Page 1 About the Author
Wu Chucai: (1655~1719), courtesy name Chengquan, Zi zi you, chucai, Zhejiang Shanyin Prefecture (present-day Shaoxing) people. He was tutored at an early age and was diligent and studious. At the age of 16, he suffered from a foot disease, and after several years of illness, he still could not release the scroll. He recovered from illness and made great progress in his studies, and set up a museum at home to teach apprentices. I have taken the exam many times, but I have failed many times. Together with his nephew Wu Tiaohou, he compiled the book "Ancient Literature Guanzhi".
Marquis wu: A native of the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, he was born in Shanyin County, Shaoxing Province. And his uncle Wu Chucai and both of them have read the classics, neither of them is suitable for career and buried in the folk; both have been engaged in private school teaching for a long time, and they have left their names for posterity because of the co-compilation of the "Ancient Literature Guanzhi".
Page 2 Reader's Comments
Mr. Lu Xun commented on the "Ancient Literature Guanzhi": he believes that it is the same as the "Selected Works of Zhaoming", "in terms of literary influence, both are the same and cannot be taken lightly."
The texts selected in the "Ancient Literature Guanzhi" are all the best works selected in the long river of ancient history, and these works are either majestic and elegant, or handsome and fresh. Although the subject matter of the selected works is extensive, they are all rich in content and sincere.
"Ancient Literature and Guanzhi" breaks through the limitation that classified selections are easy to be trivial, and is a relatively systematic general historical anthology. Taking texts can roughly reflect the general situation of different stages of development and different styles of ancient prose, give readers a holistic view of the history of Chinese prose, not only select the famous passages passed down through the ages as much as possible, but also highlight the key points, and the standard of Hengwen strives to take into account both ideology and art, and try to avoid the bias of re-rationalization or the bias of re-text.
The author still puts it in the first place not to violate feudal orthodoxy, and "heresy" cannot be selected. In each article, at the end of each article, there are sandwich or tail batches.
Page 3 Background of writing
The authors of the Ancient Literature Guanzhi are Wu Chengquan and Wu Qiaohou's uncles and nephews from Shanyin (present-day Shaoxing, Zhejiang) in the early Qing Dynasty. Wu Chengquan, character Chucai. He studied ancient Chinese all his life and read the history of the Scriptures. In the fifteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1676), he studied ancient Chinese in Fuzhou to assist the son of his uncle, and later spent his life teaching the museum.
In addition to participating in the compilation of the "Ancient Literature Guanzhi", he also used the style of Zhu Xi's "Outline of Tongjian" together with Zhou Zhijiong and Zhou Zhican to compile a popular historical reading book, "Gangjian Yizhilu". The great post, the character tone, is also a love of "ancient learning" and "talented". The main experience of his life was teaching with his uncle in his hometown. Erwu took years to compile the Ancient Literature GuanZhi.
At first, they just compiled some handouts to teach the boy ancient texts. Later, year by year, the views on the ancient texts became deeper and deeper, and the lecture notes became more and more refined, so that the "handwritten records of the good deeds" went away, and "Mr. Xiang" sighed after reading them, and advised them to "put it into the world." In this way, they "compiled a number of poems of the usual coursework" into a book.
After the manuscript was compiled, it was sent to Naturalization (present-day Hohhot) for Wu Xingzuo to review. Xingzuo (興祚), also spelled Bocheng (伯成), is the uncle of the right to take advantage of the power. He was appointed governor of Liangguang and then deputy governor of the Han army. He "read and counted", thinking that this book was of great benefit to beginners who were new to ancient texts, so that the Dragon Boat Festival in the thirty-fourth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1695) could preface the book, and "urgently put it into the pear jujube". Thus there is the earliest engraving of the "Ancient Literature Guanzhi".
Page 4 Summary of contents
The Ancient Literature Guanzhi is an anthology of ancient prose selected by the Qing dynasty Wu Chucai and Wu Tiaohou in the thirty-third year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1694). It was approved and prefaced by Wu Xingzuo in the Qing Dynasty, and the preface said that "in this way, I was cultivated and learned later", which was the enlightenment reading material for readers at that time. In the thirty-fourth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1695), it was officially engraved and printed. Over the past 300 years, "Ancient Literature And GuanZhi" has been widely circulated and has great influence, and is unique among many ancient anthologies.
The term "Guan Zhi" was first used in the Twenty-Ninth Year of Zuo Chuan Xiang Gong :( Wu Gongzi Ji Zha) see the dancer "Shao Zhen", "... If there is pleasure in him, I dare not ask for it. "Contemplation means perfection. The title of the book, "Ancient Literature Guan Zhi", means that the articles included in the anthology represent the highest level of Wen Yan Wen, and the study of Wen Yan Wen has ended here.
"Ancient Literature Guanzhi" is an ancient book that has so far written a famous article on the history of China for 5,000 years, and it is a literary reading book selected and compiled during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty for use by scholars. The selected texts in the book begin with the Qin Dynasty and go down to the end of the Ming Dynasty, which roughly reflects the general outline and main features of the development of prose from the Pre-Qin to the Late Ming Dynasty.
These include 34 zuo zhuan, 11 Chinese, 3 ram biographies, 6 ritual records, 14 warring states policies, 24 Han Yuwen, 11 Liu Zongyuanwen, 13 Ouyang Xiu, 17 Su Shiwen, 3 Su Ruiwen, and 4 Wang Anshi... A total of 222 articles. Short, pithy and catchy essays show the profundity of ancient Chinese culture and the extraordinary wisdom of the ancient Chinese people from many angles.
