1. A collection is a collection of works by more than two people. It can include works from one dynasty (Duan Dynasty) and multiple dynasties (Tong Dynasty), and can also include one genre and multiple genres. s work. Generally speaking, ancient collections are mostly collections of poems and articles. The Book of Songs, compiled in the 6th century BC, is today regarded as the earliest collection of poetry in my country. However, it is included in the "Jingbu" in the traditional literature classification. In the history of Chinese classical philology, the most influential collection of poems and essays in the early period was the Collection of Articles and Essays compiled by Zhiyu of Jin Dynasty. The earliest extant literary collection is the "Selected Works" compiled by Xiao Tong, Prince Zhaoming, the eldest son of Emperor Liang Wu of the Southern Dynasties. This comprehensive collection contains more than 700 works by 130 well-known authors and a few unknown authors from the Zhou Dynasty to the Six Dynasties, which are about 800 years old. They are divided into 98 categories, covering poetry, fu, and prose. The important significance of "Selected Works" lies in the fact that the editor consciously distinguished the classics, histories, and texts from "wen", and excluded the classics, histories, and texts from literary documents, and only retained the historical theories and histories with literary talent in the history books. Praise.
Divided according to the period and genre of compilation, the collection can be divided into the following categories:
(1) A collection of selectively compiled works of various genres throughout the dynasties , such as "Selected Works of Zhaoming".
(2) A collection of works of various genres that are selectively compiled from different eras, such as "Tang Wencui".
(3) The Tong Dynasty specially compiled a collection of all works of one genre indiscriminately, such as "The Complete Antiquity, Three Dynasties, Qin, Han, Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties".
(4) An indiscriminate collection of all works of a genre, such as "Complete Tang Dynasty".
(5) A comprehensive collection of works of one genre was selectively compiled throughout the dynasty, such as "New Odes of Yutai".
(6) A collection of works of a specific genre that is selectively compiled from one era to another, such as "Song Poetry Notes".
(7) A collection of works compiled according to the author's regional group or sectarian relationship, such as "Xi Kun Sing Collection".
2. The special collection is relative to the general collection, which refers to a collection of one person's works.
The term "Bieji" appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty. "Sui Shu Jing Ji Ji Zhi" says: "The name of Bie Ji is due to the creation of Han Dynasty Tokyo. Since the spirit has descended, there are many scholars who belong to literature, but their ambitions are still different, and their styles are different. The gentlemen who come after them want to Looking at his body, he can see his soul, so he named it "Ji Ren Jing Mu" and recorded it in his own book. Existence, now according to its order, followed by this. "Bieji became popular during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and became more prosperous after the Tang and Song Dynasties.
Most of the documents included in the collection are literary works, including memorials, essays, letters, quotations, etc. Some separate collections also include the author's monographs, such as Han Yu's collection of his historical work "Shunzong Shilu", and Ouyang Xiu's collection of his notes "Guitian Lu", etc.
(1) Types and arrangement of special collections:
Based collections can be divided into complete works that collect all the works of one person (such as "The Complete Works of Lu Fangweng" by Lu You in the Song Dynasty) and An anthology that selects part of one person's works (such as "Pi Zi Wen Sou" by Pi Rixiu in the Tang Dynasty).
According to the editing situation, it can be divided into two types:
One is the self-edited collection. For example, Cao Zhi compiled a personal collection during his lifetime (later lost, see "Jin Shu·Cao Zhi Biography") "), Sun Qiao of the Tang Dynasty compiled "Collected Works of Sun Ke";
The second is a separate collection edited by others. For example, the collected works of Han Yu in the Tang Dynasty were compiled by his son-in-law Li Han after Han Yu's death. That is, "Mr. Changli's Collection". :
(2) The documents in the collection are arranged in various ways.
Some classifications are arranged according to the theme of the works, such as "Ten Notes on Du Gongbu's Poems on the Enlargement of Categories" compiled in the Song Dynasty;
Some chronological arrangements are arranged according to the works' composition They are arranged successively by era, such as "Chronological Notes on Jiaxuan Ci" compiled by Mr. Deng Guangming of Peking University;
Some are divided into categories, that is, arranged according to the genre of the works, such as "Collected Works of Li Taibai" compiled by the Qing Dynasty ;
Some are arranged in several ways, such as "The Complete Works of the Valley" by Huang Tingjian in the Song Dynasty.
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