Song Dynasty edition of the Collectanea of Rhymes

Author: Ding Du (Song Dynasty)
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Publishing Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Jiyun is an important Middle Chinese rhyme dictionary, first compiled in the fourth year of the Jingyou era (1037 AD) during the Song Dynasty. At that time, figures like Zheng Xian and Song Qi submitted memorials criticizing Guanyun for "frequent use of outdated text and inappropriate brevity." As a result, Emperor Renzong ordered Ding Du and others to revise Guanyun. The revision was completed in the second year of the Baoyuan era (1039 AD), and it was officially named Jiyun. The Jiyun commonly available today are mostly in the form of shadow Song editions, Yao editions, Cao editions, etc., while Song editions are rarely seen. This book uses a Song edition preserved in the Beijing Library. Due to its excellent preservation, it is quite complete, with only minor damage. As it is an original Song edition, it naturally contains fewer errors than other printed versions. However, there are a few minor mistakes in the original plates of the Song edition. In the sixth volume, the small rhyme characters that should have been on page 11 were mistakenly placed in the Qiao rhyme on page 13, while the Qiao and Hao rhyme characters that should have been on page 13 were mistakenly placed in the small rhyme on page 11. For the convenience of readers, the pages 11 and 13 were swapped during typesetting to restore the original order of the rhymes. At the end of the book, there is a four-corner number index, made by cutting and pasting the character headers from the original book, which ensures high accuracy and easy lookup.