A fragment of an ancient book from the Qing Dynasty, where should the specific research come from?
Anything that can be called a classic must be tempered a thousand times before it is recognized by the public. This is the reason why the so-called "quoting scriptures" is more convincing.
Needless to say, the breadth and profundity of the Chinese language is even more powerful, coupled with the blessing of poetry and songs. The Four Books and Five Classics can be called the originator of Sinology and have dominated Chinese culture for thousands of years. Among the classics, the words are beautiful, and the chapters are splendid, inheriting the unique learning of the past saints and opening a precedent for future generations.
The Book of Songs, one of the Five Classics, is the first collection of poetry in China. From today's point of view, it is inconceivable that such beautiful poetry could be born in that era when Ru Mao drank blood. On the whole, the Book of Poetry is an artistic reflection of the 500 years of social life of the Zhou Dynasty from prosperity to decline, with odes to entrepreneurship, sacred songs for sacrifices, banquets and drinks between nobles, grievances about uneven work and rest, and moving chapters reflecting labor, hunting, and a large number of love, marriage, and social customs.
The Three Character Classic, a traditional children's enlightenment book, is known as "Three Hundred Thousand" with a hundred family names and a thousand character text, and is one of the three major introductory Mongolian studies of Confucianism. The Three Character Classic was born in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the version has been increased from generation to generation, and the content has been extended to the later period, and its length is short and concise, catchy, and has been a household name for thousands of years. It covers history, astronomy, geography, morality, and folklore. The so-called "familiar with the "Three Character Classic", you can know the eternal things". The Three Character Classic can be used as an enlightenment book for children throughout the ages, and it is a wise choice of the ancients. For most of its contents, the Sanzijing remains an excellent enlightenment read to this day.
The Book of Poetry and the Book of Three Characters are both titled as "classics", indicating the commanding role of their cultural status. There are many originals, annotations, and detailed explanations of the Book of Poetry and the Book of Three Characters in ancient books, which shows that there is a great demand for its inheritance. But the version of the Book of Poetry and the Three Character Classic, which is a bit maverick.
The two are one, the real buy one get one free, which is also a portrayal of the ancients who were good at management. This method is called "overprinting" in the printing of ancient books, but the overprinting of the two classics together is really fresh.
The description of this paragraph in the Three Character Classics of later generations is basically "Qing Shizu, Ying Jing Ming, Jing Sifang, Ke Dading, by Kang Yong, Li Qianjia." The people are safe and prosperous, and the performance ......is boastful"Therefore, from this point of view, Taizu's initial determination of the Qing Dynasty is the time when this version of the Three Character Classic was written, which seems to be relatively certain.
However, when we turn to another page of the book, another common problem that is common in ancient book editions arises, and that is "evasion". If the book is now the same as the name of the current dynasty or the previous emperor, you must choose the missing pen or change the word to avoid it.
In this page's "From Descendants to Xuanzeng", "Xuan" has an obvious lack of pen, which can be seenThe publication of this book should be postponed at least to after the Kangxi Dynasty, because only Kangxi appeared, the word "Xuan" was treated as missing a pen to avoid Kangxi's name "Xuanye".
Although the book was written after the middle of the Qing Dynasty, from the historical description, it still did not reach the end of the Qing Dynasty. Another possibility is that this version was engraved during the Kangqian period of the Qing Dynasty, and was reprinted after being reprinted by later generations. This kind of reproduction is also common in the printing of ancient books. However, from the point of view of the purpose of the book, if the content has changed (the content of the Three Character Sutra changes with the times), it is also somewhat unreasonable to use the past version to print the book and use it today.
It is also likely that this edition was a movable type printing edition. Looking at the following engraving of the word "to", it is obviously different from other fonts and positions, and the ink color of "remembering things" under it is much heavier. In this way, it is believed that a new modification or a new block has been used, which is a partial correction that can only be achieved with movable type printing.
Of course, in view of the limited time and ability, the above points are only preliminary judgments for this version, and further research still needs to be improved and strengthened. However, one thing is clear, the study of ancient books is a test of collation experience and literary skills, and it requires the accumulation of time and cases. But if you enjoy it, you will definitely achieve satisfying results, and if you accidentally come across a rare version, it will be enough for you to brag about it for a lifetime.
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