Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of Yu Fan's Birth The Complete Works of Yu Fan Was Released

As a famous scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, Yu Fan moved to Linping with his parents at the age of four, where he married and started a family, a middle-aged man, and a jinshi, "living in the ordinary for thirty years, not different from his hometown", and authored "Linping Miscellaneous Poems" and other works full of emotions. As a professor at the Research Center for Excavated Documents and Ancient Characters of Fudan University, Wang Shaohua and his team have been grinding a sword for 8 years and compiling and publishing the Complete Works of Yu Fan, which is a systematic presentation of Yu Fan's academic thoughts and written works.

Yesterday, the "200th Anniversary Of Yu Fan's Birth Commemorative Seminar and the "Yu Fan Complete Works" New Book Launch Conference" was held online and offline.

The Complete Works of Yu Fan is by far the most complete and in-depth collection of Yu Fan's writings, which corrects and compensates for the original errors and omissions, which is not only the best commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Yu Fan's birth, but also a successful display of the achievements of the members of the Chinese Hermeneutics Research Society.

As a master of late Qing Dynasty Sinology, Yu Fan (1821.12.25 -1907.2.5) trained many talents such as Zhang Taiyan and Wu Changshuo, which was not only the masterpiece of late Qing Sinology, but also the prelude to the academic boom of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, which played a role in inheriting the inheritance of Sinology. His academic discipline is mainly based on classics, and his subordinate studies, historiography, literature and calligraphy are created, and his achievements are outstanding and his writings are rich. With the academic aim of "applying the classics to the general experience" and the academic orientation of "learning after the ladder beam", he has been lecturing for nearly 40 years, and his bold and questionable, eclectic and inclusive academic style has had an important impact on the modern transformation of traditional scholarship.

Edited by Wang Shaohua and Wang Baohua and published by Jiangsu Phoenix Publishing House, the complete collection of 32 volumes and 9.53 million words is a systematic presentation of Yu Yu's academic thoughts and written works.

"Dedicate a high-quality collation of the "Complete Works of Yu Fan" that has been refined after the transfer." This is the purpose of Wang Shaohua's presidency of sorting out the Complete Works of Yu Fan. In his opinion, the key to sorting out the "Complete Works of Yu Fan" is to try to proofread good words and punctuate sentences without breaking sentences. To this end, with the spirit of craftsmanship and the attitude of excellence, the quality and quantity of the work of the ancient books point school are achieved to the extreme, and the whole process of sorting out the complete works of Yu Fan runs through.

In order to achieve qualitative results, the team worked tirelessly and repeatedly proofread, the two editors-in-chief checked the bottom book again, carefully considered the punctuation, corrected the error, and did not let go of a single flaw, because there were several vacancies in the Japanese name number in the "Toei Poems" and "Tokai Totoshi TaoJi", they specially asked the postdoctoral verification data of Kyoto University to make up for the school record.

So much excellence is "to provide chefs with the best possible ingredients", Wang Shaohua vividly explains the significance of the "Complete Works of Yu Fan". He compares the relevant academic community to a kitchen, in which the ancient book researcher is the chef, responsible for excavating and cooking the taste of various ingredients (ancient books), while the ancient book finisher is the ingredient provider, "Our mission is to ensure that the ingredients are fresh and safe with the spirit of craftsmanship, so that chefs can use this ingredient to make better dishes." ”

Cultivating talents is another important significance of the collation of the "Complete Works of Yu Fan", "The two doctoral students and one master's student I supervised took the study of Yu Fan's works as the topic of the graduation thesis, exercised the ability to sort out ancient books, successfully completed the dissertation, and the collators of each volume also improved the level of ancient books in the revision and improvement of the point school." ”

In addition to the close collaboration of the team members, Wang Shaohua attributed it to the platform of Fudan University, "it is the school that provides ample space and a relaxed atmosphere, without the pressure of quantitative assessment, so that we can sink our hearts to concentrate on the collation of ancient books and engage in unpopular studies." ”

"The so-called unpopular study, that is, to invest extraordinary time and energy into what ordinary people are unwilling or unable to do", during the period of presiding over the publication of the "Complete Works of Yu Fan", Wang Shaohua's "Zhou Li Zhengyi" won the "Tribute to Chinese Studies: The Second Global Chinese Sinology Ceremony" Sinology Achievement Award, and the compilation of "Examination Of Workers' Records" Famous Objects Collection Certificate won the "Fifth China Publishing Government Award Book Award".

"In short, this collation should be worthy of the author Yu Fan, worthy of the platform of Fudan University, and worthy of all kinds of similar collations." Wang Shaohua said.

Xinmin Evening News reporter Zhang Jiongqiang