A Note On The "Yuyao Family' Literary Works Collection"

The Yu family in Yuyao has always been a famous family of Yuyao.Most prestigious scholars in the city come from Yu family.From Yu Fan of Wu in the Three Kingdoms to Yu Shinan of early Tang dynasty,especially in the 300 years between the Western and Eastern Jin Period and The northern and Southern Dynasties,the Yu family has arisen many learned people and composed 965 volumes works of 62 kinds.The content of these works include classics,history,philosophies,astronomy,calendars,calligraphy,sphragistics and so on.Most of the Yu family's works are lost.The Yuyao City Library's Local Literature Office has collected the works of Yu family and compiles them into the"Yuyao Yu Family's Poem and Essay Collection",which has high literary and historical value.At present,the academic community has done some research on the clan culture and the regional culture of Yu family.But there are little research on Yu family's works.This article researches and discusses the Yu family and the "Yuyao Yu Family's Poem and Essay Collection".It is divided into two parts.The first part consists of three chapters.It discusses the development process,family culture,family works,literary content,creative features and so on.The second part is mainly annotation for the "Yuyao Yu Family's Poem and Essay Collection".And we refer to materials such as "the Three Kingdoms" for comprehensive and detailed collation and sorting.Besides,we make detailed comments on the difficult words,names,allusions,history,quotations and so on.The collation and annotation of "Yuyao Yu Family's Poem and Essay Collection"will help analyze and study the family culture of Yu family and provide a certain degree of convenience for a deeper and comprehensive study of the Yu family.And because most works of the Yu family involves rituals,this article can contribute to the study of the rituals of the Wei,Jin,and the Southern and the Northern Dynasties.