Mirror of Literary Secrets: Collected Edition and Examinations (Complete Four Volumes)

Author: Lu Shengjiang
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: Wenjing Mifu Lun is a work on Chinese literary theory compiled by the Japanese monk Kukai in the 9th century. Many important documents from the Six Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty in China have been preserved thanks to this book. The author of this book visited Japan twice, entered deep mountains, visited ancient temples, and traveled between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. He clarified the existing manuscripts, sorted out previous achievements, corrected and collated texts, compared and verified, examined the original classics, annotated the terminology, supplemented the omissions and errors of old theories, and presented independent insights, resulting in the book Wenjing Mifu Lun Huixiao Kao. The traces of his collation and interpretation cover fields related to Wenjing Mifu Lun, such as literature, phonology, Japanese Buddhist studies, Chinese poetry studies, and song studies, as well as archaeology and folk studies. As a concluding result of collation research, this book uses more complete manuscripts, has a reliable text, more accurate and detailed annotations, and more complete and abundant materials, making it an essential book for studying Wenjing Mifu Lun and the literature and linguistics of the Six Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty.