Li Zhiding And His Achievements In Philology

Li Zhiding(1874-1945),also named Zhentang,who was coming from Nancheng County,Jiangxi Province.When he was young,he drifted around,and went to Taiwan after the Sino-French War.A few years later he went to Beijing,and entered the shogunate.In the seventeenth year of Guangxu(1891),he passed the examination of Ju-ren.In the twenty-three year of Guangxu(1897),He became a magistrate of Chengmai County and Huitong County.Later,he was ordered to lead troops to quell the peasant uprising in Yazhou.After the Revolution of 1911,because of the war in Jiangxi Province,he went to Shanghai with his family in 1922.Later,he was infected with typhoid fever and could not be cured,so he died.As a writer at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China,Li Zhiding has achieved success in many fields such as philology,poetry creation,and poetry studies.He liked to collect books,and was diligent in reconnaissance,published Yiqiu Library Series.He and Zhou Yuliang co-authored “Shu Mu Ju Yao”,and he published “Zeng Ding Cong Shu Ju Yao”with Yang Shoujing.Li Zhiding's personal writings still contain the “Yiqiu Pavilion Poetry”,“Yiqiu Pavilion Ci” and“Yiqiu Pavilion Poetry Comment”.The Study of Li Zhiding's Personality and His Philosophical Achievements can conduct a detailed study of his life experience and trace the source of his philological thoughts,clearly form its background,then explore his research achievements in the field of philology,especially the literature publishing achievements and catalogue studies.Li Zhiding's life experience was very rich,achieved certain achievements in the fields of literary creation and philology.He also had close exchanges with literary scholars and collectors at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.Taking the literature research and literature publication activities of the Qing Dynasty as a reflection,combined with Li Zhiding's personal achievements,it is known that it was deeply influenced by the style of the Qiangjia philology,and it is also quite yearning for the academics of the Qianjia period.The collection of books in the Qing Dynasty and the series of books publishment were directly influenced by Li Zhiding's collection and engraving activities.The “Yiqiu Library Series” edited by Li Zhiding has preserved many precious versions of the Song People's Collection,and its combination of “Bibliography” and “Additional Series” is an irreplaceable important position in the field of bibliography.In the process of engraving books andcompiling catalogues,Li Zhiding also attached great importance to the role of collation.Therefore,his achievements in the field of philology had certain value and could not be ignored.