1. The Journey to the West of People's Literature Publishing House has been published in the third edition. Let's talk about the progress and mistakes of the newly published third edition on the basis of the paperback popular edition I have at hand.
the first edition was the 1st edition in Beijing in February 1955, and the 16th edition in Liaoning in November 1973, with three volumes of * * *. The cover is light green, simple and elegant, and the title is inscribed by Shen Yinmo, a famous calligrapher. This title is still used in the second and third editions (this edition is also used by The Journey to the West in many editions of Shanghai ancient books).
2. The second edition was revised and published in May 198. I have two kinds at hand: the yellow edition and the green edition, both of which are three volumes.
the yellow cover edition is a second edition with a brush, and there are woodcut illustrations drawn by Gu Gan on the cover and in front of the book, which are vivid and vivid like ink, but the number is too small. The yellow edition is printed in Beijing, Shanghai, Xinjiang, Hubei and other places. There is little difference in the printing quality of the text, but the illustration quality is uneven. As shown below, the left is printed in Shanghai, with dark ink and clear picture, and the background color of the picture is yellow, which is relatively simple and restored. The picture on the right shows Xinjiang printing, with light ink color and poor image quality, and the background color of the picture is white and distorted.
The green cover version is a second edition with two brushes, and the illustrations are replaced by a few color pictures drawn by Li Shaowen. The background is mostly rendered in brown and antique, and the figures are freehand and impressive.
The cover colors of the upper and lower volumes of the third edition are blue, the classical Xiu Xiang of the cover body is the same as that of the second edition of the green cover, and the cover typesetting is also roughly the same.
3. The preface of The Journey to the West, the third edition of People's Literature Publishing House
mainly introduces the romantic features of this book, the process of its completion, the artistic achievements of the work, the positive significance and limitations of the work, etc. The preface of the second edition of the Yellow Book and the Green Book is also slightly different. The preface of the Yellow Book is roughly the same as that of the first edition, with a slight increase or decrease. The preface of the green edition is closer to the third edition, and it is worth mentioning that the yellow edition mistakenly writes "Zhu Houzhao" of Ming Wuzong as "Zhu Xiaozhao".
Ming Shizong's "Zhu Hou _" was wrongly written as "Zhu Xiao _". Generally speaking, the preface of the third edition is only a small amount of embellishment, and the later edition reduces and weakens some characteristics of the times, and the obvious words such as "adopting the scientific attitude of Marxism revolution" are less. Extended information
The Journey to the West, the third edition of People's Literature Publishing House, still retains some inappropriate places in the old edition, but also adds many errors. The style of proofreading rules has not been unified, and there are many schools with one word (word). For example, the original version of "Zhong Nanshan" has been proofread to "Zhong Nanshan" and "Zhong Nanshan", and it is most regrettable that there are some low-level mistakes in spelling.
Even the changes made with Mr. Li's collating results are debatable, and even corrected as mistakes. For example, in the forty-ninth edition, "Tumu" was changed to "Mumu" from the first edition and the second edition (see "Changing" Tumu "to" Mumu ",People's Literature Publishing House is really wrong in this proofreading, with a link attached). Dr. He has sorted out a lot one after another, and we will discuss it in another article due to space limitations.