A Study On The Editions Of The Collections Of ZhangHu's Poems

ZhangHu is a poet of individual character after the mid-Tang dynasty in which has many famous poets and plenty of schools of poets. His disposition is delirious, his fate is full of frustrations, but he does not submit. His poems not only have Meng Haoran's consciousness, but Li Taibai's spirit, which have a style of their own. That is to say, they have secluded artistic charm and the vigor of style is powerful. Therefore, he and his poems are attached to importance by the academic circle of Tang poems, but his editions not. So this paper is to study the editions of the collections of ZhangHu's poems and their handing down relations, discusses its topic and discriminates its errors by comparing about ten kinds of editions through investigating the references including the division of chapters, quantity of poems, the order of arrangement, so as to ascertain the source of the editions. The article is divided into three parts: introduction, body and conclusion. In addition, the author provides the readers with an appendix graph of source system of the past dynasty editions. In the introduction, the author summarizes ZhangHu's life story, effect and the current conditions of the pertinent study. Also, he puts forward the reason for the topic. The body part is divided into four parts, treating time as the guiding principle. In this part, the author studies and examines ZhangHu's poems of collections in details. 1. This part studies the collecting and spreading situation of Zhang Hu's poems in Tang dynasty and the Five Dynasty by very limited materials. The author points out that ZhangHu's poems were sorted into collection in Tang dynasty, but the concerned annals and literatures are very deficient. There are several poems of Dun Huang transcription whose words are much different from Song Shu block-printed edition. We would have a restricted view by it and know ZhangHu's poems spread very widely. 2. This part in chief is the edition and publication of the collections of ZhangHu's poems in Song dynasty. Shu block-printed is one of the most important editions in the system, so the writer talks it about comprehensively. Although the one-volume and the three-volume had lost, according to the catalogues, they should have been existed. In the light of many annals, on the base of Ming ZhengDe edition by which imitated Song printed, the writer points out ShuPeng edition should have been existed. 3. In this part, the author explores the publication and transcription of the various editions in Ming dynasty by the division of chapters, quantity of poems, the order of arrangement, and so on. ZhengDe edition and ZhuJing's edition are originated in ShuPeng edition. Bi Maoqian's edition comes from ZhengDe edition. According to Ming transcription One hunderd Tang Poet edition in NanJing library, the writer talks about the originate of Ming printed two-volume edition. Ye Yi's transcription is on the basis of the ShuPeng edition and merges the two-volume one. 4. In this part, the author systematically explores originate and relation of the Qing dynasty editions. Ji's transcription and Xi's publication edition both spring from Ming printed two-volume edition. Gong Xian's publication starts from Shu block-printed edition and Liu Yunfen's is out of Gong Xian's. The complete works of Tang poems edition is stem from Ji's transcription. GuiChi edition takes ZhengDe edition to be a master copy, adding to in term of QuanShi edition. Miao Quansun's transcription was copied from Ming ZhengDe edition. The conclusion compressively summarizes the source system of the collections of Zhang Hu's poems.