Detailed Notes on Collectors' Records is a four-volume book with notes on Collectors' Records written by Bai, a Taoist priest of Baiyun Temple in Beijing in the late Ming Dynasty. Bai Zi Zi Qing, No.,was born in Shangyuan (now Nanjing, Jiangsu). The Catalogue of Collected Taoist Scriptures is compiled in different categories according to the style of compiling Collected Taoist Scriptures by Zhang Junfang in the Northern Song Dynasty. The total content is divided into three categories: three caves, four auxiliary categories and twelve categories. Volume one is the True Department, volume two is the Metaphysics Department, volume three is the Theology Department (each volume is divided into twelve categories), and volume four is the Metaphysics Department, Taiping Department, Taiqing Department and Zhengyi Department. The first category is recorded, followed by the font size of Ganziwen and the rewriting times of each font size, followed by the title, the number of original volumes and the rewriting times of Daozang. If several Taoist books are merged into one volume, please indicate it below the last volume. Symbols, pictures and images are also marked under the title. Or the author, slightly black leader; Or extract the preface of the original book, or add simple notes. As for the authors of books, most of them rely on the collection of book titles without textual research, and occasionally there are no collection of book titles recorded in the detailed notes. However, some books "Taoist Collection" are named by the author, but the "Detailed Notes" are not recorded. Or the book is called Detailed Notes, which is actually a brief note. It only records the titles, volumes and font sizes of many Taoist books, and there are no annotations, even if there are annotations, most of them are very brief. This book is included in the Xu Shichang Agricultural Museum Jinwen Museum Siku Quanshu, the Taiwan Province Provincial Commercial Press Siku Quanshu, the Beijing Cultural Relics Publishing House, the Shanghai Bookstore, and the Tianjin Ancient Books Publishing House. The text of the latter is accompanied by three articles: the source of Taoism, general examples and the general catalogue of Taoism. In the Qing Dynasty, the four volumes of Detailed Notes on the Catalogue of Collected Taoist Scriptures were inscribed "Detailed Notes on Zuo Li Jieruo in Liao Dynasty", but the abstract was written by Bai, a Taoist priest in Ming Dynasty. This edition is in the order of Fan Fan, General Catalogue of Taoist Collection, Origin of Taoist School and Records of Reconstruction of Taoist Collection in Baiyun Temple, and the number of volumes and annotations are roughly the same as those in previous editions.
Bai: For the Detailed Notes on the Catalogue of Taoist Collectors, see Book 36 of Taoist Collectors.