Research On Editing Thoughts In Tang Dynasty

The editing activity in our country has a long history. It is nearly thirty years since the editing theory was treated as a special scholarship,and taken into self-concious research.In the past three decades, the fruit of editing research is plentiful.At the same time, the science system of editing becomes more and more improved.Nevertheless,compared with those rather mature subjects,the research on subject thoughts of editing is far from enough,not to mention synthesis study about editing thoughts for a certain period,which becomes a big obstacle to further development of the subject.Well,the Tang Dynasty is a very important period in the feudal society in our country.It has an extensive and profound influence both on the Chinese and the world culture procedure.As a united feudal regime,the Tang Dynasty’s economy,politics and culture has reached an unexampled development during its rule for nearly three centuries.The edting activity is an essential part for the culture undertakings.Many excellent artifacts based on the edting activities are ingored symbols for the prosperity of the editing cause in Tang Dynasty.As a result, the thesis takes the editing thoughts which guides the editing activities of Tang Dynasty as the research object,in order to get the overall appearances of it.Books in Tang Dynasty are divided into four sorts:confucian classics;history; philosophical writings and miscellaneous works.Different kinds of books have dissimiliar editing methods,purposes and subjects when editing activity is still not independent from creation.Under this train of thought,the thesis is divided into seven parts:Introduction;the general situation of editing activities in Tang Dynasty;editing thoughts of confucian classics in Tang Dynasty;editing thougts of history in Tang Dynasty;editing thoughts of general cyclopedia and bodhisattva-dharma in Tang Dynasty;editing thoughts of separate collections and general collections in Tang Dynasty;summary.The main contents for each part are as follows:Introduction.Editing thought is a very important part for editing subject, and editing thoughts in Tang Dynasty is a part for further research of editing history.The author mainly analysis the significance of the research,describes and values the basic situation of the related research at the moment,points out the research target and discusses the specific meanings of both editing activity and editing thought.What’s more,this part also establishes classification,colligation,combination of similarity and personality,typification as the concrete research methods. Some difficulties such as material collecting,variable research anglepoint of view etc,are also mentioned.Chapter one:the source of editing thoughts-general situation of editing activites in Tang Dynasty.Editing thoughts guide the editing activities,and the editing activites are the reflection of thoughts.All the action that are related to the editing activities reflects the editing thoughts to some extent.This chapter begins with the brife introduction of politics and economics situation in Tang Dynasty,then dewells on the culture environment specificly.Because culture goes very closely with editing activity. Imperial Examination System and education system in Tang Dynasty make the culture prospers deeply.Meanwhile,the free culture policy which is advocated by the exploit class all the time provides an ideal stage for editing activity.In addition,governments of all level and individuals collect,reserve and regulate books never judges.The invention and use of block printing promotes the growth of editing quality. All in all, the government of Tang Dynasty values editing activity,and there are innoventions and great editors emerges in endlessly,which guarantee the editing thoughts to be abundant.Chapter two:the editing thoughts of confucian classics in Tang Dynasty-from the pursuit of reunification to values the argumentation.There are great differences of the confucian classics’ editing thoughts between the early and later Tang Dynasty, since the confucian’s thoughts has achieves important change and development. In the early Tang Dynasty, the country is united. Both the monarch and his subjects have the same goals to make the politics honest and clean.Nearly four centuries’ disruption before the Sui and Tang Dynasty makes the study of confucian classics variable. Editors as Kong Yingda, who are familiar with both the south and the north culture, makes a mainstream for the united regime. At the same time, the Imperial Examination has its standard. In this conditon,<Wu Jing Zheng Yi>sets the idee that choose one superb notion to be the only acceptable, which realises its original intention of editing sucessfully.After the rebellion of An and Shi, the whole situation of Tang Dynasty drops rapidly. Scholars of confucian classics such as Lu Chun, abandons critical interpretation of ancient texts, and turn to argumentation.They regulates several important classics on Chun Qiu, base on the true editing attitude and useful aims. Their efforts also drives improvements of other kinds of confucian classics.Chapter three:the editing thoughts of history in Tang Dynasty base on "shi". "Shi" has two very important meanings in Chinese:true and useful. The editing of history reaches great progess in Tang Dynasty. We have all together 24 authorized histories in our country, one third of which are edited in Tang. All the history editing in Tang Dynasty are guided by two ideas:record the truth and use for the politics. Recording the truth is a great tradition in history editing in China, which gains very good sucession and development both in practical and theoretical fields. The official edits many histories, and they put great importance to the function of history on politics.Histories of former dynasties,<Jinshu>, records of family pedigree,<ZhenGuan Zhengyao>,<Tong Dian>, all arrange materials and forms the frameworks according to the use of politics. Liu Zhiji is a very famous historian in the middle Tang Dynasty, whose work<Shi Tong> expresses his editing thoughts on history centralizedly.<Shi Tong> is regarded as "the first work for classical editing".Chapter four:editing thoughts of general cyclopedia and bodhisattva-dharma in Tang Dynasty. The status of general cyclopedia in Tang Dynasty improves greatly:from a part of the Eclectics to a separate one in the philosophical writings. On the whole, general cyclopedia have clear editing aims, pursuits breakthrough in format guideline, are particular about the width and simplification on material choice. Confucianism is of great significance in general cyclopedia editing, which represents on the follows:plenty of Confucian works are chosen; confucian tradition about teaching and governig by civilians are valued; even the set and arrangement of classification are affected by the confucian ideas. Buddhism in Tang Dynasty is in full flourish. activities about translate, sort and annotate are frequently. Xuan Zang is an eminant monk, whose editing thoughts "obey the original text; change for the masses and new culture" are widely honored.Chapter five:editing thoughts of separate collections and general collections in Tang Dynasty. Literature has a very special place and plays a very essential role in Tang Dynasty. We can even consider it’s a society of literature. Though they are both collection of articles, the author in this chapter chooses to expound the editing thoughts of separate collections and general collections exclusively, because they two have different editing aims and standards. The editing course of separate collections flurishes with the minds of assertation, which can also be recognised in material choice and editing methods. Bai Juyi and Liu Yuxi are two famous editors in Tang Dynasty, who also pay much attention to the reservation,spread and hand down to generations of works. The poems of Tang Dynasty edited by edtiors in Tang Dynasty are the outstanding representitive of general collection. They are editor-centralised, whether to express editor’s art pursuit or literary use of confucianism during editing. Both the two aspects are ways to express aspirations, as well as different editing thoughts.Chapter six:summary. The author summons up the characteristics of the editing thoughts in Tang Dynasty brifely on the basis of affirming its achievements.