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-A Review of Mr. Zhou Xunchu's Academic Research
Lifeng
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A major feature of modern scholarship is that the division of labor is getting finer and finer. The ranks of scholars are getting bigger and bigger, and the accumulation of academic achievements is getting richer and richer, so that scholars can only concentrate on intensive cultivation in a narrow field and achieve better results. If nothing else, just reading all the research papers published every year in your field will take a lot of time and energy. In this case, it is difficult to implement even if you want to. But in essence, academic research, especially the study of ancient literature and history, needs a broad knowledge structure and a broad academic vision. Otherwise, even in a narrow field, it is difficult to achieve real specialization. Everyone understands these principles and hopes to achieve the realm of both broadness and specialization. However, in fact, there are very few scholars who can reach this level, and Mr. Zhou Xunchu is one of them.
In 2000, Jiangsu Ancient Books Publishing House published seven volumes of Zhou Xunchu's Collected Works, including the following 16 works: A New Examination of Nine Songs, Notes of Han Feizi and Han Fei, Biography of Zhang Zhi's Literati, Analysis of Wen Xin Diao Long, A Brief History of China's Literary Criticism and Literary History. Later, Mr. Zhou also published books such as Biography of Li Bai and Aftershock Collection. In addition, Mr. Zhou has also made great achievements in document arrangement and reference book compilation, and due to space limitations, he was not included in Selected Works. Among them, Mr. Zhou organized academic colleagues to compile a large dictionary of Tang poems, a collection of anecdotes of Tang people and other large-scale reference books widely praised by the academic community, as well as the revision of Yuan Gui, a large-scale ancient book with16 million words. Although these books have been well-known, Mr. Zhou's hard work has permeated the whole book from the beginning to the examination and approval of the whole draft. As for other books compiled by Mr. Zhou alone, they are all research monographs with high academic value, such as Tang Yulin's Collation Certificate, which is regarded as a well-deserved good book (in the words of Mr. Zhao Shouyan). Looking at the above titles, we can see that Mr. Zhou's academic scope is very extensive. In terms of time, from pre-Qin, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties to modern times; From the perspective of discipline, it involves philology, history, literature and other disciplines. If subdivided, it includes Chu Ci, Zhuzi, Spectrum Spy, Literature History, Literature Criticism History, Academic History and other branches. Mr. Bian praised Mr. Zhou for "the combination of professionalism and communication is unique and commendable", which is not empty talk.
So, how did Mr. Zhou Xunchu achieve such excellent results? Did he get particularly superior learning conditions? Not exactly. Like most contemporary scholars, Mr. Zhou's academic path is quite bumpy. 1954 graduated from Nanjing University and was assigned to work in China Language Reform Commission. /kloc-returned to his alma mater to study for an associate doctor at the end of 0/956, and stayed as a teacher before graduation. Since then, the political movement has become higher and higher, and the university campus is as noisy and turbulent as the whole society. By the time the education and academic circles basically returned to normal in the 1980s, Mr. Zhou was over 50 years old. Mr. Zhou recalled in the preface to the collection of inaction: "The first half of my life was at the mercy of others, and my whole life was spent in various' revolutionary' actions." It can be said that it is generous. Even in the new era, Mr. Zhou failed to devote himself to academic research. He has served as director of the Institute of Classical Literature of Nanjing University, vice president of the Graduate School of Nantah and many other social part-time jobs. He is not only busy teaching and educating people, but also spends a lot of time and energy on discipline construction and social work. It can be said that Mr. Zhou didn't get the special favor of fate, so he became an expert and an expert scholar because of his unremitting efforts.
