"Explanation of Vocabulary in Poetry, Ci and Music" is a book explaining common terms in poetry, Ci and music. The shortcomings of the whole book are that some meanings are complicated to distinguish, and the pronunciation of some terms and words with the same words but different pronunciations is not marked, which is a fly in the ointment.
Background
A book explaining common expressions in poetry and music. Written by Zhang Xiang. Zhang Xiang is proficient in literature and history, and is especially skilled in poetry, lyrics and music. This book consists of 6 volumes and collects special words commonly used in poetry and music of the Tang, Song, Jin, Yuan and Ming dynasties, such as "Xu", "Ze", "Que", "Qie", "Zhen", "Si", "Jie Dao", "Hesheng", "Zexi", "Jiandi", "Duande", "Wuzi", etc., add detailed citations to explain their meaning and usage. Most of these common terms were popular spoken language at that time in history, or found in poetry, lyrics, music, or drama legends. There has never been a special book to explain it, and a word does not necessarily have only one meaning. To understand it accurately, it is necessary to It is necessary to comprehensively review various poetry and opera works, explore their literary meaning, speculate on their tone, and search for their true meaning. If you want to find an explanation, you must be able to apply it to each chapter without any hindrance. This is not an easy task. The author of this book spent 8 years concentrating on this work to complete the book, with heading 537 and more than 600 appendices. This has made a great contribution to the study of literary works since the Tang Dynasty. Prior to this, Li Jinxi had taught a course on "Modern Language Studies" at Beijing Normal University, but unfortunately no book has been left behind.
Main content
In the preface written at the beginning of this work, Zhang Xiang talked about his process of exploring the meaning of words: first, understanding the pronunciation and rhyme, second, identifying the glyphs, and third, The fourth step is to figure out the plot, and the fifth step is to compare and contrast the meaning. The comparative meaning is compared with each other through several methods such as opposite meanings, synonymous intertextuality, contextual correspondence, omission of text, and corroboration of different texts. This is better than Liu Qi's "Zhuzi Bianlue" in the Qing Dynasty in studying word meanings. >, Wang Yinzhi's "Explanation of Classics" is more meticulous. Many modern people who study the meanings of modern Chinese words are more or less inspired by it. The shortcomings of the whole book are that some meanings are complicated to distinguish, and some words and words with the same words but different pronunciations are not marked with pronunciation, which is a fly in the ointment. This book was published by Zhonghua Book Company in 1952 after the death of the author.