| The annotate of Fu of the routine is one of the earliest general cyclopedia which written by the style of Fu, which was succeeded at the initial stage of Northern Sung. Wu shu, the author, was concerned with compiling Works for emperor TaiPingGuangJi, WenYuanYingHua, etc.All through the ages there is no lack of high opinion for the writing, which consider its quotation mostly "gather from the original", "precision, assuredness and worshipful". It is common occurrence too that the composing and articles has pursued emendation and collection according it since Qing dynasty. However, by scrupulo-us analysis and investigation toward the original work and correlative literatures, we may draw a conclusion that most of its quotation were copied word by word from Works for emperor, so it followed many latter's error inevitably, we can find some evident wrong contents due to careless excerption indeed. Yet as a result of long-term incorrectly relay an erroneous information, plenty of people understood The annotate of Fu of the routine was achieved independently by Wu shu, which often induce warp or mistake in the appraisement and utilization. Chapter one distinguished the fact that the quotation of The annotate of Fu of the routine basically came from Works for emperor by several aspect of proofs as the caption and annotation high coincided with the correspond parts of Works for emperor, errors made by completely copy and incautious excerption etc, which provided credible base for evaluating its philological value comprehensively and appropriately, making use of it more rationally.Nevertheless, actually in The annotate of Fu of the routine there are some lost works of ancient books before Sung which could hardly find in the other general cyclopedia and quotations quite different to Works for emperor which should be used for collation. Research into the derivation and cause of formation, not only conduce to clarify the process of accomplishment of the composing, but also be likely to conclude the essential appearance of Works for emperor when it were just achieved. Chapter two put forward judgement on the basis of a mass of inside evidence, namely which the composing depended on is a "final version" of Works for emperor which was different to the edition be handed down from Sung. Although the "final version" was lost for a long time, there is still some clew may supply for contrasting to the modem edition.The articles that studying or discussing The annotate of Fu of the routine were not exiguity, but some omitted examining, some echoed what other says, anyhow, could not satisfy us. And there are a good few points may be deliberated when the composing was used in emendation and collection, such as missing collect or losing collate its quotation, didn't adopt reliable edition. Based on keeping track of the similarities and differences of The annotate of Fu of the routine and Works for emperor along with the reason, Chapter three expatiated how to utilize its philological merits sufficiently and rationally via umpty example. |
