Li Yu Study Three Questions

As a famous writer and theorist of novel and traditional opera in late Ming and initial Qing Dynasty, Li Yu had plenty of company and wrote lots of books. This dissertation aims at adding and correcting something deficiencying to the former study with the newly discovered materials about Li Yu's intercource and writings, in order to find out the attitude and appraisal of contemporary literators toward Li Yu, make clear the development and change of different versions of poetry and prose anthologies of Li Yu.This dissertation includes three topics:The first topic validates that it was Dong Han who firstly slandered Li Yu by making out the headstream relationship among"The Paticular Saying of Na Ru Mountain Moom","The Superfluous Writing of Chun Xiang"and"The Brief View made in San Gang". The editor of"The Paticular Saying of Na Ru Mountain Moom"is Wang Hao in Qing Dynasty ,not Yuan Yuling. The reason why Wang Hao ascribed the slandering words toward Li Yu to Yuan Yuling is because of Wang Hao's confusion. The four poems in the poetry anthology called"Min Li Cao"of Dong Han verify that he had once communicated with Li Yu .His appraisal toward Li Yu is seemly praising but demoting in fact.The second topic winnows the intercource between Li Yu and a dozen or so persons such as Ding Yaokang, enumerates the seven peoms and essays as well as two letters which others wrote to Li Yu or mentioned his track and a missing verse of Li Yu's, which supplements some new stories to the exist research on Li Yu's intercource or draws some new conclusions in the base of judging a number of old materials carefully.The third topic intends to specify the basic features and value of newly found"The First Collection of Li Weng's Innovative Remarks"which hides in the Palace Museum, and reaches some conclusions according to the information offered by this version as follows: Li Yu once indeed has compiled"The First Collection of Li Weng's Innovative Remarks"and"The Second Collection of Li Weng's Innovative Remarks", the subsequent"Collected Edition of Li Weng's Innovative Remarks"was patched up with several writings of Li Yu and changed by the latecomer other than Li Yu.