Study On The Summaries And Its Theory Criticism About Song And Yuan Dynasty’s Literature Criticism Books From Catalogue Of The Imperial Collection Of Four

The Catalogue of the Imperial Collection of Four has substantial content and involves many aspects.There are one hundred and forty-nine summaries on literature criticism books in the fourth of four sections in traditional Chinese bibliographic classification from Catalogue of the Imperial Collection of Four,sixty-eight of them are about Song and Yuan Dynasty’s literature criticism books which are valuable.The research is of great significance.There are lots of useful information in those summaries including short biography of the writers,main point of a book and the criticism about the book and the writers.Therefore,these summaries have reference value on textual researching and criticism.But on the other hand,some academic criticism in Catalogue of the Imperial Collection of Four need to be discussed again.There are many mistakes in the Catalogue of the Imperial Collection of Four because of the rush of time and lacking of reference.So,the textual and critical information in these summaries about Song and Yuan Dynasty’s literature criticism books from Catalogue of the Imperial Collection of Four still need to be studied.Although there are some research findings,There is still room for further research.The Catalogue of the Imperial Collection of Four was examined by Qian Long emperor.Ji Yun made a few small corrections.Weng Fanggang and others wrote the first draft.So,summaries about Song and Yuan Dynasty’s literature criticism books from Catalogue of the Imperial Collection of Four has a close relationship with them all.The general catalogue is the political achievement of Qianlong’s practice of his Confucian political philosophy and the promotion of cultural rule.Its purpose of maintaining rule and canonization is obvious.Ji Yun and others compiled the Imperial Collection of Four and the Catalogue of the Imperial Collection of Four according to the will of Qianlong.from the various text levels of summaries about Song and Yuan Dynasty’s literature criticism books from Catalogue of the Imperial Collection of Four,these summaries have gone through a process from coarse to fine.The general catalogue is a comprehensive bibliographic achievement.It actively draws lessons from the relevant records of poetry and literary criticism works in the Song and Yuan Dynasties in the catalogue of historical books of the previous generation,with a rigorous attitude,broad vision and rich information.It is worth noting that many of the views of the general catalogue on the criticism of poetry and literary criticism did not come into being when the works were explained.Ji Yun and others had targeted criticism practice in the early stage,so it is meaningful to trace the source of the relevant critical views.By comparing summaries about Song and Yuan Dynasty’s literature criticism books from Catalogue of the Imperial Collection of Four and Ying Kui Lu Sui error correction written by Ji Yun,from the perspective of creation time,content and author,it is found that they have many similarities in critical positions,methods and views.It can be basically judged that these summaries are closely related to Ji Yun’s book Ying Kui Lu Sui error correction.In terms of edition,according to the edition information in the summaries about Song and Yuan Dynasty’s literature criticism books from Catalogue of the Imperial Collection of Four,it can be seen that Ji Yun and others had a broad vision of collecting Song and Yuan Dynasty’s literature criticism books during the compilation of Imperial Collection of Four,which should be affirmed.But on the whole,Qianlong organized the compilation of Imperial Collection of Four,includingliterature criticism books in the Song and Yuan Dynasties.It not only has the merit of searching and visiting suicide notes and preserving documents,but also has the faults of insufficient version vision and bad version.Through microscopic analysis,we can find that the version information described in the summary is improper and inaccurate.For example,the analysis of Poetic talk of Tang Dynasty’summary includes both the contribution of the author and the wrong understanding of the version.The Poetic talk of Tang Dynasty should be an excerpt of the chronicle of Tang Dynasty poetry.There are also some inaccuracies in the discrimination of Yin Chuang Za Lu and other books in Catalogue of the Imperial Collection of Four,which need to be examined again.Another feature of the general catalogue is the abundance of cited documents.Compared with the previous bibliographic books,a remarkable feature of the literature citation of the summaries about Song and Yuan Dynasty’s literature criticism books from Catalogue of the Imperial Collection of Four is extensive citation.Throughout the sixty-eight abstracts of poetry and prose reviews in the Song and Yuan Dynasties,the average number of documents cited in a single abstract is nine,which shows that it has a deep awareness of literature citation,a wide range of horizons and a wide range of materials.It is worth noting that the principles of requiring that the citation must indicate the source,emphasizing the official history,the combination of direct citation and indirect citation,and the characteristics of wide comparison and comprehensive reference are all the advantages of the cited documents in the summaries about Song and Yuan Dynasty’s literature criticism books from Catalogue of the Imperial Collection of Four.If we further distinguish the relevant citations,we will find the errors in literature and deficiencies in understanding.The theoretical criticism in the summaries about Song and Yuan Dynasty’s literature criticism books from Catalogue of the Imperial Collection of Four is relatively rich.In terms of stylistic criticism,Catalogue of the Imperial Collection of Four evaluates the content and connotation of poetic works,which shows the view of poetic talk in Catalogue of the Imperial Collection of Four.In addition,Catalogue of the Imperial Collection of Four also explores the origin of style,and discusses the macro view of style,such as the origin of style in the six classics and the dignity and inferiority of style.It emphasized classics and history books,despised ci,the type of classical Chinese poetry,and criticized the absurdity and obscenity of novels.When criticizing parallel prose theory works,Catalogue of the Imperial Collection of Four attaches importance to style,pays attention to parallel prose syntax,and advocates not to follow the predecessors in terms of views and materials.In terms of stylistic genres,Catalogue of the Imperial Collection of Four highly praised Yuanyou literature,paid more attention to Jiangxi Poetic Faction,and did not give high evaluation to Jianghu Poetic Faction and late Tang poetry style.There are also rich literary criticism thoughts in the Catalogue of the Imperial Collection of Four.It mainly includes five aspects.First,the color of official learning is prominent,which belittles the concept of portal,emphasizes the establishment of literary classics,and the thesis should not be weird.The second is to re criticize some literary views.In terms of poetry review,it is emphasized that poetry review works should be carefully evaluated and can not be refuted.In terms of poetic method,Catalogue of the Imperial Collection of Four corrects the wrong understanding of turning over a new leaf.In the aspect of poetry and Taoism,it worships elegance and denounces despicability.At the same time,the Catalogue of the Imperial Collection of Four encourages poetry criticism works to be good at innovation in materials,viewpoints and so on.Third,the summaries about Song and Yuan Dynasty’s literature criticism books also reflects that the Catalogue of the Imperial Collection of Four attaches importance to textual research and literature value.The fourth is the unique perspective of the criticism of Catalogue of the Imperial Collection of Four,which pays attention to the style of poetry and literary criticism,and launches the relevant criticism through a large number of discussions.Fifth,in addition to affirming the value of poetry criticism works in the Song and Yuan Dynasties,it also makes an overall impression evaluation of the shortcomings and disadvantages,holding that the Song Dynasty is well-dressed and the Yuan Dynasty is obscene and vulgar.The Catalogue of the Imperial Collection of Four is a bibliographic work,and the criticism object of the summaries about Song and Yuan Dynasty’s literature criticism books is literary criticism works,so the relevant summaries has a great influence on the research of the history of Chinese literary criticism,poetry and bibliography.The value of the summaries about Song and Yuan Dynasty’s literature criticism books from Catalogue of the Imperial Collection of Four mainly lies in literature,thought,criticism and so on.Its influence is widely related to the history of Chinese ancient literary criticism,the study of poetry,the compilation of dictionaries,the publication of poetry and literary criticism monographs and many other aspects.