The Diary of Master Zhu Jing ( Eight Joy Studio Notes)

Author: Qian Daixin of the Qing Dynasty
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Publishing Date: 2006-08-10
Features: After the title "Shi Ming" (Explanation of Names): According to Chen Shou's "Wu Zhi," it is known that he fled to Jiaozhou and should not be mistaken for an early Wei person. Song Shengren showed the original edition of "Yu Hai," with a handwritten note by the Yunxi Elder at the beginning and a seal of Fan Qingzhi at the end, indicating he was from Songjiang. It contains pages added in the first and second years of the Zhengde era, suggesting it is an edition printed during the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, yet still rare. Someone asked, "What makes ancient studies difficult?" The answer was, "Not to make mistakes." Then asked, "Not to omit anything." This quote is found in "Qianqiu Zhaaji." However, not making mistakes is not as easy as it sounds. Even in terms of geography, Mei Chong's "Guantao Qujiang" (Watching Waves at Qujiang) is acceptable if he does not follow the "Zhoujun Zhi" in the "Nanqi Shu" or Shan Qianzhi's "Nanzhou Province Records" and insists on Zhejiang. But to say that the Yixi County was merged into Jiangdu Kingdom at that time and that he originally wanted to say "Qujiang in Jiangdu" but changed it to "Geling" because the characters "Erjiang" conflicted—could this not be extreme speculation? Moreover, examining the records shows that Yixi was never part of Jiangdu, so how could it not be a mistake? To say that the name Hunan Province originated in the Yuan Dynasty, as it was originally Jinghu North Road and Jinghu South Road in the Song Dynasty, one should stick to the original name, as the character "Guang" is redundant. Examining the establishment of the Hunan-Guangdong Provincial Administration in the Yuan Dynasty, it actually included the four roads of Jinghu North and South, Guangnan East and West of the Song Dynasty, so the character "Guang" was not absent. During the Ming Dynasty, Guangdong and Guangxi were separate provinces, so there was no need to retain "Guang," yet Bai Shi did not clarify this, which is an omission. I regret that I cannot question Bai Shi directly.
"Lu Zhuangyuan Zengjie Qizhu Jingyi Zizhi Tongjian" (Lu Zhuangyuan's Enhanced Annotations and Interpretations of the Zizhi Tongjian), with the initial title "Yixi Lu Tanglao's Annotations." Volume 1 discusses methods of reading the Tongjian, explanations, repair letters, and doubts about the Tongjian; Volume 2 includes the genealogies of emperors and maps of geographical capitals; Volumes 3 to 4 contain essential chronicles; Volumes 5 to 11 summarize the annals and biographies; Volumes 12 to 18 record key events of rulers and officials; Volumes 19 to 20 include the external records of the Tongjian, from the sacrifice of the ox to the Zhou and Shang dynasties; Volumes 21 to 112 cover the Tongjian. The "Four Treasuries Catalogue" states that Lu of Yixi passed the imperial examination in the Chunxi period. According to the chronology, the Chunxi era began in the 16th year of the reign, with five imperial examinations, but there was no Lu surname who became a. The "Taiping Yuluan" was printed in movable type in the first year of the Wanli era. It has a preface by Huang Zhengse and an earlier preface by Pu Shuxian, the transport judge of Chengdu Road in the fifth year of the era. [The edition published by Bao of Yangzhou in the Jiaqing era is still exquisite.] I borrowed three incomplete of the Song Dynasty edition of the "Han Shu" from Zhou Yitang, one of which is the same as the edition obtained by Huang Yaopu, another is the same as the one collected by Wu Chake, and the third has densely printed characters, resembling the "Shiji" edition by Cai Mengbi. Each leaf has 26 lines, with 25 characters per line. At the beginning of the volume, there are no names of Ban Gu or Yan Shigu. There is also an incomplete "Later Han Shu" that resembles the edition but has many supplements from the ninth year of the Dade era and the second year of the Yuanzong era. At the end of Volume 80, there are five lines: "Fan Xian's 'Later Han Shu' consists of ninety chapters, totaling one hundred volumes: twelve volumes of imperial biographies, eighty-eight volumes of biographies. Right, issued on the twenty-fifth day of the seventh month of the fifth year of the Chunhua era, ordered to re-examine and correct."
Reading the "Jingshi Zhenglei Daguan Bencao" (31 volumes, with a directory of 1 volume). At the beginning is an by Ai Sheng, a Tongshi of Hangzhou Renhe County, written on the first day of October in the second year of the Great View era, stating: "The author's surname is Tang, but I do not know where he came from. Those who passed down the book lost his hometown, clan, and surname, so I did not record it." However, the "Zhenghe New Edition of the Jingshi Zhenglei Bencao" in my family calls the author Tang Shenwei of Chengdu, who was during the Zhenghe era. These are the differences. The Zhenghe edition was likely ordered for imperial examination and publication, while the Great View edition was printed by the Hangzhou River Transport Commission. The book's original title is "Jingshi Zhenglei Beiji Bencao," and the Song Dynasty "Arts and Literature Catalogue" lists it as "Great View Jingshi Zhenglei Beiji Bencao" (32 volumes), perhaps including the directory in the count? This title is marked as "Chungu Wang Qiu Donated Funds, Ordered His Son Dajian to..."