Bright people
Pingyang literati who compiled the Yongle Canon
- Wu Zhiwen, a native of Pingyang, and Li An, a member of the Pingyang Dynasty, participated in the revision
The Ming Dynasty's Yongle Canon is the largest book in Chinese history. It also left many rich stories and difficult mysteries for future generations. According to rough statistics, the number of ancient classics selected and preserved by the Yongle Canon is five or six times that of the previous generation of "Art and Literature Collection", "Taiping Imperial Records", "Yuangui of the Book", etc., that is, the large-scale series of books compiled by the Qing Dynasty, "Siku Quanshu", and the collection of books is only more than 3,000 kinds.
The Yongle Canon uses rhymes to unify characters and uses words to compile things, and records the contents of the entire book and the whole text under each word, and the whole book is 22,937 volumes and 11,095 volumes, totaling more than 370 million words. In terms of scale, rich content, voluminous volume, and innovation, it is at the forefront of the world cultural forest in the 15th century, and it is a cultural treasure house worthy of our pride. It preserves an extremely rich amount of information and has become the source of books compiled by later generations.
In July of the first year of Ming Yongle (1403), Emperor Zhu Di of Ming Chengzu Yongle believed that ancient and modern things under the heavens were scattered in various books, and that the chapters were not suitable for reading, so Xie Jin and others compiled rhyme books, "All the books of the scriptures, histories, zi, collections, and hundreds of families since the book deeds, as for astronomy, geography, yin and yang, medical divination, monasticism, and techniques, prepared as a book, do not tire of the voluminous." "In November of the following year, the book was completed and given the title of "Literature Dacheng"." However, many of the books entered by the Upper Reading were still unprepared, so they were ordered to be rebuilt. And The Crown Prince Yao Guangxiao, the Punishment Department Attendant Liu Jiji and Jin in short; the Order Hanlin Scholar Wang Jing, the Attendant Scholar Wang Da, the Guozi Sacrifice Wine Hu Yu, the Sijing Bureau Wash ma Yang Pu, the Confucian Chen Ji as the president; the Hanlin Attendant Zou Ji, the Xiu Zhi Wang Bao, the Liang Qian, the Wu Bo, the Li Guan, the Yang Zhen, the Zeng Tang, the editor Zhu Hong, the review of Wang Hong, Jiang Ji, Pan Qi, Wang Wei, Su Bohou, Zhang Boying, the classic Liang Yongxing, Shu Ji Shi Yang Xiang, Zuo Chunfang Zuo Zhongyun Yin Changlong, the Zongrenfu Jing Shu Gao Deci, the official Department OfFir Zhongye Ye, and the Shandong Accordingcha Shi Shi Yan Bi as vice presidents, "Opened in Wenyuan Pavilion.
In November of the fifth year of Yongle (1408), "Crown Prince Shaobao Yao Guangxiao and others entered the book "Reconstructing the Literature Dacheng", where 22,211 volumes and 11,900 copies were renamed the Yongle Canon. "There is a difference in the banknotes of the two thousand one hundred and sixty-nine people such as Shi Guangxiao," and we can see the greatness of the project of compiling the Canon.
According to the statistics of scholars, in order to compile the Yongle Canon, more than 2,000 scribes and scholars from all over the country participated in the event, and most of them did not appear in the historical records. Guo Bogong, Wang Chongmin and many other scholars of previous generations have now verified that more than 300 people have participated in the Yongle Canon from the records of various local chronicles.
Among the many scholars involved in the compilation of the Yongle Canon, there were many Scholars of Wen nationality, which had something to do with Huang Huai, a Wenzhou scholar who was a Hanlin scholar at that time. Among them were Pan Qi (1353-1435), vice president of the Yongle Canon, who wrote minzhi, no. 10,000 yuan, and Yongjiaren (present-day Lucheng District). Zhang Wenxuan (1374-1407), Zi Shiquan, Yongjia people. Yongle Bing Shu dengjinshi, elected to Hanlin. Chong Shu Ji Shi, entered the Wenyuan Pavilion, pre-repaired the Yongle Canon, accumulated labor into illness, and died. Kim Won-kei (?) -1435), a scholar who successively served as a professor in Ji'an and Yongfeng, promoted to professors in Xiangyang and Changzhou, summoned to Wenyuan Pavilion, and served as a transcription and circle student of the Yongle Canon. Yu Yuanxuan (1367-1439), a native of Ruian, is currently believed to have participated in the work of copying copies.
The above list of figures is a Wenzhou scholar verified by Wenzhou scholars. In fact, there are two scholars from Wenzhou Pingyang who are not recorded here, Wu Zhiwen and Li An, the Yongle Chengjiao Jinshi, and Li An, which are clearly recorded in the local historical materials of Pingyang.