Mr. Zhou Xunchu is calm and quiet, and his way of doing things is meticulous and thorough. When I was studying in Nanjing University, I studied under famous scholars such as Hu Xiaoshi, Luo Genze, Chen Zhongfan, Wang Bijiang, Fang Guangtao and Zhang Shilu, and laid a solid academic foundation in textual research and exegesis (including Oracle Bone Inscriptions and inscriptions), bibliography, literature history, literature and art, etc. Due to the change of objective conditions, Mr. Zhou's later academic research is often intermittent and often passively changes the research direction. But the solid foundation laid in the early days enabled him to reach both ends, thus constantly writing high-level works. For example, when he was in college, he once listened to a lecture given by Mr. Hu Xiaoshi, a famous poet of Chu Ci, and listened to this lesson again for graduate students, and he had some ideas about the pre-Qin myths involved in Chu Ci. However, before the graduate student graduated, the department asked him to drop out of school and immediately take the course of literary criticism history. At that time, teachers and students in universities were afraid to touch the edge of the "white road" and avoid academic writing. However, considering that he was about to turn to the history of authoritarian criticism, Mr. Zhou took time to write the book "A New Examination of Nine Songs". This book is Mr. Zhou's first academic monograph, which was published after more than 20 years of writing. However, it not only leveled the pavilion and investigated the origin of the mirror, but also put forward many new ideas in demonstrating the gods mentioned in Nine Songs, which reached a high academic level, indicating that Mr. Zhou's writings had a high starting point from the beginning. Another example is that during the Cultural Revolution, many scholars were forced to participate in the annotation and criticism of the so-called "legalist works". At that time, many books were published, but times have changed and not many books have become works of academic value. At that time, Mr. Zhou participated in the compilation of the New Notes of Han Feizi undertaken by Nanjing University. However, he turned this fun political task into a serious academic activity. He not only took the opportunity to be familiar with Han Feizi, but also extensively dabbled in pre-Qin philosophers and deeply thought about some problems in Han Feizi, thus writing Han Feizi's Note. It is this dedication to self-improvement that makes Mr. Zhou make extraordinary achievements in the same situation as ordinary people, thus standing out and becoming a famous scholar in the field of ancient literature and history research.
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Solid basic skills and diligent academic spirit are necessary conditions for an excellent scholar, but they are not sufficient conditions. In the field of ancient literature and history, it is not uncommon for scholars who are born under famous teachers to be diligent and eager to learn, but few scholars like Mr. Zhou Xunchu can make outstanding achievements in various research fields. What is the reason? I think the mystery can only be found from Mr. Zhou's academic research itself.
Mr. Zhou strictly abides by academic norms, and has a deep understanding of the academic origins of the Ganjia School since the Qing Dynasty, and knows the similarities and differences and shortcomings of various schools. In Song Dynasty, Huang Tingjian praised "Reading is like controlling water, knowing the network of the world" (Answering Books), and Mr. Zhou's mastery of academic origins also has this characteristic. Mr. Zhou once taught a course called Research on Modern Scholars' Research Methods to graduate students of Nanjing University. He selected several representative works of Wang Guowei and Chen from modern scholars as teaching materials, analyzed their methodological characteristics in detail, and pointed out the way for students to learn. He also wrote articles summarizing and analyzing the academic characteristics of Huang Kan, Chen Yinque, Luo Genze and Cheng. Mr. Zhou later compiled these lectures and articles into a book, Speculation on Contemporary Academic Research, which was published in 1993, was warmly welcomed and adopted by many brother universities as graduate teaching materials. In fact, Mr. Zhou's understanding and mastery of academic origins is not limited to this book. When Mr. Zhou chats with us on weekdays, he often talks about anecdotes of modern scholars with great interest, and knows Miao, Shen, Chen, Li Ruiqing and others like the palm of his hand. However, Mr. Zhou's methodology is not limited to this. He is also very familiar with the influence of western thoughts on modern learning. He once wrote a book "The Spread of Western Learning to the East and the Study of China Ancient Literature" for analysis. He is also very concerned about the progress of contemporary overseas sinology and keeps close contact with many famous foreign sinologists. Because of this, Mr. Zhou can learn from many teachers in methodology, so as to learn from each other's strong points and form his own academic path.
