Yang Shen And "Dan Qian Yu Lu"

Yang shen is a great artist of Ming dynasty. It is recorded in "History of the Ming Dynasty" that yang shen is a person who is most knowledgeable and has most writings in Ming dynasty. His works covered a wide range of subjects, such as history, literature, calligraphy art, folklore, proverb, astronomical calendar, philosophy and music. " Danqian yulu" written by yang shen is a historical recordings of anecdotes, rich in content and including many aspects of his scholarship and it has much common with other books his wrote in content. So the research into "danqian yulu" can be provided us the main idea and mainstream of his thought and scholar. In order to make you have a full understanding about "dan qian yu lu", this article present from four aspects:first part is about his whole life and works, including his family background and difficult life moreover, a conclusion about his works is drawn by author. The second part is about the versions as well as the investigation and differentiation of its books series, among which the reason of naming the book is a issues roused great controversy in academic circle.there exists two thoughts about its reason,one of which is the name is his hope of being left for exile, the other reason lies it bears the meaning of certification and Collating. Through research and analysis, author think these two statements are both reasonable and at the same time, two relevant forms are presented to demonstrate the relation of records. the third part is about its academic value, about which scholar who wrote The Imperial Collection of Four list his record as Zi Radical and Miscellaneous. All the scholars of past dynasties deem his records as representative of the textual criticism of yang shen who is considered as the founder of the textual criticism research of the Ming Dynasty. " yu lu" is completed earliest among these records, so more focus is put on its academic value in this part. Based on its rich content and complicate justification meanwhile several cases and examples are listed for support, objective assessments are given by author in the last part.