Investigation Of Editions About ChenyangYueshu Before Qing Dynasty

YueShu, 200 volumes, written by ChenYang in Northern Song Dynasty, Dedicated to the court in the first year of Jian Zhong Jing Guo when HuiZong was in charge(Year 1101/(A.D. 1,101). The print and publish edition appeared for the first time during the years of QingYuan in Southern Song Dynasty. Re-block-printed edition, mended edition, re-mended edition, copy edition and the like in succession appeared in the following Dynasty such as Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, and Qing Dynasty. This article mainly does elementary research and study about the editions before Qing Dynasty of YueShu and their state. Firstly, it found out there existed ten categories editions of YueShu at least on the base of collection, pectination, analysis to the editions and their conditions of YueShu that had seen in the catalog bookmaking in past dynasties. Secondly, according to the information offered by the catalog bookmaking, six kinds of good editions was finally chosen as the primary objects by investigating the editions collected in the National Library, in the Chinese Academy of Art Library, in the NanJing Library, and in the other regional libraries on the internet in China along with the Japanese National Diet Library online. During the course of describing the situations of the six good editions, combining correlative data in the catalog bookmaking, seeking the relations between the editions, the most integrated and believable one that could be supplied for its noumenon study was finally fixed on the edition, that is re-mended edition of Ming Dynasty in FuZhou Road Confucianism block-printed edition belonged to Chinese Academy of Art Library, and its asking number is YuanZhiZheng 7year.