Jin Books Collation And Studies Note

"JinShuJiaoZhu" is one detailed annotation work for "JinShu" which was written Tang Dynasty, Wu Shijian is the author. In "JinShuJiaoZhu", all previous teaching of the scholar were synthesized and brought to their higher development. This article includes six parts:Part one; According to "HanJiaShi ZiDingNianPu", we made a detail description of author's life and made a catalogue for his all works.Part two; we inspected the course of the writing. It takes Wu Shijian more than ten years to write this book. With regard to the author of this book, we consider that Liu Chenggan didn't compose this book; he only provided funds to inscribe the book.Part three; we made a detail analysis of collator achievement of this book. "JinShu" which was inscribed by JinLingShuJu is the original text of "JinShuJiaoZhu". On the basis of this text, Wu Shijian widely absorbed previous fruit and composed this book. Wu Shijian compared the words and sentence from different edition. He only checks against "JinShu" with itself, other books or without anything except for inference. Some time, Wu Shijian used many methods of collator at the same time.Part four; the style of annotation. Wu Shijian summed up ten types of annotation style in his book. We made a subject analysis of these styles of annotation. we think, not all these styles conformed to reality, some types are not accurate.Part five; the studying of annotation. There are five kinds of annotation in this book. First, Wu Shijian supplemented with new material, for example, the family's social standing, officer career, years, and geography. Second, he used inscription on ancient bronzes and stone tablets to collate "JinShu". Third, he made historical facts criticism. Fourth, he determined and rectified the error. Fifth, he kept some knotty in reserve.Part six; we rectified some error in "JinShuJiaoZhu".In a word, "JinShuJiaoZhu" is one valuable detail annotation work, and Wu Shijian have rendered outstanding service for "JinShu".