Mr. Zhou believes that reading the basic classics is a necessary prerequisite for academic research. I often hear him say that a certain senior is really familiar with a book. In fact, he himself has read many basic classics, and he has almost mastered the basic literature in his research field. Of course, the books that anyone can read are always limited, and it is even more impossible for a scholar with a wide range of research fields like Mr. Zhou to exhaust all relevant documents. So Mr. Zhou adopted the effective method of predecessors, that is, starting with bibliography. Before he wrote his first monograph, A New Examination of Nine Songs, he thoroughly grasped the academic status of the study of Nine Songs according to the Bibliography of Songs of Chu attached to Zong Rao's Records of Songs of Chu. When he was engaged in the study of Han Feizi, he also consulted many related bibliographies, made an in-depth investigation on the origin of Han Feizi's edition, and wrote the article Han Feizi Edition, and then began to study its text. Mr. Zhou also wrote the bibliography himself. For example, The Dictionary of Tang Poetry published by 1990 has an appendix, a summary of Tang poetry literature, written by Mr. Zhou, the editor-in-chief. There are a vast number of Tang poems, but in this 50,000-word abstract, Mr. Zhou gave a very comprehensive introduction to these documents, which are divided into three categories: anthology, historical biography, novel, spectrum spy, epitaph, wall record, Deng Keji, bibliography, poetry talk, art and literature, geography, political canon, Taoist book, etc. 13, not only discussing the nature and background of each category of documents. This is why Mr. Zhou took it out of the Dictionary of Tang Poetry and made it an independent article. However, the academic significance of bibliography is not limited to providing bibliographies, but also has greater academic significance, that is, "distinguishing chapters and examining the original" (Zhang Xuecheng's words), and Mr. Zhou also used bibliography in this sense. Mr. Zhou described his experience in the Postscript of Textual Research on Notebook Novels of Tang Dynasty: "My research method is to start with bibliography, put the Notebook Novels of Tang Dynasty in the torrent of academic history, and then examine them in the context of Tang culture, and discuss their relationship and influence with other literary categories in combination with political, historical and religious factors." Indeed, if we don't start with bibliography and deeply understand its deep academic significance, it is difficult to have such a broad academic vision and have such a clear grasp of academic origins.
Mr. Zhou's academic research is multi-level. Although he has a strong speculative ability, he never despises the basic work such as literature research and interpretation, and takes literature collation as the first step of academic research. His "Bibliography and Comprehensive Research" discusses the importance of document arrangement: "A professional ancient literature researcher should know more about this aspect in order to skillfully and properly deal with various problems encountered in research work." "Only those who have a deep foundation in philology can master and use the most appropriate and reliable materials for research, so as to draw credible conclusions." In this regard, Mr. Zhou's "Tang Yulin School Certificate" is a typical achievement. Although Tang Yulin is the notes of Wang Shu, a poet of the Song Dynasty, its materials are mostly taken from the works of the Tang Dynasty, which is an indispensable note for studying the literature and history of the Tang Dynasty. Although there are 50 kinds of bibliographies quoted in The Original Preface of Tang Yulin, the source is not indicated in the text, and all kinds of confusion and loss in compilation and circulation make the source of the book unknown, which makes it difficult to distinguish between true and false, and the errors in the text are endless, which is very inconvenient to use. Mr. Zhou commented on Tang Yulin, saying, "First, it is a very good book with valuable information. Those who study the literature and history of the Tang Dynasty must take this as a reference. Second, it's a terrible book. It's too messy. It is difficult to finish reading. " It can be described as hitting the nail on the head. In this case, Mr. Zhou accepted the task arranged by Zhonghua Book Company. Does he really know that there are tigers in the mountains, or does he prefer to go up the mountains, which vividly embodies Mr. Zhou's spirit of making more contributions to the academic world regardless of fame and fortune. Mr. Zhou has made great efforts to organize it, which is really difficult for outsiders to be humane. At first, he sorted out Tang Yulin's words, not only collected various versions of the book, but also used a lot of circumstantial materials such as general collections, special collections, similar books and notes to compare them, thus sorting out more credible texts. So he traced back to the source, found out the source of each article as much as possible, compared the similarities and differences with the original books or similar books that quoted this article in later generations, and sorted out more than 20 lost articles. He also explained the difficult Tang idioms, puns and obscure allusions in the book to help readers understand the original text. He also wrote the abstracts of cited books, compiled the index of cited books and the index of names. After several years of hard work, a reliable version, clear source and accurate interpretation of Tang Yulin's School Certificate appeared on the desks of scholars. This book has been highly praised by famous scholars such as Zhao Shouyan, Cheng Yizhong, Wang Guoliang, etc., and even China Literature magazine in the United States has made a short comment and praised it (No.1 1), and it really deserves its reputation. Mr. Zhou personally wrote the article "Understanding of the Arrangement of Notebook Novels in Tang Dynasty" for this book, which not only explained his hardships, but also pointed out the correct methods and attitudes for the later research on the arrangement of ancient books.
