Selected Poems of Yuan: Three Series

Author: Gu Sili (Qing Dynasty)
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Publishing Date: 2002-11-01
Features: I have previously compiled Yuan Dynasty poems, totaling over two hundred, which have been circulating in the world for a long time. After the Wanning period, I further extensively searched and collected, exhausting my physical and mental strength. I left no stone unturned in the of in Wu. In the autumn of the Yiyou year, I was summoned to the capital to compile and select poems from the four dynasties. Thus, I had the opportunity to fully explore the secret manuscripts of the imperial collection, personally copying and preserving them. In the autumn of the Yimei year, I was granted leave to return home. I traveled south along the Xiang River and Chuan River, and north to Songshan and Tai Mountain, seeking lost works, and my collection grew even more. After a period of travel, I retired to my cottage and combined the findings from the past twenty years, reorganizing and refining them. The completed collection now totals approximately one hundred and sixty households. The selected works from various collections, as well as poems found in , , , , and in the scrolls of calligraphy and painting that contained fewer than a few poems, were compiled into the Gu Collection, totaling over three thousand individuals. This has become a grand collection of Yuan Dynasty poems. The handwriting is rough, and I wanted to have all the legends and published, but I fell short of the strength. I first published the hundred collections to the world, and in the future, I will complete the entire book to achieve a grand vision. Thus, the essence of the Yuan Dynasty will not be lost or hidden, and my half-life of will also be able to fulfill my aspirations. In the fifty-ninth year of Kangxi, the eighth month of the autumn of the Gengzi year, Changzhou Gu Sili wrote this at Xiuyeda Cottage.