The Yellow Legal Zhiyan Preliminary

Huang Lu Zhi Yuan, a collection of Huang Ting-jian's seven syllable poems, was edited in Ming dynasty and printed in Qing Dynasty. Duruing Wang Li time in the Ming dynasty, Huang Chun-ru, a descendant of Hunag Ting-jian, asked his fellow villager Huang Zhong to edit this book for the purpose of carrying Huang Ting-Jian's poetry law forward. 160 Huang Ting-Jian's seven syllable poems were slected, parted into 10 volumes according to his experience serving as an official. But it was not published until Wan Cheng-feng engraved and spread it in the Jiaqing period of the Qing dynasty. This anthology is valuable on research because it provides much precious material for distinguishing the differences of editions of Huang's poems, reserching the origins and development of editions of Huang's poems, restoring Huang's poems to their original features, exporing the receiving history of Huang's poems and so on.