The Transmission Of Songs’ Literariness In The Notes On Poets And Poetry Of Song

For thousands of years, there are verity transmission-forms of Songs in every dynasty of China. The studies of Songs are in different points of the scholars. With the development of the human beings’consciousness, singly studying Songs with the Confucian classics theory had been changed in Song Dynasty. It was the time that the study Confucian classics of Songs and non-Confucian classics of Songs were facing division. On the one hand, scholars of Song Dynasty pushed the study Confucian classics of Songs up to an unprecedented altitude; on the other hand, the scholars had realized the important value and the significance of Songs’literariness. Only to analysis and transmit Songs in the morality and justice way was really further beyond enough. What should be more affirmed is the value and significance of Songs’literary creation. So begin with the literariness, people will be more understand Songs in a comprehensive way.This article extracted out of all the related entries about Songs, and then classified the whole series of entries. Because of this particular literature form of’the Notes on poets and poetry’, this paper mainly discussing the Authoritativeness, Interest, and Knowledge of The Songs in the Notes on poets and poetry of Song. And, in the part of the Knowledge of The Songs contains the study Confucian classics of Songs such as words, plant-naming and so on. So both the studies of Confucian classics of Songs and non-Confucian classics of Songs will be seen in this dissertation.’The whole series of the Notes on poets and poetry of Song’(Wen-zhi Wu, Jiangsu Chinese Classics Publishing House,1998) ten volumes includes565persons’notes on poets and poetry of Song, and related to entries about Songs containing325individuals of Song, nearly more than5,000entries. The total number of the ten volumes is7,308,000words, which referring to Songs is exceeding1,000,000words. Incompletely account the words being extracted out of the ten volumes is629,000.