East Wu Experiences Collection: Wenzhou Literature Series

Author: Chen Ruizan Compiler and Annotation
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Publishing Date: 2006-11-01
Features: The anecdotes included in this book cover all aspects of Wenzhou history, and the people and events described are basically limited to the period before the Republic of China. The content is sourced from a wide variety of materials, with over 600 bibliographies cited throughout the book. The Four Books are all within the scope of collection, but the main focus is on the notes and treatises of past dynasties, especially the works of the Song and Ming dynasties. The title of this book is "Collected Anecdotes of Dongyou," and the term "anecdotes" actually refers to a quite broad range. The anecdotal materials included in this book include some stories that fall into the category of "things beyond the scope of polite conversation" in nature, such as "strange, powerful, chaotic, and divine" tales. These stories are scattered, their content trivial, and they are also difficult to possess academic value as systematic historical materials. However, in the current era of academic openness, people's use of historical materials is becoming increasingly broad. Many materials that were previously difficult to enter the academic field now have new meanings with the improvement of scholars' interpretive abilities. Based on this understanding, this book adopts a relatively broad standard in the selection of materials, and it can even be said to be "prioritizing quantity over quality."