Annotation Of Analytical Dictionary Of Characters And Textual Criticism Of Duan Yucai

Annotation of Analytical Dictionary of Characters has traditionallybeen regarded as a classic of the Chinese Philology、Phonology andExegetics, and Duan devoted his lifetime effort in it, and it is also thespecific expression of Duan’s profound academic attainments. It is alsothe must-see bibliography consulted by other scholars’ research toAnalytical Dictionary of Characters. Duan’s such academic achievementsis closely connected with his good family history, the simple study styleof the era, the firm apprentice experience, ups and downs of official way,extensive academic exchanges. Besides the Annotation of AnalyticalDictionary of Characters, He also left behind a fruitful outcome of thewritings.Duan is an important representative of collation school of Qingdynasty. In the process of writing Annotation of Analytical Dictionary ofCharacters,he cited and corrected some words,such as the wrongwords, the surplus words, the missing words, and the inverted words, andthe repeated words, and some handwriting words which is mixed into text,these examples are also concrete expressions of his applying textualmethods in collation by the book itself, the collation by otherauthoritative’ works, and the collation by one’s own opinion. In thecollation work, Duan took the variant as the main subject, and focused onthe induction and conclusion of the causes of mistakes, and quoted a large number of ancient books and inscriptions information to ensure thequality of its collation practice. In addition, he applied system check toAnalytical Dictionary of Characters collation work, which give full playto the function of system check collation. Therefore, Duan corrected allthe mistakes, deleted all the surplus words, filled all the missing words,arranged all the inverted words, which swept the print left on theAnalytical Dictionary of Characters in history, and gave a real truth ofthe book to the people, and also is helpful to the heritage anddevelopment of the work. Although there is some defects in Duan’scollation work, the advantages outweighed the disadvantages, he hasmade a great contribution to the development of textual criticism, and itis also because his accurate and tight textual criticism proposition andtheory, which plays an important role in developing the textual criticism.