Sorting Out And Researching The Prefaces And Postscripts Of The Collection Of Poetry And Essays In Zhejiang In The Ming Dynasty

Printing technology was highly developed in the Ming Dynasty,leaving behind a vast number of literary works.This paper mainly aims at sorting out and studying the prefaces and postscripts of the collected works of the literati in Zhejiang area in Ming Dynasty,and from another angle,enters and observes the literati world in Zhejiang area in Ming Dynasty.With the deepening of modern research,prefaces and postscripts play a more and more prominent role in literature interpretation.The author first found Zhejiang literati engaged in literary activities in the Ming Dynasty from historical biography,local chronicles,bibliographic collections of poems and articles,Siku Quanshu and other materials,totaling about 3280 people.In addition to operas and novels,there are still about 260 Zhejiang literati in Ming Dynasty who have collected works,most of which are included in the Si Ku Quan Shu.In the Siku Quanshu series of books,they are mainly concentrated in the Siku Quanshu Catalogue Series and the Siku Quanshu Forbidden Series.Due to the versatile nature of the literati themselves,they used running script or cursive script in many prefaces and postscripts,which made them not easy to learn and might lead to omissions.In this paper,the prefaces and postscripts of calligraphy were not selected,and some prefaces and postscripts that were illegible due to their age and illegibility were removed,from which the most important poems of 51 people were selected and their prefaces and postscripts were extracted as the main reference materials.In addition to the introduction and conclusion,this paper is divided into four chapters,and the last chapter is discussed.The first chapter mainly tells us that we have different views on being an official.