Research On The Compilation Of An Annotated Bibliography Of Rare Books Collected By Ding Bing

The Qing dynasty was the peak of private collections.There are many famous libraries and pavilions in China.It was a kind of custom for collectors to compile catalogues for their collections.There are three main types of catalogues,including:concise catalogues,collection records,inscription and postscript in Qing dynasty.The compilation of collection records originated in the early Qing dynasty and lasted throughout the Qing dynasty.Many collectors had not only compiled concise catalogues for their collections,but also compiled a collection of books,such as Ding Bing,a famous collector in Hangzhou,Zhejiang province.Based on the books stored in the Baqianjuanlou,Ding Bing compiled the An Annotated Bibliography of Rare Books and Eight Thousand Volumes of Books,etc.Among them,An Annotated Bibliography of Rare Books is the most famous,with high historical value and academic value,which is highly praised by bibliographers and editions scholars.Ding Bing was one of the four great collectors in the late Qing Dynasty,and the number of books was the top of the four great collections.Ding Bing inherited and developed the excellent results of the bibliography of the Qing Dynasty,and wrote An Annotated Bibliography of Rare Books.The book contained2660 ancient books,every book had content,recording the prescript of the original book,author biography,organizing and circulating,collating the mistake of the original book and bibliophile act,etc.Unlike other bibliographies,Ding Bing was mainly based on his biography and book version appreciation,paying special attention to the collection of relevant contents of books,forming his features.His codification is embodied in the Annotated Bibliography of Rare Books.There were also many novels,chessboard and other kinds of books,which showing his inclusive academic attitude and payingmore attention to the academic nature of books.The book also showed the sensitivity of Ding Bing as a collector of books.When compiling the content of the solution,Ding Hong was not only examined the version of the book,but also examined the correctness and circulation of the author,the age of the book,the specific content and others.In addition,Ding Bing attached great importance to the diversity of book versions and searched for different versions of the same book,which has preserved many different versions for the scholars of later generations.It included books written by Zhe jiang scholars,books of proofreading,or books collected by the famous people in Zhe jiang.This is a summary of Zhe jiang culture before the Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty.Ding Bing has devoted all his life to the collection and collation of Zhejiang documents,retaining a large amount of raw materials,which was of great significance to the preservation and circulation of Zhe jiang local documents.There are some unreasonableness in the compilation of this book.The book is divided into four parts:Confucian classics,history,philosophy and literature,but the number of books collected by each department was quite different,and the proportion was seriously unbalanced.There was a difference between the repetition and the third level classification before and after the same volume arrangement.There were many questions about the circulation of books,the contents of books and others,which were directly extracted from others' collection,but Ding Bing did not explain them.In addition,the identification of versions was often problem-solving,and many versions of the problem did not conform to the editions of the editions.These imperfections affected the value of the book collection,and causing misunderstanding to the readers.An Annotated Bibliography of Rare Books was different from the general bibliography,which was devoted to the collection of the rare books.Ding Bing proposed four standards for rare books,which was regarded as concept of rare book of Ding Bing.Ding Bing's concept of rare book was the sublimation of thethought of An Annotated Bibliography of Rare Books,which formed a symbol of the maturity of the concept of good books in the Qing Dynasty.Ding Bing emphasized on the practical value and contemporary consciousness of ancient books influenced the later generations' judgement of rare books.His standard of rare book laid the foundation for the later the theory of rare book,which had a great influence on later generations.