The "Continuation Of Yi Jianzhi" in the "Collection of Mr. YuanYishan" is a collection of short stories and strange novels in a historical and miscellaneous style. The Four Volumes of the Continuation of Yi Jian Zhi, 208 articles. Its content can be roughly divided into six categories: first, different people and different things; second, historical materials; third, physiological medicine; fourth, cultural relics; fifth, animals and plants; and sixth, natural phenomena. The title of the book is derived from the Southern Song Dynasty Hongmai's Yi Jianzhi. The name of "Yi Jian", see "Liezi Tang Qing", said that when Da Yu ruled the water, there were gods and monsters, rare birds and beasts, "Da Yu walked and saw it, Bo Yi knew and named it, Yi Jian heard it and zhizhi". The book of Hong Mai records all strange things, so it is called "Yi Jianzhi". Most of the books written in the Yuan Haowen book also belong to this category, so it is called "Continuing Yi Jianzhi".
It is this unique collection of Zhiwei novels at the time of the Golden Yuan, and since its death, except for the introduction of the "Outline of the General Catalogue of the Four Libraries", almost no one has paid attention to it for more than seven hundred years. Lu Xun's "Outline of the History of the Chinese Novel" is the first monograph to systematically discuss the history of the development of the Chinese novel. This monograph, which begins with ancient myths and legends and ends with the condemnation of novels at the end of the Qing Dynasty, completely discusses the origin and evolution of Chinese novels, accurately evaluates the representative novel writers and works of Various Historical Periods in China, and profoundly analyzes the internal relationship between the novels in the early and late periods. However, even this influential monograph did not include "Continuing Yi Jianzhi". As for the various novel histories and literary histories that followed, most of them are also lost. However, as an extremely rare novel handed down to the present day by the Arikyung generation, it has obvious characteristics, and its ideas and art are extraordinary. In the 1980s, Professor Li Zhengmin of Shanxi University took this as a topic, conducted in-depth research and systematic collation, which can be described as a contribution to the contemporary era and benefits in the future.
The events recorded in the "Continuation of Yi Jianzhi" are in the second year of the reign of Gao Wei (566) (see Linzi Daoist Temple) after the Northern Qi Dynasty, and in the first year of the Mongol Xianzong Meng ge (1251) (see "Baoyang Erlong"), nearly seven hundred years before and after. The purpose of Yuan Haowen's writing of this book is to do his best to preserve the culture of the Central Plains and not to make the Jinyuan generation of documents disappear. The "Continuing Yi Jianzhi" was consciously compiled around the purpose of storing gold history and documents. From this point of view, although Yuan Haowen's "Continued Yi Jianzhi" is different from "Search for God" and has its own characteristics, it is strictly adhering to historical and literary traditions. Therefore, Yuan Hao asked this collection of Zhiwei novels in history, in the history of novels, it should have its own exclusive place.
Reading YuanHaowen's "Continuing Yi Jianzhi" can make us realize that Yuan Haowen was not only an outstanding poet, lyricist, poet, essayist, historian, and effective social and cultural activist, but also a rare writer of literary short stories in the Jin Dynasty. The achievements of his "Continued Yi Jianzhi", the asanas of the Shangcheng Six Dynasties Zhiwei and the Tang Dynasty's "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks", and the Lower Qiyuan Ming and Qing Miscellaneous Novels, such as "Huhai News Yi Jianzhi", are obviously influenced by the "Continued Yi Jianzhi". At the same time, it also absorbed some of the brushwork of Tang legends. More importantly, because Yuan Haowen is in the critical historical period of the great transformation of the mainstream of mainland literature from elegant to vulgar, his literary novels cannot be unaffected by the influence of Song Jin's dialect and show the tendency to vulgarize, and the subtle transformation of this historical turning point, Yi Haobao is pregnant in the ink of the literary leaders, and the works are even more valuable!
As Mr. Li Zhengmin said: "The cultural giant Yuan Haoqing is the proud son of the times. The highly Sinicized origins of confucianism and Confucian culture cultivated the foundation of his thought and scholarship, and absorbed some Taoist and Zen nutrition. The heroic temperament of the minority nationalities and the natural natural gifts of growing up in Yunshuo, the historical process of national integration, and the great changes in society have affected his ability to break through to a certain extent the corrupt confucian view of being foolish and loyal to one family and one surname, enabling him to conform to the great changes of the times with a grand world outlook and outlook on life, putting the inheritance of advanced culture, social progress, and the interests of the people as the most important, placing personal honor and honor on a secondary position, and finally making immortal historical contributions. "Sincerely!
This collection of "Continuing Yi Jianzhi" in the Former Xian relics hall of the Xiurong Academy Museum is a version of the Qing Dynasty Sweeping Leaf Mountain House. Sweeping Leaf Mountain House is a long-established bookstore with a long history of 300 to 400 years, originally created in the Ming Dynasty Wanli Period, first set up a store in Suzhou Zhangmen, and then in 1880 set up a branch in Shanghai City Caiyi Street, and then set up a branch in the concession of Chessboard Street, called "Sweep leaf mountain fang north number". The chairman of the shop, who lived in Dongting Dongshan in Suzhou, purchased the Changshu Mao's Ancient Pavilion book edition in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties and set up this leaf sweeping mountain house. According to the records: "Bibliography of the Saoye Mountain House" mainly publishes subsets of the history of the scriptures, dictionaries, rulers, etc. Sweeping Leaf Mountain House is the engraving workshop built by the Xi clan in Changshu, Jiangsu during the Ming and Qing dynasties, one of the most famous private publishing institutions in the Qing Dynasty that mainly publishes ancient books, and is also the name of the Xi clan used as the name of the engraved books. In the Qing Dynasty, the leaf-sweeping mountain house had a considerable position in the book world.
The back of the title page of this collection is clearly printed with the "Three Years of the Republic of China Stone Seal" and the seal of "Sweeping Leaf Mountain House" is clearly printed, which lets us know the exact printing time of the collection. In front of the first volume of the collection, there are two lines of small characters that read, "Taiyuan Yuanhao asks Yu Zhilu, after pingning, he learns Zhang Mu Shuozhou school Zi". Based on this information, we learn that this collection is a republic of China print of The Late Qing Dynasty Zhang Mu's school edition.
Zhang Mu was a native of Pingding, Shanxi, and a modern patriotic thinker, geographer, poet, and calligrapher. He was born in the tenth year of Jiaqing (1805) and died in the twenty-ninth year of Daoguang (1849). There are "Wei Yanchang TopographicAl History", "Mongolian Nomads", "Yan Ruoxuan Chronicle", "Zhai Wen Collection", etc., after the age of 40, he devoted himself to the posthumous works of the former sages, which were quite influential in the academic circles. As a scholar of the right side of the mountain, Zhang Mu asked Gao Shan about the former Xianyuan, and he saw that there were many versions of the poems and lefu of the relic mountain, but rarely saw his Zhiwei novels, so he specially and carefully proofread and printed the "Continued Yi Jianzhi", leaving us with a precious version.
As a researcher at the Xiurong Academy Museum, it is our duty and obligation to conduct some superficial research on the collection from time to time and to provide more detailed interpretation services for tourists as much as possible. (Written by Zhang Liujin)