Song Ci Guanzhi

Author: Yu Chaogang Zhou Hang
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: Stop and Go is based on Complete Songs of the Song Dynasty, while also referencing various collections of Song lyrics, including general anthologies, individual collections, selected works, lyric discussions, critiques, and other related materials. After careful consideration, it selects over 500 lyricists and nearly 2,000 lyric works, encompassing the essence of Song lyrics. In addition to the original text and author biographies, the book includes annotations, explanations, and collected critiques. The annotations aim to be concise and accurate, primarily explaining allusions, historical facts, and difficult terms, without providing overall sentence interpretations. The explanations reflect the editor's basic understanding of the original works, introducing background information, highlighting thematic ideas, or exploring artistic features, without attempting to cover everything, merely offering personal insights in brief text. The collected critiques include insightful remarks by lyric scholars from the Song, Jin, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, as well as contemporary masters such as Xia Chengtao and Tang Guizhang, along with some renowned scholars. This is undoubtedly highly beneficial for readers in reading and appreciating Song lyrics.