Whole Yuan Wen (60)

Author: Li Xiusheng
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Publishing Date: 2004-12-01
Features: This book aims to collect Han Chinese single-paragraph prose, parallel prose, and rhymed literature (such as poetry, qu and ci) from the Yuan Dynasty, excluding other forms of rhymed literature. The time frame for the writers included in this book is generally based on the Jin Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty. Writers from the original Jin territory are included up to the year 1234 (the third year of the reign of Jin Aizong), while those from the original Southern Song territory are included up to the year 1279 (the second year of the Xiangxing era of the Southern Song). The lower limit is set at the year 1368 (the twenty-eighth year of the Zhiheng era of the Yuan Dynasty). Writers who entered the Yuan Dynasty from the Jin or Song Dynasties, or from the Yuan Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, and whose main activities took place during the Yuan Dynasty, are included as Yuan writers. This book follows the principle of "letting the text follow the author," meaning that all works of the writers already included are collected regardless of whether they were written during the Yuan Dynasty. For the Confucian classics, history, philosophy, and other works of Yuan scholars, this book generally only includes prefaces, postfaces, and single-paragraph Yuan texts cited within the works. However, collections that can be considered anthologies, such as memorial essays, historical commentaries, and legal judgments in the history section, or inscriptions and annotations in the philosophy section, are still included as anthologies. For the convenience of readers, this book is compiled in the traditional style, with each volume containing approximately 10,000 words of text. Writers with more works are divided into multiple volumes, while those with fewer works are grouped together in one volume. The Yuan texts included in this book are based on the best and most complete editions available, and the main text follows the original edition. If the original edition contains errors, they are corrected and annotated. For minor discrepancies, annotations are not provided. Annotations are appended at the end of each text. Small errors in stroke order that are clearly due to printing mistakes are corrected. Each writer included in this book has a short biography, which provides a brief introduction to their name, courtesy name, title, posthumous name, birth and death years, place of origin, official career, main activities, writings, and the status of their works included in this book, along with the sources of the historical materials used. To facilitate readers' reference, in addition to the index of each volume, the book also includes appendices such as the "Author Index of Complete Yuan Texts," the "Title Index of Complete Yuan Texts," and the "Bibliography of Works Cited Outside of Anthologies."