Nantong Fan Family, a family of poetry and prose exchange

Author: Fan Zeng
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Publishing Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book selects approximately four million words of literary works by twenty-one authors from thirteen generations of the Nanjing Fan family, including 8,491 poems, 291 couplets of poetry, 2,152 articles, five monographs, 185 letters, and 110 diary entries. It also includes 2,022 poems, 66 articles, three monographs, and two translated works by eleven authors related to the Nanjing Fan family, totaling over 600,000 words. Additionally, it includes four chronicles and annals, exceeding 700,000 words. Genealogical Order. The authors selected in this book are ordered from Fan Zeng upward, including Fan Zeng's father, grandfather, great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather, and extending to Fan Zeng's twelfth-generation ancestor, Fan Yinglong. Volume Arrangement. The book is divided into two parts: the Main Volume and the Supplementary Volume, comprising twenty-six volumes and twenty-one issues. Editorial Principles. Adhering to the principle of "preserving the original state," it maximizes the retention of the textual characteristics of ancient books. The original content of the works is not altered, and the commentary on historical figures and events in the poems and articles remains unchanged. Titles of the works are generally preserved; for exceptionally long titles, the first line of the poem or article is used as the title, with the original title retained as a preface. The book uses traditional characters and a vertical layout. In accordance with the current national language and character norms, variant characters are replaced with standard characters (with some proper nouns retaining variant forms), while archaic characters, homophones, abbreviated characters, borrowed characters, and taboo characters remain unchanged.