Study On Jing Fang In The Succedding Years Of Ming And Qing In Jiangsu And Zhejiang Provinces

The bookshop of religious scriptures (Jing Fang) is a shop where religious works are copied, printed and sold. Shu Fang was originated from the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Ming&Qing Dynasties and headed to its disappearance after that. Though it has retreated from the history, a fabulous religious legacy has been reserved in consequence of its presence.Few researches have been done on Shu Fang, even in books on general development of publication. This paper, therefore, is a tentative and ground-breaking try on some of the important topics related to Shu Fang.The present paper starts with a general introduction on Jing Fang’s development, a detailed analysis of its location and the religious works it sold and published is presented in this part. The second part is more focused on the Jing Fang’s development in the succeeding years of the Ming and Qing dynasties in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces—the place of Jing Fang’s most prosperity at the most flourishing time. The connection between Jing Fang and temples, the publication of Jing Fang&Bao Juan, and the operation of Jing Fang are elaborated in this part. The third part is a systematic summary taken from the perspective of philology. It points out the importance of scholarly researches on Jing Fang from the angles of religion, philology and cultural history.Jing Fang contributed a lot to publication and spread of works on Buddhism, Taoism and folk religion, and it played its own part in the development of Chinese ancient books carving history. This tentative research is meant to throw out a minnow to catch a whale, and it is hoped that more researches and study will be done on this valuable topics.