Cover news reporter Zhang Jie
As the first existing local chronicle in China, Huayang Guozhi is an important work that records the history of Southwest China from the era of prehistoric legends to the Eastern Jin Dynasty. According to Wang Qiming, a distinguished professor at Southwest Jiaotong University and an expert on Shu language studies, the original book of Huayang Guozhi was written in the genre of geography, chronicles, and biographies of people, and the three were mixed with each other and infiltrated, and the structure was relatively chaotic. There are many engravings of past dynasties, and there are many places of error, falsification, derivation, and inversion. Although some scholars have done a good job of sorting this out, such as Ren Naiqiang's "Notes on the Supplementary Map of Huayang Guozhi School" and Liu Lin's "Notes on the School of Huayang Guozhi", there are still cases of mutual disagreement and inconsistencies.
In order to continue to improve the "Huayang Guozhi" and "return the people and things recorded in the Huayang Guozhi to their original appearance", in 2006, Professor Wang Qiming applied for a scientific research project to the National Committee for the Collation and Research of Ancient Books in Colleges and Universities, and was successfully approved, becoming one of the only two projects in Sichuan Province that year. After that, Wang Qiming, together with Zhao Jing and Luo Yekai, combined with today's literature resources, physical materials and research results to conduct in-depth research on the "Huayang Guozhi", after 15 years of efforts, he completed the "Huayang Guozhi Department Annual Examination School". In January 2021, the "Huayang Guozhi Department Annual Examination School" was finally published by the China Social Sciences Press.
The "Huayang Guozhi" ("Huayang Guozhi" Department Annual Examination School" takes the time sutra, from the legendary period of ancient silkworm bushes and fish to the third year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (347 AD), and arranges the historical materials in the "Huayang Guozhi" according to the annual examination. The people, deeds, geography, and historical facts recorded should be compared year by year, so that the historical process is clearly organized and orderly. In the examination of the chronology, either directly record the previous people's sayings, or express their own opinions slightly; the writings of the people of the times are also adopted intermittently. In addition, the historical facts of the era, there are those who cannot clearly determine their right and wrong, and the characters and events to be investigated are not strong for interpretation, and they are temporarily paid for the time being.
Wang Qiming is a Distinguished Professor of Southwest Jiaotong University, a doctoral supervisor, and the director of the Bashu Dialect and Literature Research Center. He has won the first prize of the 18th Wang Li Linguistics Award, the 4th Global Chinese Sinology Classic Sinology Achievement Award, and published "Research on the Pre-Qin and Han Qi Languages", "Examination of the Middle and Ancient Shu Languages", "Han Primary School Literature and Language Research Series" and so on. He has many years of in-depth research on huayang guozhi. According to Wang Qiming, the engraving of the "Huayang Guozhi" began in the Song Dynasty Chengdu Prefecture Yin Lü Dafang, and there were many engravings in the Ming and Qing dynasties, according to Lü Shumei's "Collection of Editions of huayang Guozhi": "The Yunnan Provincial Library has 22 ancient and modern versions of the "Huayang Guozhi". Li Yongxian's "Huayang Guozhi Rare Books" has 23 kinds. Among the families that proofread the "Huayang Guozhi", the Qing people Hui Dong, Lu Wenbi, Sun Xingyan, Gu Guangxi, etc. are the most well-known. Ren Naiqiang's "Annotations on the Supplementary Map of Huayang Guozhi School" was pioneered in the past, and Liu Lin's "Annotations on the School of Huayang Guozhi" followed after that, and both gentlemen were famous historians with profound skills, and they were particularly powerful in the interpretation of place names and the examination of historical facts. However, there are still many unsafe places. As a local chronicle, the Huayang Guozhi has its own unique style of combining chronicles and chronicles. He was praised as "well-organized and systematic", "extensive and informative, rich in materials; rigorous and detailed in examination, and well-edified in materials; suppressing falsehoods and correcting fallacies", "unique, rich and reliable historical materials".
However, in Wang Qiming's view, there are still some deficiencies: for example, "First, the situation in which the matter of one person is commonly scattered in various volumes in the Huayang Guozhi. According to Mr. Ren Naiqiang's "Preface to the Supplementary Illustration of Huayang Guozhi School", the "Huayang Guozhi" was not written in a timely manner, and Chang Xuan consulted other works of his predecessors and contemporaries in the process of writing. This process of writing the book led to the fact that the Huayang Guozhi had an error in the time record of some events. Second, after the "Huayang Guozhi" was written, it was copied from generation to generation, and its Chinese characters were mostly mistaken, and even the chapters were missing, resulting in the "Huayang Guozhi" being unreadable. Third, Chang Xuan's record of certain people in the process of writing "Huayang Guozhi" is only a few words, and even contradicts each other. Mr. Ren Naiqiang's "Notes on School Supplements" is quite effective in the examination of "Huayang Guozhi", but it can still be improved. "The whole book of the "Huayang Guozhi Department Annual Examination School" adopts a chronological style, divides the whole book into several sections, and sorts them in chronological order; the previous four histories are the evidence of this and his books are circumstantial evidence, and a comparative survey is carried out; discretionary Ren and Liu present the similarities and differences between the text and historical facts in accordance with the language; combined with the excavated documents, the history of barnyard officials and the new research results, the politics, economy, people, ethnic groups, deeds, geography, customs, frontiers, etc., and those whose documents cannot be determined are listed separately in the form of "doubtful annals".
Translation of the 2007 edition of Huayang Guozhi
Translation of the 2013 edition of Huayang Guozhi
As early as 2007, Wang Qiming and Zhao Jing wrote "Translation notes on Huayang Guozhi", which was published by Sichuan University. Mr. Zhao Zhenduo said that he "took a different path, carefully translated the whole book, carefully deliberated, carefully selected the words, and wrote the "Huayang Guozhi Translation Notes", which was extended in the meaning of the word, the false borrowing of the text, the dredging certificate, and many creations." Providing beginners with a reference book should be a good thing with immeasurable merit. Although this translation was republished in 2013, it is now rarely seen on the market.
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