Guzhu Shi Yi, Guzhu Yu Lun

Author: Sun Yirang (Qing Dynasty)
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Publication Date: 2005-01-01
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 by the courtesy name Zhongrong and the sobriquet Zhuoxiang. He was from Rui'an, Zhejiang. These works focus on the interpretation of inscriptions on Shang and Zhou bronze vessels. Gu Zhu Shi Yi was completed in the eleventh year of the Tongzhi reign (1872), revised and re-edited by Sun in the fourteenth year of the Guangxu reign (1888), and published in Wenzhou in the sixteenth year of the Guangxu reign (1890). The book consists of three volumes. The first volume selects and interprets fourteen inscriptions from bronze vessels engraved by Song Xue Shanggong in Lidai Zhongding Yiqi Kuozhan Fantie. The second and third volumes, respectively, select and interpret thirty inscriptions from Jigu Zhai Zhongding Yiqi Kuozhan by Ruan Yuan and twenty-two inscriptions from Yunqing Gu Wen by Wu Rongguang. Gu Zhu Yu Lun was completed in the twenty-ninth year of the Guangxu reign (1903), but was not published during Sun’s lifetime. In 1926, Rong Geng used a manuscript obtained by Wang Guowei to commission the publication of the book by the Institute of Chinese Studies at Peking University, adding over 500 corrections himself. Later, Dai Jiaxiang discovered three more manuscripts by Sun and added over 1,000 more corrections. The book was finally published in 1929. Originally divided into two volumes, it interprets one hundred and five important inscriptions from bronze vessels engraved by Wu Shifen in Hugu Lu Jin Wen. When Rong Geng edited the book, he divided it into three volumes to correspond with the volume numbering of Hugu Lu Jin Wen.