Selected Works (six volumes in total) Essence: full annotation and translation of Chinese classics
Wenxuan, also known as Zhaoming Wenxuan, is the earliest extant collection of poems and essays in China presided over by Xiao Tong, Prince Zhaoming of the Southern Liang Dynasty. Since the Han and Wei Dynasties, there have been more and more collections of literati, which are difficult for scholars to read all over. "Wenxuan" is a collection of poems and essays with the essence of selection. It contains 764 pieces of works by 130 writers and several anonymous authors from the Zhou Dynasty down to the Southern Liang Dynasty. According to the genre, it can be divided into Fu, poem, Sao, seven, imperial edict, book, order, teaching, essay (Qiwen), table, calligraphy, Qi, Tanshi, note, play notes, book, move, Xi, question, comment, words, preface, ode There are thirty-eight categories of praise, fu ming, shi lun, shi shu zan, lun, lian zhu, zhen, ming, lei, ai, epigraph, epitaph, line shape, hang wen, and sacrificial inscription, among which fu and poetry are divided into several sub categories according to the subject matter. The works of all kinds are roughly in the chronological order of the authors& lt;br> The selected articles in Wenxuan pay attention to literary talent, and take "things come from meditation, meaning goes to Hanzao" (Xiao Tong's Preface to Wenxuan) as the main artistic standard. It records many works of parallel couplets, and focuses on the main essence of literature in the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties. It is praised as "the value of articles and the source of works" by the General Catalogue of Siku Quanshu. Wenxuan is rich in content and carefully selected. Many famous articles have been handed down to this day relying on Wenxuan, so it has important documentary value. The poetry and prose articles recorded in Wenxuan have become a model for later generations to learn to write and have a profound impact on later generations' literary creation. The literary and cultural thoughts embodied in Wenxuan have many values such as literary criticism, stylistics and rhetoric. As the head of the collection, Wenxuan's compilation style is of exemplary significance to the collection of literature of future generations. Wenxuan has retained a large number of language materials from the pre Tang period, which has important linguistic value. Wenxuan was once a required textbook for the imperial examination scholars, which had the research value of educational history and imperial examination history& amp;nbsp;<br> Wenxuan was originally 30 volumes, and the annotated version of Li Shan in Tang Dynasty was analyzed as 60 volumes. The original text of The Complete Annotations of Chinese Classical Masterpieces, The Complete Translation Series, Selected Works, published this time, is based on the Selected Works of Song Youmao, a book reprinted by Hu Kejia in the Qing Dynasty, which was photocopied by Zhonghua Book Company in 1977. In other editions of the school, each work has an explanation of the title and an introduction to the author, and is annotated and translated in sections to facilitate the reading and understanding of ordinary readers. There are six volumes in the whole book, and every ten volumes are one volume. There is a general catalog in front of the book, and each volume has a title list of sub volumes. At the end of the book, there is an author index of Wenxuan and a title index of Wenxuan arranged in phonetic order, which is convenient for retrieval& lt;br><div><br></div>
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