What is the first part of China's class catalogue?

The earliest catalogue of historical records in China is one of the ten records of Hanshu. When Ban Gu wrote Hanshu in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was the best collection of books of Ji surname and the Western Han Dynasty, which was adapted from the Seven Laws. It is divided into six arts, hundred schools of thought, poetry, art of war, mathematics and folk arts, with 38 books, 596 volumes, 13269 volumes. In Qilue, Ban Gu claimed to "delete its essence to prepare for the article" and became Hanshu Yiwenzhi. The specific method is to keep the classification system of 6 kinds and 38 kinds in Qilue. Plus the works written by Liu Xiang, Yang Xiong and Du Lin at the end of the Western Han Dynasty after the completion of the Seven Laws. The books recorded in Qilue are basically kept as they are, but the places with repeated descriptions and improper classification have been merged or moved appropriately. For example, books in a certain category are marked "out" under the total quantity; Books omitted due to repetition are marked with "province" and several articles; All books added or moved are marked as "in" several books and articles. The contents of the "Summary" in the Seven Laws are scattered after all kinds except the six laws and the law of poetry and fu. Delete the abstracts of books in bamboo slips and take notes when necessary (see Bielu and Qilue). The Records of Han Shu Literature and Art initiated the catalogue of Historical Records. After the Han Dynasty, many historical books took it as an example and compiled artistic and cultural records or historical books. As the Seven Laws have been lost, Hanshu Yiwenzhi has become the earliest existing book catalogue in China. In the Song Dynasty, Wang Yinglin wrote 10 volume of Textual Research on Hanshu, and in the Qing Dynasty, Yao Zhenzong wrote 6 volumes of Supplementary Records of Hanshu and 8 volumes of Records of Hanshu Arrangement.

Author: Liu Xin

Liu Xin (about 53 BC ~ AD 23) was born Zijun, later renamed Xiu, and his name was Ying Shu. "Biography of" Poetry "and" Book "can be attributed to the text", and he became the emperor. "The official department is Huang Menlang. In peacetime, he was entrusted by his father to pass on the Six Arts to the school secretary. All the philosophers, poems, numbers and techniques are tested. " After Liu Xiang's death, Xin Fu became a captain in Zhong Lei. Ai Di acceded to the throne, serving as a Chinese doctor, a captain, and a car doctor. Follow in his father's footsteps and continue to proofread books. After Wang Mang usurped the throne, he conspired to punish Wang Mang and committed suicide.

According to Ruan Xiaoxu's Preface to Seven Records, Liu Xin's seven views are based on his father's Bielu. Bielu is a compilation of full-text descriptions written by Liu Xiang when collating books, with a large length. "Qilue" is a relatively simple book written according to other records, so it is called "Lvlue". The preface to the Seven Records says: "There are six articles in all, so it is called Qilue, because it is slightly named after the collection, slightly named after the stage of 26, slightly named after the two philosophers, slightly named after the two poems, slightly named after the two soldiers, slightly named after the times and slightly named after the power.

The summary briefly explains the significance and academic origin of the other six strategies, and expounds the relationship between the six strategies and the use of the six strategies. It is the sum of the six strategies and all the books, which is equivalent to the outline of the whole book.

There are six kinds of books, namely the classification of books in Liu Xin at that time. Hu Yinglin's "Shao's Mountain House Pen Collection" said: "Liu Xin's …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Ban Gu's Yi Wen Zhi was added to three books, but ten books, 38 kinds, 596 articles and 33,269 volumes were preserved. Xin's original book has 33,900 volumes, but only three or four of the ten volumes. " "However, the original" Seven Laws "has twenty volumes, and the class's" Literature and Art "has only one volume, which is interesting."

Liu Xin's Seven Views has long been lost, but Ban Gu's Han Shu? Yiwenzhi deleted the synopsis of Qilue, but kept its contents, and put the general preface before the six synopsis of the synopsis, the big preface after the six synopsis, and the small preface after 38 kinds. In terms of classification, the classification system of six ellipses and thirty-eight kinds of ellipsis in the Seven Laws is retained. In the aspect of book-keeping, it basically kept the original appearance, and supplemented the works written by Liu Xiang, Yang Xiong and Du Lin after the completion of the Seven Laws in the late Western Han Dynasty. Where there are additions, deletions, mergers and classification changes in the description, Ban Gu is represented by several items such as "out", "in" and "province" to show the changes. Therefore, although Yi Wenzhi only got 0/0.34% of the shares of Qile/KLOC, he still kept his purpose and let us have a glimpse of Qile.