As a new form of poetry, Ci began in Sui and Tang Dynasties and reached its peak in Song Dynasty. There are more than 1,000 people and 20,000 poems written by Tang Guizhang in the whole Song Dynasty. Recently, it has been supplemented one after another (for example, Mr. Kong's "Complete Song Poetry Supplement" and so on. Although many ci poems were lost because they were not recognized as "orthodox" literature at the beginning, the results collected so far are enough to reflect the prosperity and richness of song ci poems.
There are a large number of Song Ci poems. The Song Ci poems edited by the chief editor and the Supplement to Song Ci poems edited by Kong have collected more than 20,800 works, which can be tested by more than 430 people.
In terms of quantity, the number of poets and works in Song Dynasty surpassed that in Tang Dynasty. There are 38 12 poets recorded in Li E's Song Miscellaneous Poems in Qing Dynasty, and the number of works is not counted. The number of works by several great poets alone is enough to illustrate the great creation of the Song Dynasty: there are more than 2,800 poems by Mei, more than 4,200 by Su Shi, more than 4,000 by Yang Wanli and more than 9,300 by Lu You.
Song poetry and Song creation are very rich. Poets come forth in large numbers, and great poets have written more than 10 thousand poems in their lives. It is said that Yang Wanli wrote 20,000 poems in his life, and Lu You has more than 9,000 poems today. Coupled with the developed printing industry and convenient engraving in Song Dynasty, a large number of poems appeared. There are nearly 600 poets in the history of Song Dynasty, and the records are incomplete. However, many have been lost. Even famous writers such as Yan Shu and You Mao don't inherit their own collections, only the collections of Qing people are lost. There are about 400 kinds of poems and songs of Song people in Sikuquanshu, among which there are many lost books. During Chenghua and Hongzhi in Ming Dynasty, some Song people's collections were re-engraved. Today, most of the collections of poets in the Ming Dynasty were carved in this period. The serious loss of poetry collections in Song Dynasty is related to the rejection of Song poetry in the middle of Ming Dynasty.
Poetry and prose collections in the Song Dynasty began to attract attention in the late Ming Dynasty. Pan edited 43 poems in Song and Yuan Dynasties, including 26 poems in Song Dynasty. Cao Xuequan's Selected Poems of Past Dynasties has 506 volumes, of which Song Poetry 107 volume. Qijiage also carved some Song poems.
At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, many poets liked to learn Song poetry, and collecting and sorting it once became a fashion: ① Re-engraving the poems of Song people. Some descendants or fellow villagers of the Song Dynasty poets have reprinted the Ming edition, and the poems of the Song Dynasty have been published and circulated. 2 preparation. Such as the legacy of Yan and the legacy of Liangxi. The librarian of Sikuquanshu learned that there are 140 kinds of Song Dynasty poems, which is a huge collection. ③ Catalogue collection. Since the late Ming Dynasty, such as Pan's Forty-three Poems of Song and Yuan Dynasties. In the early Qing dynasty, it was carried out on a large scale. For example, the Song and Yuan Poetry Society in Chen Chao selected 497 songs. Chen? There is "Selected Poems of Fifteen Poets in Song Dynasty". Wu Zhizhen listed 100 notes of the Song Dynasty, of which 16 were not engraved. Cao Tingdong's Hundred Poems in Song Dynasty also lists 100, which is not repeated with the above two.
Li E's Chronicle of Song Poetry is a book between the collection and the poetry talk. It selected and recorded the Song poems commented on Yi, and collected 38 12 volumes, which is very rich. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was difficult for Lu Xinyuan to compile A Supplement to the Chronology of Song Poetry. The Chronicle of the Song Dynasty has increased by about 3,000. 4 bibliophiles collect. In the early Qing Dynasty, some bibliophiles attached great importance to the collection of poems and poems of Song people, such as Ji's Bibliography of Song and Yuan Dynasties, Zhu's Bibliography of Jieyi Records of Song and Yuan Dynasties, Zhu Yizun's Bibliography of Qiancaitang Song and Yuan Dynasties, and Lu Qiqing's Bibliography of Jiaxutang (most of the books are now missing). These bibliophiles made certain contributions to the collection and arrangement of Song poetry at that time.