The Study And Collection On Chen Shunyu’s Lushan Mountain Chronicle

The Lushan Mountain of Jiangxi Jiujiang is a historical and cultural mountain in our country.A comprehensive and systematic record of Lushan Mountain can be traced back to the Lushan Mountain Chronicle of Xining Period in the Northern Song Dynasty.Lushan Mountain Chronicle was written by Chen Shunyu,which was complied on the basis of Liu Huan’s draft.It consists of five volumes and eight contents,with Li Chang and Liu Huan’s prefaces.Although its style cannot compared with general outline of history,it is the first Lushan Mountain chronicle with stylistic rules and layout.Chen’s Chronicle written the north of Lushan at first and then south of the mountain.The author of the book,Chen Shunyu is knowledgeable and talented.His book Lushan Mountain Record Chronicle is high quality and popular.To study Lushan Mountain Chronicle,the first thing we should do is paying more attention on Chen Shunyu’s life,political views,collected works.The background of the book should be considered,such as the development of chronicle in Song Dynasty,the hermit goups,the development of religion in Lushan.Lushan Mountain Chronicle is an important part of Chinese Chronicle.It is one of the few mountain records of the Song Dynasty that have been handed down to our times,and its academic is obvious.Its historical value,religious value,tourism value and so on are self-evident.The above historical and cultural records are also rare reference materials for today’s traditional cultural tourism industry,which emphasizes on tracing the source and identifying the ancestors.Lushan Mountain Chronicle has a high value of literature study.The value of literature studies is embodied in the two aspects of collation and compilation.On the one hand,there are many versions,it can be divided into two major version systems,including three volumes(two volumes of original book)and five volumes.The earliest three volumes of the Records was included in Zhu Yizun’s Xiao Chang Lu Serial Recording,which was collected in the library of Harbin Normal University.The five volumes was collected in Japan Cabinet Library,which are the ancestral copies of all editions of Lushan Mountain Chronicle.From modern times,Lushan Mountain Chronicle was discovered and collected by scholars at home and abroad scholars.However,its textual criticism is not enough for its many shortcomings.Thus,it needs deeper study and textual research.On the other hand,Lushan Mountain Chronicle is short but its content is rich.Through the climbing of the literature,the existence and loss of the cited literature,to explore its original picture.The collection takes the Japanese Cabinet Library’s Lushan Mountain Chronicle as its basic version,the first version is Jishi An Series of Books,the second version is Yuanlu version,the third version is Taisho,the supplement of Wu Zongci’s Lushan Mountain Records as its fourth version,and the fifth version is The Si Ku Quan Shu.In order to ensure the accuracy of the text and the difference between the different versions of the Chinese characters,the collection school using traditional Chinese input.In addition,it also absorbs the achievements of Luo Zhenyu and Wu Zongci to make the arrangement more complete and more systematic.