Most of the ancient books compiled by Mr. Zhou have reached a high academic level. For example, Notes on Selected Works of Tang Chao, published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House in 2000, was copied by Mr. Zhou while giving lectures in Japan, and was finally compiled after many visits. Mr. Zhou also wrote a long preface for this book, introducing the story and characteristics of this book. Mr. Xu Yimin praised this book as "a milestone in the history of the development of newly selected studies", which can prove its high academic value. Another example is The Legend of the Tang Dynasty edited by Mr. Zhou. Although its originality is to imitate the Records of Song People, it is a detailed and reliable reference book in terms of perfect style, meticulous editing, rich materials and accurate source. In 2006, Phoenix Publishing House published Yuan Gui (Revised Edition), which was a large-scale collation of ancient books led by Mr. Zhou Xunchu. Yuan Gui, a Bookstore, is voluminous and the original text is not marked, so it is very difficult to sort out and revise it. Mr. Zhou made strict, detailed and feasible regulations for the revision of the book, and gave careful guidance to the participants in the actual revision work, and devoted a lot of effort. After ten years' efforts, the book was finally published, and won the first "China Publishing Government Award", which became a landmark achievement in the collation of large-scale ancient books. It can be said that Mr. Zhou's work in bibliography, collation of ancient books and compilation of reference books not only laid a solid literature foundation for his entire academic career, but also achieved high academic value, which is Mr. Zhou's selfless dedication to the academic field.
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The more commendable advantage of Mr. Zhou's academic research is that he can learn from others and be eclectic. The former is mainly reflected in his ability to integrate different disciplines and different times. The latter is mainly reflected in the fact that his research is an empirical study to solve specific problems, and every book and article can be implemented. These two points can be summarized by "focusing on the overall situation and taking details as the pen".
Mr. Zhou's academic vision is broad, and his research has broken some boundaries of today's academic habits, putting the research objects of different disciplines and different periods together for unified observation, so as to achieve the realm of mastery. Nowadays, scholars often focus on a certain period, or a certain style, or even a certain writer or a certain work. However, it is difficult for us to tell which period or style Mr. Zhou studied, let alone which writer or even which book he specialized in. In terms of time, Mr. Zhou is at least an expert in the study of literary history or academic history in pre-Qin, Han, Wei and Six Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, Qing Dynasty and modern times. Stylistically speaking, Mr. Zhou is at least an expert in Chuci, philosophers, ancient prose, poetry, note novels and so on. Needless to say, his research actually spans literature and history, and the methods used in the research also involve mythology, anthropology, folklore, religion and other related disciplines, and he often combines several methods to solve problems better. Wang Chong, a Han Chinese, said, "Those who know the past and the present are experts." On the importance of communication, I said, "All rivers run into the sea, hence the name." ? My wife has a hundred words, and she is still like Hai Huai. "("Lun Heng Bietong ") The word tong has two academic meanings. One refers to a wide range of knowledge. "Yi Cohesion" said, "Everything is composed but not left behind, and it is known by the way of day and night." Kong said, "They are familiar with the way of seclusion, but they don't know anything. "The second is to be familiar with the way things change. The Book of Changes says: "What you know is called an industry, and what you know is called a thing." Kong said, "The situation is extremely bad. If you want them to be open, you should be aware of their changes, but it is also feasible. "It is precisely because of this spirit of" communication "that runs through Mr. Zhou's academic research that he can reach the realm of making the past serve the present and profoundly grasp the origin and evolution of ancient and modern academics.
