There are more than 3,400 authors involved in the collection of poems and essays in the Qing Dynasty. Judging from the author's identity, there are emperors, imperial clan, Eight Banners, ministers, governors, monks, businessmen, craftsmen, revolutionaries, painters, novelists, playwrights, scientists, and more ordinary scholars. As far as the gender of authors is concerned, of course, male authors account for the vast majority, but there are also many female authors. According to the author's geographical view, it can be said that it is widely distributed in the southeast, northwest and central plains. From the perspective of the author's age, it lasted more than 300 years from the end of Ming Dynasty to the Republic of China, including all the writers and works that occupied a certain position in the fields of politics, economy, military affairs, nationality, thought, academics, culture and art in the Qing Dynasty.
The editor of the Collection of Poems in Qing Dynasty wrote a short biography for the author of each collection, and attached the frontispiece of the book. Each biography lists the author's name, name, native place, official, etc. , describes his life story, major achievements and important works, with a brief comment.
The Qing Dynasty Poetry Collection is also insightful in edition selection. Based on the principle of completeness, precision and goodness, the editor pays attention to the whole page, and on the basis of perfection, further refines and strives for perfection, focusing on the first edition, the original edition, the second edition, the second edition and the second edition, and pays attention to collecting supplementary versions of future generations. At the same time, try to find rare books, unique books, manuscripts and manuscripts. In order to preserve the original appearance of the document and make it easier for readers to understand, each collection of poems and essays is photocopied in the original, and the version and collection number are indicated; Most of them are photocopies for the first time.
The contents of poetry and prose collections in the Qing Dynasty reflect the overall appearance and development of social history in the Qing Dynasty for hundreds of years. Whether it is the vicissitudes of the previous generation, the peace and prosperity in the middle period, or the social changes since the late Qing Dynasty, they have left a distinct mark of the times in the poems of the Qing people. For example, the bleak style of poetry and prose in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, the colorful genre of works in the prosperous times and the unconventional literati in modern times all reflected the characteristics of the times of poetry and prose creation at that time and the social outlook in a specific historical stage. Take the poems in the middle of Qing Dynasty as an example. With the emergence of prosperous times, poetry creation in Qing Dynasty also entered a prosperous period. In terms of poetry, as for genre, there are Wang Shizhen's verve school, Shen Deqian's style school, Weng Fanggang's texture school and Yuan Mei's spirituality school, which are one after another, leading the way; On the subject matter, there are landscape poems, pastoral poems, frontier poems, love poems, poems about people, ancient poems about events, poems about history, lyric poems, chronological poems, chorus poems, poems about poems and so on. , competing for beauty; Genre, five words and seven words, quatrains, ancient poems and modern poems are all prepared, each doing its own extreme; As far as the author is concerned, in addition to the dominant Han literati, the Eight Banners writers have sprung up everywhere, the imperial poems have their own system, and the female poets have also made some achievements. In terms of articles, parallel prose flourished, with many authors, and the famous parallel prose master appeared in Wang. Prose is the formal formation and development of Tongcheng School, which has become the most powerful, lasting and influential literary school in Qing Dynasty. His poetic works, schools, authors and achievements are comparable to those of Tang and Song Dynasties, and also reflect the characteristics of literary creation in the previous generation of Qing Dynasty.
The arrangement, photocopying and publication of the Collection of Poetry and Prose in Qing Dynasty will certainly play a positive role in promoting the research in the fields of society, history, thought, culture, literature and art in Qing Dynasty.