| Song Taizong basically completed the national unity during his reign, with the stable socialenvironment and the implementation of his "right text" policy, social cultural has been developed a lot. As amonarch emphasizing on reading and book collection, he attaches great importance to seeking andarrangement of literature and books, so that book collection is vaster than ever before. Also he spared noeffort to arrange and revise literature and made great contributions.By studying the literature which Song Taizong collected for six times, we can have a clearunderstanding of the documents obtained from other regimes and he really tried his best to promote thecollection by receiving, seeking, inheriting and writing literature and books. Also we can make detailstatistics of his book collection. By researching of all these material, we can understand the scale of bookcollection in the times of Song Taizong better than the literature Yiwenzhi in History of Song Dynasty.In the times of Song Taizong, book collection is applied for writing books and revising and printing thebooks inherited, which is helpful to spread books and lay a solid foundation for the prosperity anddevelopment of the Song Dynasty culture.In terms of the construction of the official collection agency, Taizong established a more maturesystem and mechanism, such as building collection agencies, managing the selection and appointment ofofficials and the protection of library books and something like that, which has created the mode for futurereference and has profound impact on construction of collection agencies in the future.In a word, as the emperor emphasizing on culture and education, Taizong has made great contributionson collection, arrangement and protection of books in the Song Dynasty. Implementation of these policiesand measures started the trend of the culture development, and also promoted the development of privatecollections, which has great influence on history of Chinese book collection and publishing. |
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