Guzhu Shi Yi Guzhu Yu Lun

Author: Sun Yirang (Qing Dynasty)
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Publishing Date: 1989-09-01
Features: Gu Zhu Shi Yi and Gu Zhu Yu Lun are two works by Sun Yirang, a renowned Qing Dynasty Confucian scholar and paleographer (1848-1908), known as Zhongrong and Zhuoxing, from Rui'an, Zhejiang. Gu Zhu Shi Yi was completed in the 11th year of the Tongzhi reign (1872), revised and re-edited by Sun in the 14th year of the Guangxu reign (1888), and published in Wenzhou in the 16th year of the Guangxu reign (1890). The book consists of three volumes. The first volume selects and examines fourteen inscriptions from bronze vessel inscriptions copied in Shi Shang Gong's Lidai Zhongding Yiqi Kouzhang Fantie (A Collection of Seal Inscriptions on Ancient Bronzes). The second and third volumes, respectively, select and examine thirty inscriptions from Ruan Yuan's Jigu Zhai Zhongding Yiqi Kouzhang and twenty-two inscriptions from Wu Rongguang's Yunqing Guwen (Gold Inscriptions from Yunqing Studio). Gu Zhu Yu Lun was completed in the 29th year of the Guangxu reign (1903), but was not published during Sun's lifetime. In 1926, Rong Geng published it at Peking University's Institute of Chinese Studies using a manuscript obtained by Wang Guowei, adding over 500 corrections himself. Later, Dai Jiaxiang obtained three more manuscripts by Sun and added over 1,000 more corrections. It was published in 1929. Originally divided into two volumes, it examined 105 important bronze vessel inscriptions from Wu Shifen's Hugu Lu Jinwen (A Collection of Gold Inscriptions). When Rong Geng published it, he divided it into three volumes to match the volume structure of Hugu Lu Jinwen.