A Research On Tang Poetry Collections In Song Dynasty In Form Of Textual Criticism

This paper,based on block-printed editions of Tang poetry in Song Dynasty,reveals the stage characters of textual criticism of Tang’s collections in Song Dynasty,and studies the evolutionary process and factors of the the stylistic rules and layout in the background of manuscripts changing into block-printed edition.In the early northern Song,people’s main work is to collect poetry and classify them,while later,the activity of annotating Han’s and Du’s collection develops their textual criticism.However,the collation on individual collections develops still slow.The general collection,Wen Yuan YingHua,is existed as collation manuscripts during Northern Song.Collation character and symbol on the existing block-printed edition of Tang poetry,most of which are printed in Southern Song Dynasty,complement each other.The former can be divided into three parts:small character,collation quotation and collation position and the latter includes ink mark and blank,characters cut in intaglio and pattern.The textual criticism of Tang’s poetry not only uses the experience from that of Confucian classics and history books,but also makes changes to adapts to Tang Poetry.And the differences of collation trails in the early and late period disclose the changes of manuscript to block-printed edition.The influence of the external collation normal form,the enhancement of level of collation,and the improvement of variants settling skills makes the Notes on the use independently appear.