There are two obvious manifestations of Mr. Zhou's academic research. First, his academic research is very extensive, which has been covered above, so I won't repeat it here. Second, his academic research often reflects Hong Tong's vision, which is not only broad in vision, but also clear in context and truly consistent. In Mr. Zhou's mind, the history of literature and academic history are a whole, and he has a comprehensive grasp of them. For example, his book A Brief History of China's Literary Criticism shows the history of China's literary criticism for 3,000 years with more than 200,000 words, which is probably the most concise of its kind. After the book was published, it was widely welcomed by academic circles. It was not only printed many times in China, but also translated into Japanese and Korean. It is adopted as a teaching material by many universities at home and abroad. In addition to simplicity, its internal "consistency" is clearly the most important reason. Mr. Fan Jiang and Mr. Wang Yonghao's evaluation of this book is: "Sparse without leaving, save without lacking, so as to salt out weeds and produce essence." This is not a false name. Even if it is a single monograph, Mr. Zhou can often make a mountain out of a molehill, which shows his overall grasp of its context in the analysis of specific issues. For example, the following two types of papers:
The first category is the paper that discusses the object itself, that is, the nature that runs through different times, such as the article "The Evolution of the Concept of Ancient and Modern Literature and History —— A Discussion with Emphasis on Official History and Novels", which comprehensively discusses the development and evolution of the historical data values of China's ancient note novels, points out that the traditional concept of belittling ancient novels has gradually changed in modern times, but it has not been completely reversed, and proposes to further explore ways to correctly handle novel materials. Another example is the evolution of Gordon's theory of energy and the formation of Liu Xie's theory of creation. Starting with the function of the theory of "Neng Fu" in the interpretation of Fu in Wen Xin Diao Long, this paper traces the sources of various expressions of this theory in ancient literature, analyzes their similarities and differences, and points out that this theory has different meanings and properties in various classics and times. Finally, it comes to the conclusion that although Liu Xie cited the ancient times, this kind of paper is not long, but it runs through the changing significance of literary history or academic history. If it is not in the overall situation, it is impossible to be in such a strategic position.
The object of the second kind of papers is specific problems, but in Mr. Zhou's works, it has also been done, linking ancient and modern times. For example, the article "On the Evolution of Literary Concepts from the Debate of the First Seven-character Rhyme Poem in Tang Dynasty" involves a relatively small issue, that is, the argument of predecessors about which poem is the best seven-character rhyme in Tang Dynasty. However, Mr. Zhou did not evaluate these works in isolation like his predecessors. Instead, it examines the viewpoints of various schools in different times, and further points out that the viewpoints of various schools are closely related to their times, and they typically reflect the different literary concepts in the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties. In this way, this paper not only finds a reasonable explanation for the long-term dispute of "Seven Laws First" in the Tang Dynasty, but also provides us with a unique perspective to examine the evolution of literary concepts since the Tang and Song Dynasties. Similarly, there are articles such as "Analysis of Guo Pu's Poems as the First Theory of Jin Zhongxing" and "Du Fu's Death without Reputation". It should be said that it is more difficult to embody general knowledge in the second kind of papers than in the first kind, because researchers are often bound by the microscopic nature of their research objects when they pay attention to such topics, thus affecting the accuracy of their conclusions. If this is the case for a long time, researchers will also fall into a trivial and narrow situation and cannot extricate themselves.
