| In the academic history of the Songs of the South, the academic study on the onesof Song dynasty undoubtedly takes on flourishing vigor as never before. According torecords on History of the Song Dynasty, Zhizhai shulujieti(Chen Zhen Sun’sCatalogic Book),Junzai Dushuzhi (Junzai Reader List), there were16poets dedicatedto studying songs of Chu, amounting to26volumes in total. Unlike the ubiquitoushand-copied books prior to Song dynasty, the Songs of the South were circulated mainlyin printed books. According to records on Five Categories of Booklists of the Songs ofSouth(Chuci Shumu Wuzhong) by Jiang Liangfu, Five Categories of Booklists of theSongs of South Sequel and Catalogic Book of The Songs of the South by CuiFuzhang, Catalogic Books of the Songs of the South by Rao Zongyi, there were26songs of the South, among which,13song collections have been submitted forpublication. With one more collection entitled Sentences and Phrases in the Songs ofthe South, engraved by people in the song dynasty, the total volume reached up to14,accounting for half of the collections in song dynasty. The ubiquity of engraved songsof the South is inseparable from its prevailing trend in the industry. In addition, theengraving techniques played an essential role in the process of circulation, preservationas well as the thriving its industry. The Paper discusses the issues regarding the Songsof the South in the context of the engraving sector in Song dynasty from the followingaspects.For a start, the Paper is to be clear on the profile (general information) of itsengraving in song dynasty, with an existing finding that in total17songs of the Southwere engraved in Song dynasty including traditional notes to collection, phoneticnotation, textual verification, Nisao(imitation of Quyuan’s Lisao). Besides, a newcritical works named Yisao came into being. The Paper discusses the graving scatteredrespectively in Fujian province, Jiangxi province, Zhejiang Province, Hunan Province,Sichuan Province and Jiangsu Province in terms of its undertakers, proofreaders, carveworkers and locations with a general finding that the geographic locations of the Songsof the South, marked respectively in the Regional Chart of Engraving in the SothernSong Dynasty, were scattered in8out of15Lu (an equivalent of “province”),accounting for more than50%. In addition, the author, turning to the grave workers,verified that the graving, out of two of the Songs of the South Commentary, wasrespectively accomplished from1190to1194(Shaoxi, the tile of emperor Guangzong’s reign of the Southern Song Dynasty) in Hangzhou and1217(the last title of emperorNingzong’s reign of the Southern Song Dynasty) in Xin Guojun-an administrativeregion of Song dynasty, being conducive to our dedication to the study on the Songs ofthe South, based on a better returning and reconstructing process to the originalcondition of the past graving locations of the Songs of the South.In the second place, the Paper is to conduct an analysis on the significance of thecirculations of the Songs of the South; firstly, the Songs of the South in Han dynastywere mainly in the center and vassal state while half of the Lu (provinces) was coveredin the graving of the Song dynasty’s songs, The governments at all levels ranging fromthe central departments like Directorate of Imperial Academy (Guo Zijian) to the localofficial sections of book graving such as Xian Zhai and Jun Zhai etc, which indicatesthat through the graving the Songs of the South (Song dynasty) are not only undergoinga nation-wide popularity, but it also penetrates into the central and local governments atall levels. Secondly, as a kind of cultural activity, the book engraving has attractedpersonnel from all walks of life, including the authors, undertakers,proofreaders(scholars),grave workers, to join in, which eventually popularize thereadership classes of the Songs of the South. Additionally, the graving of Songs of theSouth is also beneficial to its script ubiquity between the lecturers and the intellectualsso as to nurture the talents in this field such as Huang Zhu, Fu Jingren. Thirdly, theauthor, deploying the theoretical essence out of the western books of history, is to drawout the Circulation Model Illustration of the Songs of the South, on which, allparticipants including the author, undertakers, grave workers, study, readers, getinvolved in the process, playing a positive role in our further and deeper study on howand what the graving has brought about effectively the circulation of the Songs of theSouth.In the third place, the Paper discusses the literature significance of the gravingbooks of the Songs of the South. Firstly, a multitude of variants were retained in theSongs of the South in song dynasty, based on which, the author commenced toundertake the study on the truth of the preserved song collections in the variants beforethe song dynasty as well as its ubiquity. Secondly, it touches upon the significance thatsongs of song dynasty has made to the Chuci-ology (branch of the Songs of the South)which is mainly manifested in the fact that the scholars of Chuci in song dynasty usedthe engraving copy of the Songs of the South to perform the proofreading on the books.In addition to that, the scholars even utilized the engraving copy as the master one, to the benefit of the standardization or unification of characters and minimizing theoccurrence of frequent and repeated variant characters, for the graving (or reproduction)of the Songs of the South... |
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