Study About Yang Dezhou’s Salt Water: Annotations Of Du Fu’s Poetry

There are peaks of the Du Fu’s research, and an endless stream of works on annotates of Du Fu’s poetry. Salt Water:Annotations of Du Fu s Poetry written by Yang Dezhou is hidden in the voluminous works by the time of the late Ming dynasty and early Qing dynasty. How to give an objective evaluation is a work discarding the dross and select the essential in Du Fu’s research. It is based assessment and priority to sort out reference. Through arranging and analyzing, the original Salt Water Annotations of Du Fu’s Poetry will appear, the content of the book will be clear, Investigating the source, analyzing the features of his commentary, then annotates like this could be in their seats, obtaining an appropriate evaluation in the work of research on Du Fu’s poetry.When Yang Dezhou was annotating Du Fu’s poetry, he quoted annotates to collect a distinctive annotate from historical records, geography miscellany, Poetry books, literary representatives in Ming dynasty, his colleges, and even from his family elders. My paper contains some valuable citations, mainly from Ming dynasty. Some of these citations present his ulterior motives which concentrating on understanding Du Fu’s creation mentality and textual research of history, geography, and meibutsu, some of the citations have value on explaining, and some citations are not seen in other annotates, which have highly document value. This annotate contains errors though, such as lots of "Pseudu-Su-Shi’s annotations" were annotated, superficial explains, and some publication errors.