So, what is the purpose of academic research to pursue the realm of communication? Teacher Zhou has a very clear answer to this. He explained an article about Chen Yinque's On Han Yu with the title of "The All-rounder understands what he knows and expresses his meaning", and said at the beginning of this article: "The connection between things is full of dialectical relations. Some things seem completely irrelevant or even mutually exclusive, but if we look closely, we can still find that they are internally related. When people observe things, if they just stay on the surface, they can only follow the trend and do some low-level discussions; However, if we can dig out the potential deep connection between things and explain it in depth, and finally get everyone's approval, this writing may be considered original. Obviously, we should strive to improve our education, cultivate keen perception and observation ability, make discoveries, innovate and make achievements. " This passage is very wonderful. The so-called "digging out the potential deep connection between things" means going deep into the essence of things, because everything in the world is internally interrelated and interactive. Even if some things appear in an isolated state, they are only appearances rather than essence, which is the fundamental nature of the universe we live in. Because of this, profound research is bound to pay attention to the relationship between things (including * * * time relationship and diachronic relationship), and not just satisfied with the isolated investigation of a single thing. Mr. Zhou's academic research is a vivid embodiment of this academic thought.
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Mr. Zhou's academic research has a strong color of simplicity, but he does not strictly abide by the barriers of textual research and exegesis of Ganjia School in Qing Dynasty. The book review written by Mr. Cheng Yizhong for the Collected Works of Zhou Xunchu, entitled "Looking for the Development Road of New Park Studies", can be described as an exploration. Pu Xue, in its original meaning, refers to a kind of pure learning, so the Qing Dynasty used it to refer to the Confucian school that emphasized textual research and exegesis. Mr. Zhou highly praised the academic achievements of the Ganjia School, but he was more interested in the modern academic tradition represented by Wang Guowei and Chen Yinque. He said: "In the past century, several outstanding scholars have appeared in China academic circles, such as Wang Guowei and Chen Yinque. On the one hand, they inherited the fine tradition of Park Studies in Qing Dynasty, on the other hand, they accepted the new research methods of western scholars. Their achievements must be inherited. " Mr. Zhou's own academic research also has the same characteristics. Mr. Cheng Yizhong commented that "philology and comprehensive research embodies a research method with a simple spirit, which can be said to have opened up a road of literature and history research with national characteristics." Of course, the connotation of this "new learning" is very rich, which is also reflected in many aspects in Mr. Zhou's academic research. One of the most striking features is that it is not empty talk but an empirical spirit aimed at solving specific problems.
What is the real meaning of academic research? What is the purpose of writing books and compositions? In Mr. Zhou's view, the purpose of reading is very clear, and that is to solve problems. Mr. Zhou is very dissatisfied with that rambling cliche. His own thesis, no matter how long or short, is aimed at a specific problem and can get a practical answer. Of course, this answer must be innovative, even if it has not been sent before. There are many articles in the Collected Works of Mr. Zhou with new topics, such as the analysis of Wei III's foundation, Liu Xie's two dreams and the seal of Selected Works. Cao Cao, Cao Pi, and Cao Cao's "three generations of foundation", that is, women from poor backgrounds became empresses. This phenomenon was mentioned as early as in Pei Zhu's Notes on the Three Kingdoms. However, people generally only regard it as Cao Shi's indecent act, as a family of "redundant castration and ugly inheritance", without delving into its essence. Through careful analysis, Mr. Zhou pointed out that Cao Shi's move not only contained the political purpose of preventing future generations from interfering in politics, but also meant abandoning traditional moral concepts. Cao Shi's family style had a profound influence on Jian 'an literature, which was "generous, open-minded and capable". In Preface to the Carving of Dragons in the Literary Mind, Liu Xie talked about his two early dreams, one was to climb the colorful clouds, and the other was to travel south with Confucius. What's the significance of these two dreams? Why did Liu Xie write them in the book? Mr. Zhou made an incisive analysis of this. He investigated the phenomenon that literati often dreamed of colorful things and the prevailing dream-occupying style at that time, thus pointing out Liu Xie's intention of holding dreams as a symbol, and the significance of Liu Xie's two dreams was clear. These articles have unique innovative significance from the perspective of topic selection to the perspective of cut-in, and they are refreshing to read.
