A Study Of Liu Shiheng's Engraving Books

Liu Shiheng was famous bibliophile,publisher and industrialist, at the end of the Qing.He was born in courtiers family, who loved classics history when he was young, and he established industries when he was officer. After the Xinhai Revolution, he fled to Shanghai by the Qing remnant. On the one hand, he specialized in collection of antiquities, and stocked a lot. He focused on collecting the old engraving of Song and Yuan, writings, stone inscriptions and opera literature. And it is very fruitful. On the other hand, Liu Shiheng was also committed to ancient inscribed, inscribed a number of books, and achieved lots of results. Liu Shiheng has made an outstanding contribution in the preservation of ancient books, literature heritage, promote the Chinese culture. His representative works "Nuan Hong Rome" Drama is representative of a unique engraved book achievement.Based on the Liu Shiheng and his deeds, the paper will discuss the achievements and features of engraving, as a focus of the "Nuan Hong Rome" Drama. The first part will introduce Liu Shiheng. It is summarized from four aspects of family background,biographies, colleating and writing.The second part is the research of Liu Shiheng's engraving. It will be discussed according to the study of Liu Shiheng's engraving, and the purpose of engraving is a continuation of the antiquated knowledge and the benefits of the future generations; It has a scale of engraved books and diverse category, including Song and Yuan's outdated engraving, script, transcript, original carving copy; The engraving books have inscriptions, presentation, content. And it is informative.The third part is the transcription and collation of the Legend of the Red Chamber. Liu Shiheng's "Nuan Hong Rome" Drama is focus on legend and learn widely from others' strong points. The book published beautiful illustrations, the unique point is the publication of works and opern. Collation's feature is the version with consideration, proofreading, collation with the help of famous expert. The content of collation is included in note, foreword or headnotes.The forth part is the academic value and achievement of "Nuan Hong Rome" Drama. "Nuan Hong Rome" Drama leads to the atmosphere of the collation of drama literature in Republic of China. It has high academic value and contributes to the study of drama and literature.