A Study On Edition Source Of Sima Guang’s Collection Of Essays

Sima Guang is a famous politician and historian in the Northern Song Dynasty. Currently, there is a large amount of research achievements about the Comprehensive Mirror for aid in Government in academic field; conversely, related poetry anthology is rare. This paper mainly focus on the study of inscription and private copies on Sima Guang’s poetry anthology in The Song, Ming and Qing Dynasty. The poetry anthology primarily consist of 80 volumes of corpus system,161 volumes of system and 80 volumes of<Chuan Jia Ji> system, the name of system, typesetting sequence as well as the content are therefore also different. In this essay, the sorted editions of Sima Guang’s works are listed as followings:1. photoprint editon of<Si Bu Cong Kan> 2.the edition of<Zeng Guang Sima Wen QuanJi> carved in qizhou at the end of The Southern Song Dynasty 3. the transcript of< Sima Tai Shi Wen Guo Wen Zheng Gong Chuan Jia Ji> in The Ming Dynasty 4.the edition of< Sima Tai Shi Wen Guo Wen Zheng Gong Chuan Jia Ji> in the middle time of The Ming Dynasty 5.the edition of< Sima Tai Shi Wen Guo Wen Zheng Gong Chuan Jia Ji> from Sima Zhi in the 15th wanli year of The Ming Dynasty 6.the edition of< Si Ma Wen Gong Wen Ji> carved by Wu Shiliang in Xia county from the year of 7th Tianqi to 1st Yuanzhen,The Ming Dynasty 7.the edition of 31 volumes of<Si Ma Wen Zheng Gong Ji Lue> and 7 volumes of<poetry anthology> carved by Yu Wenfeng in Jiangxi in the year of 18th Jiajing,The Ming Dynasty 8.the transcript of<Si Ma Wen Gong Chuan Jia Ji> collected in Peking University in The Qing Dynasty 9.the edition of<Chuan Jia Ji> in<Si Ku Quan Shu> 10.the edition of<Si Ma Wen Zheng Gong Chuan Jia Ji> from Mrs Chen in Pei Yuantang. Besides that, researches about carvings, transcripts, spreads, and content orders are also done. Notably, some important editions are collated and form a collate note through collating two and ten volumes of content and main body for each editions, respectively. The relationships and origins between different editions on Sima Guang’s works are founded after reading these prefaces and collations. By this method, readers can get more information about edition spreads, discriminate between good and bad editions and offer some references for the further collection. It can be concluded by collating that more errors exist in the works of The Song Dynasty but with high collation value. Sima’s work is much better among the collections of The Ming Dynasty because it corrects some errors occurring in the middle time of The Ming Dynasty, and makes notes for different versions in the same parts. Although more variant characters exist, it can make up missing parts in other works. The old editions in The Qing Dynasty are rather perfect with less errors and more lost works. some literal errors also exist in the collection of<Ru Zang> and quite a number of people adopt this wrong edition, instead, the edition of<Quan Song Shi> with less literal errors correct errors based on the old editions and<Si Ku>.