"Ancient Literature Guanzhi" is a good selection of essays that crosses the beauty of the landscape, and is the most gorgeous, most valuable and most representative exquisite ancient text collected by the author in the vast sea of Chinese literature from a sharp perspective, so the book is also the most excellent ancient anthology. It is because the editors catalog the most representative works of the best writers in turn according to the process of history, and reading them is like walking through the long corridor of the history of the development of ancient Chinese prose, along the waves to discuss the source, because of the branches and leaves, you can effortlessly appreciate the context; in other words, it means that the "Ancient Literature Guanzhi" almost collects various styles and various contents of China's ancient articles.
The ancient texts selected in the "Ancient Literature Guanzhi" are mainly prose, and include both rhymes and piao texts, which are basically famous passages passed down through the ages, with "eternal artistic charm". The editor named it "Guan Zhi", I am afraid that he did have the state of mind that Wu Gongzi Jizha had when he watched the dance music. The most selected in the pre-Qin Dynasty was the Zuo Chuan, the most selected in the Han Dynasty was the "History of History", and the most selected in the Tang and Song Dynasties were the articles of Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Ouyang Xiu, and Su Shi. "Ancient Literature And Guan Zhi" is an image of the Chinese dynasty prose grand view, but also a living prose development process.
On the other hand, although the "Ancient Literature Guanzhi" was selected and compiled for the Mongolian children and ordinary ancient literature lovers at that time, there was no kitsch at all, and these immortal classics contained rich historical knowledge, mature life experience, difficult article aesthetics, and even a broad cosmic philosophy.
In the vast sea of Prose in China, there are too many excellent works, and the works selected in "Ancient Literature Guanzhi" are really not high for Mengtong to read, and scholars are not low to read, much like the well-known "Three Hundred Poems of Tang Dynasty", these two anthologies can be called the double bibi of traditional Chinese literature popular reading
For hundreds of years, not only readers have been familiar with the "Ancient Literature and Guanzhi", but the general public has also loved it and spread it widely.
Although the limitations of the author's thought make the selected essay have a strong theoretical color, it does build a shortcut for the reader to best appreciate the essence of the ancient text, so it is inevitable that the reputation will not fade.
Page 5 Quotes
1, idle and quiet, not seeking rongli. Good reading, not seeking much understanding; whenever there is a will, it gladly forgets to eat.
Mr. Goyanagi is quiet and quiet, rarely speaks, and does not envy Ronghua Lilu. I like to read, and I only want to understand the gist of reading, not to delve too deeply into the explanation of every word; whenever I understand the contents of the book, I gladly forget to eat.
2. The ancients are rich and famous, and they are invincible, but they are called extraordinary. King Gaiwen performed "Zhou Yi"; Zhongni'er wrote "Spring and Autumn"; Qu Yuan was exiled, naifu "Leaving Sorrow"; Zuo Qiu was blind and had "Chinese"; Sun Tzu's foot, "The Art of War" was revised; Bu Wei Qianshu, the hereditary "Lü Lan"; Han Fei imprisoned Qin, "Speaking of Difficulties", "Lonely Anger"; "Poems" 300 pieces, the works of the sages of the Great Bottom who were angry.
In ancient times, although they were rich and noble, but their names were not passed on, there were too many to count, and only those who were extraordinary and ordinary were famous in the world. Xi Bojichang was detained and expanded to write "Zhou Yi"; Confucius was embarrassed to write "Spring and Autumn"; Qu Yuan was exiled to write "Leaving Sorrow"; Zuo Qiuming was blind before he wrote "Chinese"; Sun Bing was amputated from his kneecap before writing "The Art of War"; Lü Buwei was degraded to Shudi, and "Lü Shi Chunqiu" was circulated in later generations; Han Fei was imprisoned in the Qin State and wrote "Speaking difficulty" and "Lonely Anger"; and "Poems" were mostly written by some sages expressing their indignation.
3. The so-called heroes of the ancient world will have a festival of superiority, and those who cannot endure human feelings will be able to endure. Seeing the humiliation, The piaf drew his sword and stood up to fight, which was not brave enough. There are great brave people in the world, who come without being alarmed, and without anger without reason. Its captors are enormous, and their ambitions are far-reaching.
In ancient times, the zhishi who was called Haojie must have the discipline of winning people, and had a measure that ordinary people could not tolerate. A brave and unscrupulous person who is insulted will definitely draw his sword and fight forward, which is not enough to be called a warrior. People in the world who really have heroic spirit do not panic when they encounter sudden situations, and they are not angry when they are insulted by others for no reason. This is because they have great ambitions and lofty ambitions.
4. If the husband is close, there will be many tourists; if the danger is far away, there will be few. And the wonders and wonders of the world, the extraordinary view, often lies in the dangers and distances, and the places of people are rare, so those who do not have lofty ideals cannot reach it. Those who have ambitions do not stop with it, but those who lack strength cannot reach it. There is ambition and strength, but not to slacken off, and as for the darkness and confusion and nothing to do with each other, it cannot be reached.
【To the effect】 If the road is flat and close, there are more people who come to visit; in the difficult and remote places on the road, there are fewer people who come to visit. But the wonderful, majestic, rare, and extraordinary landscapes of the world are often in places that are treacherous, remote, and rarely visited, so people without will cannot reach them. With ambition, do not blindly stop from others, but those who lack physical strength cannot reach. With ambition and physical strength, I do not blindly follow others and slacken off, but when I reach that dark and confusing place, I cannot reach it without the necessary objects to assist and cannot reach it.
(To be continued)
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