Song Dynasty at last, and then a great lot of prefaces and postscripts to corpuses of the memorials to the throne are indited. Contraposed the relative exceptive article style, this chapter reviews the contents of the prefaces and postscripts to corpuses of the memorials to the throne different from those opposite general articles, and then summarizes the characters of the prefaces and postscripts to corpuses of the memorials to the throne in writing model accordingly.The part of the epilogue summarizes the whole dissertation, and then proposes the questions that need to be discussed still further more.