Original source: Liu Xiang's "New Order, Miscellaneous Work First"
Appreciation of the original text: Liu Xiang's Shuo Yuan and Xin Xu belong to a collection of historical stories.
"Shuo Yuan ***20 Volumes" revolves around 20 central ideas and carries out moral preaching and political exhortation by quoting stories. Discuss with more reference to Confucianism and clarify the reasons for the rise and fall of the country and the success or failure of politics for reference. This book preserves a large number of ancient books in the pre-Qin period, which can make up for the lack of history. The style is close to the novel, the idea is ironic, and the content is lively, which has a certain influence on later novels and folk literature creation.
The New Preface combs the activities and comments of historical figures from pre-Qin to Western Han Dynasty.
It is also a historical story to persuade the monarch, the minister and the people to save the current abuses and govern the people.
A *** 10 volume is divided into five volumes of Miscellaneous Work, 1 volume of Pricking Luxury, two volumes of Jieshi and two volumes of Good Ideas. Although the historical stories quoted are different from Zuo Zhuan and Historical Records, they are concise in wording, vivid in language and thorough in discussion. In addition, a large number of anecdotes were collected, which enabled many ancient books to be preserved.
About the author:
Liu Xiang (77- 6 BC) was a scholar, bibliographer and writer in the Western Han Dynasty. The real name has been changed and the word is correct. He was born in Pei County, Jiangsu Province. The fourth grandson of Wang () in the early Han Dynasty. The biography of Gu Liang in the Spring and Autumn Period. He used to be an exhortation doctor and Zong Zheng. Political affairs are accompanied by yin and yang disasters, and many letters have been written to illegally exert the exclusive rights of consorts. When he became emperor, he was appointed as Doctor Guanglu and eventually became the captain of Zhong Lei. He reviewed the Royal Library and wrote China's earliest bibliography, Bielu.
He wrote 33 pieces of ci and fu, including Nine Sighs, most of which have been lost. The original collection has been lost, which was compiled by Liu in Ming Dynasty. His other works, Biography of Hong Fan's Five Elements, New Preface, Shuoyuan and Biography of Lienv, still exist today. And the Five Classics Yi Tong, also lost. Qing Ma Guohan's Book of Collection of Jade Letters in Mountain Rooms.