Proofreading seems like a boring thing. But looking through the ancient books, we can see a lot of interesting things about proofreading, which is very interesting to read and can also give people inspiration.
1． Zi Xia: Proofread the two characters to become a saint.
Zi Xia was a Wei guoren, a disciple of Confucius, and one of the "Ten Philosophies of Confucius". The "Interpretation of the Seventy-Two Disciples of Confucius" records that once Zi xia returned to Weiguo and saw someone reading a history book, the person suddenly read a sentence: "The Jin master cut down the Qin, and the three feng crossed the river." Zi Xia Yue: "Non-also! He's been. Zixia mistakenly believed that the "Three Fengs" were "己海", that is, the Jin army cut down Qin and crossed the Yellow River on the day of the Jihai (Ganzhi JiRi). The crossing of the river by three pigs (three pigs) is unreasonable, and it has nothing to do with the Jin Dynasty. The person who read the history books deliberately went to the Jin State Historian to verify, and the Historian confirmed that Zixia's order was correct, and Zixia became famous.
2． Wang Bo: At the age of nine, he was able to study the Book of Han.
Wang Bo, Tang Dynasty literary scholar, one of the "Four Masters of the Early Tang Dynasty". Yang Jiong's "Preface to the Collection of Wang Bo" records: "(Wang Bo) read Yan's "Book of Han" at the age of nine and wrote ten volumes of "Finger Defects". In the "New Book of Tang and the Biography of Wang Bo", co-authored by Ouyang Xiu, Song Qi, and others, it is recorded: "(Wang Bo) was good at writing and writing at the age of nine, and at the age of nine, he was read by Yan Shigu's ancient annotation of the Book of Han, and wrote "Finger Flaws" to dispel his loss." It is not surprising that a nine-year-old child can write good poems, nor can he read some ancient books, but it is definitely not simple to be able to annotate the "Book of Han" that Can annotate Yan Shigu, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is an ancient anecdote. Yan Shigu was a great Confucian of the Sui and Tang dynasties, and was the first master among the commentators of the Book of Han in the past, not to mention that Wang Bo's "finger" was ten volumes.
3． Song Shuo: Using "sweeping dust" as a metaphor for "school books".
Song Shou was a scholar of the Northern Song Dynasty. The "Biography of Song Shi Song" records that he "collected more than 10,000 volumes, personally proofread the chickens, and the Botong Jing Shi Baijia". Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Pen Talk" volume 25 records that once, Song Shou schooled a book, proofread three or four times, there are leaks and errors in the book, and afterwards Song Shou sighed: "The school book is like sweeping dust, one side sweeps, the other side is born." Therefore, there is a book every three or four schools, and there is still a detachment. This is really a figurative metaphor, this sentence later became a famous saying in the field of proofreading, from which we can see the difficulty of school books.
4． Chen Jiru: School books are suitable for both books.
Chen Jiru was a Ming Dynasty writer. He once said in the sixty-second article of the "Iwachi Secret Affair": "Yude ancient books, proofread and copied, copied and re-proofed, proofread and engraved, re-proofread after engraving, proofread and printed, re-proofread after printing, RanluYu Emperor Tiger has two or three." In order to print an ancient book, Chen Jiru has conducted many proofreadings, which can be seen in the rigor of his study and the prudence of proofreading, but the errors in the book are still inevitable. What he called "Luyu Dihu" is an idiom that refers to the errors that occur in the process of writing and writing. This seems to confirm Song Shuo's saying that "school books are like sweeping dust". Chen Jiru's poetry is extremely profound, and his works are very rich, including "The Secret Of the Small Window", "The Outer Record of Ancient Literature", "Selected Poems of famous public poets of the National Dynasty", "The Complete Works of Mr. Chen Meigong", etc. He can achieve such great achievements in the field of literature, to a large extent, thanks to the work of school books.
5． Gu Guangxi: Take pleasure in thinking about "wrong books".
Gu Guangxi was a Qing Dynasty bibliographer and collator. Huang Pilie, a famous scholar of his contemporaries, wrote in an annotation to the "Hundred Song Dynasties and One Endowment": "The surname of the resident is as the name Guangxi, the students of Yuanhe County, and the xi school books, all have a basis, and there is absolutely no chiseling... Deeply taken from Xing Zi cai ri thinking about the wrong book is even more appropriate, with it to call itself a cloud. "Gu Guangxi's school books have a basis, do not change in vain, do not want to take it for granted, do not abuse the sword and axe, this practice is worth learning from contemporary editors and school workers." What is particularly interesting is that Gu Guangxi believes that "thinking about the wrong book every day is even more appropriate", that is, thinking about the mistakes in the book every day as a kind of fun, so he calls himself "Thinking of the Right Resident". This did not seem to be too addictive, and he also named his collection "Si Shi Zhai" and his collection of essays "Si Shi Zhai Collection". It is precisely because of the daily progress that Gu Guangxi's proofreading skills are growing day by day, and the famous scholars and publishers at that time all competed to hire him to do proofreading work.
6． Bhoutimbo: Typos are hard to escape.
Bao Tingbo, a poet and bibliophile of the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty philologist Ye Changchi quoted the text in Weng Guangping's "Biography of Bao Shu Drinking" in the "Collected Chronicle Poems": "(Bao Tingbo) was a lover of books in his life, and every time he looked at it, he could remember a certain page of his volume and a certain word. Those who hold a book to ask questions, do not wait to be read, see the mouth of the board, that is, this so-and-so board, a certain volume of publication of a number of words. The history of the case is not pleasant. "Bao Tingbo is really powerful, and the false zigzags in many books are nowhere to be seen in his eyes, and he keeps them in mind, which is the result of reading books, familiarizing himself with the version, and learning to be rich in five cars."
7． Shen Kuo: An irresponsible school secretary who records it.
Volume XI of Shen Kuo's Mengxi Pen Talk records: "Many of the old school scribes did not sympathize with their duties, but took the old book with the word ink and double-annotated the old word on its side, thinking that it was a daily lesson." The self-installed editing bureau was only able to use Zhu Weizhi. The main meaning of this passage is that most of the previous school scribes did not fulfill their duties, and when they worked, they would take old books, deliberately smear a certain word with ink, and then put aside the smeared words, which was considered a day's work. Later, the Editorial Bureau was set up, and when it was necessary to modify the text, only the words that needed to be corrected were circled with a red pen, and the words could no longer be smeared. The school secretary was superfluous and extremely harmful, but fortunately the imperial court at that time corrected it.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the famous historical notes "Qing Barnyard Banknotes" have such words: "School books, those who are not erudite and diligent in reading books and are idle, cannot write... Only by diligently studying and asking the reclusive gentleman can we do it. "It seems that doing proofreading work requires erudition, good antiquity, diligent reading, and a lot of time. In addition, you must be diligent and inquisitive, willing to be a reclusive gentleman, and endure loneliness. In this way, they can be competent for proofreading.
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