The Use Of Literature In HanShu Yan Shigu's Note

Yan Shigu is born in a glorious family with literacy deeply. As is a secretary supervisor of government and in support of Prince Cheng Qian ,he can be contacted national collection of the Tang Dynasty'literature and finish the famous HanShu with his note in the extremely favorable terms. His note ,which involved in the injection of one of the more than 100 species and more than 40 previous thesis, covering from the orthodox history books to coins, inscriptions, rock carvings, and other various information, congregated documents before the great Tang Survey. Which consists of the previous generation about HanShu, catalog of the Sui and Tang Dynasties in the Annals of literature, not in the Annals of documentary and directory of the names of persons without examination, other forms of literature.HanShu Yanshigu's Note, which collected before the Tang Dynasty more than 20 scholars, can be described as HanShu in the history of the synthesizer works. As soon as it is highly authoritative, it led directly to the other HanShu Note die out rapidly, in turn, caused a collection of former HanShu Note the most important source of high conservation value of literature. Not only preserved the "Note 23" referred by HanShu Chat ,but it also contained a small number of note such as Qigong, Yan YuQin.In addition to involving their predecessors. HanShu, Yan's Note also cited as collection of four more than 100 kinds of literature, and so many famous thesis, and most of them found in the catalog of literature in SuiShu, Old Tang Shu and New Tang Shu, which can be linked to specific book and its contents, which could examine the Sui Dynasty and early Tang Dynasty literature and the use of the citation way.Yan also found some books note was not found in the Annals directory and the names of the books without examination. Some of the division witnessed, and others quoted from other books. Although in small quantities, they are not only useful complement to the Annals directory, but also important evidence for study the preservation of these documents.In addition, Yan's note also made reference to inscriptions, coins and other physical documentation, including even the " horizontal book" from Western Regions.Although Yan paid attention absorbing previous writings, under the influence of his grandfather Yan Zhitui,Yan Shigu's Note respected ancient classic and argue against near time viewpoints such as Yao Cha, Bao Kai, Xiao Gai, Chu Quan.The attitude is reflected on his literature of choice in annotating HanShu . So from this point of view, Yan's note is not a simple collection of other HanShu Note merits , but an Yan Shigu personal academic works with obvious academic inclinations. It is this inclinations that he is distinguished from other contemporary history Note scholars.Yan Shigu's Note is also paying particular attention to collation of a variety of the HanShu handwritings. He corrected the mistakes in the then popular handwritings refer to reliable text. The collation of the academic sense at the time it was rare. This work has also enabled the HanShu have formed an authoritative text in the handwriting era and removed the chaotic state version.The literature referred by Yan's Note have also greatly improved the HanShu in the historical data. It makes that HanShu is no longer difficult to understand from then on and is valuable to literature, linguistics and philology.Yan's Note is not only a decisive significance for the HanShu Study,but has also made great contributions to the entire Ancient China academic. In the numerous documents it contains, the majority had been died out, the minority can be found only inYan's Note. There are also many gaps wrong even if some have been handed down perfectly. Therefore, Yan's Note has an important value for restoring ancient books before the Tang Dynasty.