Culture History Of Books:Studies On The Writings Of Shuo Wen In Qing Dynasty

To the Qing Dynasty, the study of Xu Shen’s Shuo Wen Jie Zi was prospered. More than four hundred scholars participated in the study of this book and more than nine hundred writings were composed. Not only Shuo Wen is regarded as the first book, Xu Shen’s status was also being promoted rapidly. In the 5th year of Jiaqing period, RuanYuan established "Gu Jing jing she " at the foot of GU Shan, worship Xu Shen and Zheng Xuan at the same time. What’s more, Chen Shan, Ren Shaolin, Yu Yue and Wang Mingluan etc. were asked for the worship of Confucian Temple one after another form them on. Although frustrated time by time, being enshrined eventually in the 2th Guangxu period. In fact, this kind of ritual behavior was first emerged form Gui Fu. In the 44th year of Qianlong period, Gui Fu, with the help of Luo Ping, made a map of the pedigree of Shuo Wen. List Xu Shen at the first place, and after with Jiang Shi, Yan Zhitui, Li Yangbing, Xu Xuan, Xu Kai, Zhang You and Wu Qiuyan, to suggest the long history of the pedigree of Shuo Wen which was without endless. In order to rectification of the name of "Shuo Wen Xue ", which at its very beginning. Hui Dong, who was not known for the study of Shuo Wen originally. But as the founder of the Han school of classical philology, his Hui shi du Shuo Wen Ji was widely copied by the scholar from Wu Xian and other place. The book of Shuo Wen fashion all over the country in a short time was contributed by the guidance of paragon and borrowing/copying between the groups undoubtedly. Since the period of Dao Guang and Xian Feng, with the rapidly declined of the Han school of classical Philology, the pedigree of "Shuo Wen Xue" was also faced the crisis. Chen Li, Wang Yun, etc. Call for enlightenment of Shuo Wen, therefore, a list of writings for the enlightenment of the Shuo Wen emerges as the times require. In order to memorize, this works reference to the traditional children enlightenment books in the form, almost three or seven words, to make the five hundred and forty radicals of Shuo Wen for rhyme. Feng Guifen, Zhang Taiyan and other famous scholars were all involved. At the same time, Xu Lian as the represent was beginning to interest in arranging the literature of "Xu Xue". To the late Qing dynasty, the person engaged in this work almost one by one. Cataloguing, collection and research, annotation or assembly, and end with Ding Fubao’s Etymological dictionary of Shuo Wen Jie Zi. In order to break the limited visual threshold of the past, this paper is based on the investigation of all writings of Shuo wen,and the perspective of" culture history of books "will be used to review the whole literature of Shuo Wen in Qing Dynasty.