If the nature of the above papers is novel and narrow, so it is easy to produce new ones, then let's take a look at Mr. Zhou's more ambitious articles. An Introduction to Three Literary Theories in the Liang Dynasty is an important paper written by Mr. Zhou before the Cultural Revolution. In this paper, the literary theory of the Liang Dynasty is divided into the old school, the new school and the eclectic school, and the characteristics and differences of each school are discussed in detail, so as to grasp the literary theory of the Liang Dynasty as a whole and clarify its internal context. This article spread overseas earlier, and was praised by scholars in Taiwan Province Province as "finding what they got and getting what they promised, which is called a good system." The article "Han Yu's Yong Zhen Xing and His Friendship with Liu Yuxi" is an old topic that has been debated by predecessors. However, this paper not only makes a macroscopic investigation on the relationship between Han and Liu in the political and cultural background of the middle Tang Dynasty, but also makes a microscopic analysis on many specific factors such as their personalities, and draws a novel and fair conclusion, which is very convincing. The article "Complete Poems of Syria's Tang Dynasty" probes into the ins and outs of Complete Poems of Tang Dynasty, and discusses in detail the mystery of Yangzhou Poetry Bureau's rapid compilation of Complete Poems of Tang Dynasty following the records of Complete Poems of Tang Dynasty and Tang Yin Tong Qian by Hu Zhenheng, which is of great enlightening significance for the academic circles to correctly evaluate Complete Poems of Tang Dynasty and clarify its own context. After the publication of this article, the academic circles attached great importance to it, and Mr. Fu Xuanyan thought it was "a very weighty paper". In addition, articles such as "New Fashion in Yuanhe Literary World" and "Debate between Literary Factions and Theories in Northern Song Dynasty" also have the characteristics of refinement from later to new. As for his works, such as The Influence of the Development of Science and Technology on the Literature of Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, A Review of Liu Xie's Main Research Method-Eclectic Theory, and The Song People's Carrying Forward the Culture of the Previous Generation, etc., it is self-evident that they have a broader vision and a sharper vision, and are of greater significance to broadening the academic field.
Mr. Zhou once described his academic experience like this: "In academic research, we should take' what our predecessors have not done' as the first priority. What's the point of innovation if we just completely copy some of our predecessors' views, or integrate many others' views, or add a few more materials to our predecessors' conclusions? " ("Ascending Nature") and said: "Literature should be original, and academics should strive for breakthroughs. This is semen flowing from the heart, which can stimulate your feelings about dreams. "If you have read all the works of Mr. Zhou, you will feel that this is really the heartfelt words of a successful scholar. Although these words are quite plain, they have actually put forward a rather lofty academic goal. In this sense, Mr. Zhou's remarks can also be regarded as a conversation between an academic elder and a latecomer, which is very enlightening.
Although Mr. Zhou Xunchu is nearly eighty years old, he is full of vigor and never tires of learning. He still studies and studies as diligently as before. After the publication of Zhou Xunchu's collected works, his carefully selected book "Li Bai Research" has been published. The preface of this book makes a comprehensive summary of Li Bai's research in the past hundred years, and the selected articles have been highly valued by Li Bai's research circles at home and abroad. As one of the biographies of China thinkers, Biography of Li Bai embodies Mr. Zhou's many years' experience in studying Li Bai, and has made great progress in Li Bai's family background, life behavior and ideological tendency, which is the latest academic achievement in Li Bai's research. Mr. Xue Tianwei believes: "Due to the limitation of basic historical materials, Li Bai's empirical research rarely makes effective progress. This book can find another way to reveal the deep background of the formation of Li Bai's unique thought and provide a new perspective and viewpoint for interpreting Li Bai. " Under the guidance of Mr. Zhou, Dr. Yu, a Malaysian student, compiled the teacher's teaching into a book, which recorded many enlightening academic opinions published by Mr. Zhou in the process of persuasive teaching. Mr. Zhou Xunchu still insists on writing, and his academic papers are constantly appearing in important academic journals such as Literary Heritage. The rewriting of Poems of the Whole Tang Dynasty and the Tales of Song People presided over by him is also proceeding in an orderly way. Only diligent cultivators can maintain academic youth, and the endless spirit of China traditional culture shines brightly in Mr. Zhou's academic activities.
[Collection of Commemorative Works of Zhou Xunchu's Eighty Birthday, edited by Mo Lifeng, Zhonghua Book Company, April 2008, pp. 569-579].