Yang Bojun "spring And Autumn Zuo Note" Research

A great number of scholars keep on studying and annotating Chun Qiu Zuo Zhuan(annotation to The Spring and Autumn Annals by Zuo )from the Han Dynasty. Making use of formers' achievements, Yang Bojun's annotation to Chun Qiu Zuo Zhuan ('Yang's annotation'for short) is the best one of this kind of works we can find. It explains many difficulties by paying attention to proof and distinguishing right from wrong. And it is creative in not only content but style and form of annotation and collation to Chun Qiu Zuo Zhuan.Yang's annotation has outstanding traits, such as thorough annotations, abundant contents, detailed comments; cautious selection from extensive material, appropriate summaries; emphasis on textual criticism and differentiation; deference to the historical truth and so on.Being two important aspects, explanation to words and sentences take a great part of Yang's annotations. It has tree kinds of words explanation, meaning exegeses, phonetics exegeses and grapheme.and three kinds sentences explanation, interpreting one, narrating one and comprehensive one. According to the fact, every method has its branch types from two or three to fore or five. What's more, each type is a characteristic way to decipher words and sentences, forming an annotation system in the mass. Textual criticism and differentiation are broadly used not only for deciphering words and sentences but also collation and punctuation in Yang's book. He always handles many methods flexibly, quoting broadly, distinguishing according to systems, deducing logically or checking old annotations.Yang's Annotations has entire style and form with its main body and additional part Its main body is narrated in the style of annotations, not single one but comprehensive one combining annotation, textual criticism, phonetic notation, and differentiation. Its additional part has Preface, referring bibliography, routine, pictures of referring wares, dictionary to Chun Qiu Zuo Zhuan, translation of Zuo Zhuan, showing five narration styles. Due to its complete and proper style and form of annotated and collated work, it...