Wu Zhiwen: Jinshi, Hanlin Yuan Shujishi
Wu Zhiwen (?) --1433) was the compiler of the Yongle Canon. Mingyuan, No. Shu'an, Pingyang Kunyang Lingmen, Dr. Song Taichang Wu Yun's ancient descendants, when he was young, he was intelligent and studious, good at reading, and filial piety. In the third year of Yongle (1405), the Zhejiang Township Examination was lifted, and in the fourth year of Yongle (1406), he entered the army (51st in the second division) and participated in the usurpation of the Yongle Canon. After five years, he was the head of the Relocation Department, successively served as the prefect of Jiujiang, and was renamed Jianchang Province. For the integrity of the official. Without being asked to be entrusted, the adultery and fraud were eliminated, and when Jiujiang's term of office expired, there was a shortage of road fees to go home, and the sale of family property could be completed. He is the author of "Shu An Collection" and "Wu Hanlin Collection".
"[Longqing] Pingyang County Zhi • Character • Eunuch" has a legend: "Wu Zhiwen, The Number Shu'an, Song Tai Chang Yun Ancient Descendants. Less than different, good at books. Sex to filial piety, maternal illness in childhood, medical treatment, cutting flesh to enter, then healed, county table. Yongle Chengji Jinshi (永樂丙戌進士), who was awarded the Hanlin Yuan Shu Jishi (庶吉士), compiled the Yongle Canon. Sheng jianchang prefect, changed the jiujiang prefect, where six years, a clear as water, to the return of the government, the book ordered his son to produce property to charge the road fee. The people felt their virtue and donated money to build a shrine on the county side. Gui Lin wrote books and collected poems. "[Kangxi] Pingyang County Chronicle" Volume 10 "Character History • Eunuch" the same.
There is a slight error in the above, and the official position should be first appointed to Jiujiang and then changed to Jianchang Province. Wu Zhiwen served in the prefects of Jiujiang and Jianchang, and he loved the people with all his will, please do not do it, and learn about the adultery and malpractice. Play the official Tian rent heavy, please fold the cloth, the imperial court from it, the county called fast. He has a lot of political achievements. On the day of death, the people mourn like the lost parents of Yun (Ming Xuanzong Shilu, vol. 63). Wenzhou Tongxiang University Scholar Shaobao Huang Huai Bangzhi with poems:
Early from the art garden to sow Qingfen,
Calligraphy still spread to the Right Army.
The hometown used to accompany the cane,
Ketujin endured reading the inscription.
Plains desert with many new grasses,
Qiu Mu Cang with sunset smoke,
But the sage can continue to say,
All beings should have a song to the river.
According to Qianlong's "Pingyang County Chronicle", volume XVIII [Magazine. Monuments] contains, Wu Zhiwen still has a poem "Guan Yu Ting":
The Tao is between heaven and earth, birds fly and fish leap.
Guan Yu Qi is mysterious, and the tendency is also si ruo.
Although the jump is in the fish, so the jumper who.
All kinds of things are pushed.
Happy fish is not in the abyss, happy road is in harmony with nature,
Make a pavilion to watch the fish, and aspire to the sages.
Compilation of Li An: Shi Gong, Nanyang Tongju
Ang Lee (?) --？ ), year of birth and death unknown, Pingyang County, Po Nan people. There is a legend under Yongle Item in the [Kangxi] Pingyang County Chronicle, Volume IX of the Electoral Chronicle: "Li An, Nanyang Tongjue. Pre-study the Yongle Canon. Jupo South. "[Longqing] Pingyang County Chronicle • Election • Year Tribute" contains Li An's name and official, but does not mention the matter of repairing the Yongle Canon. [Republic of China] Pingyang County Chronicle, vol. 29 [Electoral Chronicle]: "Li An, Ju Po Nan. Nanyang Tongju. Pre-study the Yongle Canon. "to confirm.
There are very few historical records of Li An, and the qing Qing "[Kangxi] Nanyang Fu Zhi" volume IV [rank official] contains: "General Judgment", Li An, Xuande then appointed. "Jiaqing's "Nanyang Fuzhi" is the same as this. It can be seen that after Li An completed the revision of the Yongle Canon, he served as a judge of Nanyang Province, Henan during the Xuande period (1426-1436). Unfortunately, his political achievements are unknown. Tongjue, one of the official positions in ancient China. The official system began in the Song Dynasty, and during the Ming Dynasty, it was the deputy post of each province, located under the prefect and tongzhi. This official position is arranged in the locally established Jingfu or Prefecture, and its functions are to be in charge of patrolling and fishing, grain transportation, river defense and farmland water conservancy, tuntian and other matters with Tongzhi, and the products are zhengliupin.
Although only Wu Zhiwen and Li An were involved in the compilation of the Yongle Canon by Pingyang scholars, from the perspective of the historical status of the Yongle Canon, it was indeed not easy for the whole country. These two Pingyang scholars have left their own strong mark in the history of human civilization with their talents, talents and contributions, which is worthy of the pride and pride of our Pingyang people today...
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