The Analysis Of Collection Of Prosimetric Chantefables Of The Ming Chenghua Era·the Story Of Hua Guansuo's Collating Mistakes

The Story of Hua Guansuo includes the first four articles of Collection of Prosime tric Chantefables of the Ming Chenghua Era.They are The Story of Hua Guansuo's B eing Born and Growing up(The Pre-set),The Story of Hua Guansuo Looked for His Father(The Post-set),The Story of Hua Guansuo's Conquest against Western Sichuan(The Sequel)and The Story of Hua Guansuo's being demoted to Yunnan(The Indi visual Works)and collated only by some Zhu Yixuan.Due to some blurring in its ori ginal,the print fonts are greatly influenced by its cursive script.Thus,there are inevitabl y mistakes in Zhu's collation of the story.The article generalizes and summarizes nearl y hundreds failures in the collation of The Story of Hua Guansuo,including loss of co llation,collation mistakes,collation failures,punctuation abuse,missing characters,redundant characters,false characters,inappropriate proofreading of imcompleted and unknown Chi nese characters,etc.in order to promote the accuracy and readability of the collated st ory.The full text is divided into three parts.Part I: The first chapter is the introduction,which explained the background,the tar get and the significant of the text,and reviewed documents related to our research.Part II: The second chapter to the fourth chapter,is the main content of this paper.The second chapter analized the collation errors,including loss of collation,collation mis takes,collation failures.The third chapter analized the punctuation abuse.And chapter fo ur is character errors,including missing characters,redundant characters,false characters a nd inappropriate proofreading of imcompleted and unknown Chinese characters,etc.Part III:The fifth chapter,include the objective and subjective reason analysis of pr oofreading errores and revelation from this collating and some character rules about T he Ming Dynasty folk works.