The Study Of Du Shu Min Qiu Ji

Qian Zeng's dushuminqiuji is the first illustrating content book in the bibliography area, and it is significant in the documentary part. It also has most important influence today, and it is necessary for everyone who wants to study bibliography well.This article tells the background, goings and editions of dushuminqiuji systematically .This article begins at the living background of Qian Zeng, telling the influence of his family especially his grandfather Qian Qianyi, and also how his friends influenced him. Based on this, we can tell the whole life of Qian Zeng. After this, we can see how Qian Zeng collected good ancient books. It mainly introduced his collecting ideas, features and goings. After the introduction, we can know the background of dushuminqiuji. Then it is turn to know the process, goings and mainly editions of dushuminqiuji. These are the out knowledge of the book. To know it deeply, we should see inside of the book. In order to know it, firstly, we should know how the book departs, and then we can understand the book from 8 aspects, these are the name explanation, distinguish the exact quality of the book, the author introduction, distinguish what it contents, distinguish the right and wrong, distinguish the edition, collecting the goings, and holding the stories. And these parts content the mainly meaning of the book, it is the best way for us to know the book deeply. After the analysis, it is time for us to know all the methods of distinguishing editions. Parts of the methods are original and influence people who study bibliography behind. We can introduce the methods in two parts. First is the writing book. Second is the carving book. For the writing book, we can tell in Five aspects, these are: handwriting, whether it is entire or not, the original edition, the way of copying, and the time of writing. Qian Zeng relied on the methods to distinguish editions. And for the carving books, he relied on the graph, the preface, the place and time of carving, the carver and the proofread. All the ideas were used by people before him, but Qian Zeng arranged them concentrate and used them frequently and he also created some methods to distinguish the editions.After we know all this, we should evaluate the whole book from the following aspects. First, the book determines how to write down the bibliography books and these ways are the basis of distinguishing editions. Second, Qian Zeng defined several distinguishing methods, although they are not so perfect, they are the best at that time. Third, the book record 601 books which are disappeared today, we can know the books from dushuminqiuji. Finally, the book has deeply influenced all the bibliographers since then.