A kind of book is a reference book that compiles some or all of the original materials of ancient books and arranges them according to categories or rhymes for people to consult.
The quasi-books are a kind of encyclopedic data compilation in ancient China. It is named after its extensive content, extensive collection of books and classified editing.
A reference book for classical literature, which collects data and is easy to find and quote. Its styles include two kinds: comprehensive ones that collect all the materials in one book and professional ones that collect only one material. Editing methods are generally classified and arranged by rhyme and word. The existing masterpieces are: Records of Arts and Literature in Tang Dynasty, Notes for Beginners, Magnolia in Peace in Song Dynasty, Yuan Gui in Bookstore, Yongle Grand Ceremony in Ming Dynasty and Integration of Ancient and Modern Books in Qing Dynasty. Its value: First, it preserves a large number of precious materials close to the original works in ancient China, which are used for collating ancient books, searching poems and songs, and textual research on the origin of allusions and idioms; Secondly, the researchers directly provided the materials for special research.
The so-called category book is a kind of reference book, which collects the information of various categories or a certain category, sorts it according to the category, and makes it easy to find and quote.
Books are divided into three categories according to content and arrangement: semantic system, morphological system and phonological system. Semantic books are arranged according to the semantic categories of materials, such as astronomy, geography and personnel. Each department is divided into several sub-categories, for example, astronomy is divided into sun, moon, star, time and so on; Time is divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter. Most ancient books fall into this category. Among them, according to the range of materials, there are two kinds: comprehensive and specialized. A phonetic book is a phrase with two or four words extracted from ancient books. According to the rhyme of the last word, it is compiled into a rhyme, which is mainly used for compiling words and finding information sources in dictionaries. Such as Yun Fu in Yuan Dynasty and Pei Fu in Qing Dynasty. Xingtongshu is a kind of font classification, that is, the words composed of two words are classified into the same part of speech according to their last word, and the poetry articles containing this word are listed, such as the classification of parallel prose in Qing Dynasty. Its function is similar to that of a phonetic book.
The originator of China's ancient books should be Wei's Huang Lan. According to "The Reflection of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Zhi Wendi", Wei Wendi Cao Pishi "made Confucianism write more than a thousand classics". This book has been lost for a long time, although there are some lost copies in later generations, but the number is small, it is difficult to get a glimpse of its whole picture. During the Six Dynasties, there were also many books, such as Xiuwen Temple written by Wu Ping, the late master of the Northern Qi Dynasty. Many volumes were lost, and they were taken by books in the Tang and Song Dynasties and have been lost so far. Another example is the Catalogue of the Same Surnames in Qi and Liang Dynasties, and Brief Introduction to the Liang Dynasty.
There are three official books in the Tang Dynasty, namely Literature and Art written by Ou Yangxun and others, Wenguan written by Xu and Xujian written by beginners. There are two privately written works: Yu Shinan's Bei Tang Shuchao and Bai Juyi's Six Chapters of the White Cave.
Collection of Literature and Art, edited by Tang Gaozu, 100. This book is classified and extracted from more than 400 kinds of ancient books, including 48 kinds of books on chronology, politics and industry, which are rich in content with facts before and poems after. The ancient classics quoted in it are scattered today, which has preserved many precious materials for us.
Wenguan Linz, edited by Tang Gaozong. 1000 volume. Classify and sort out all kinds of poems from pre-Qin to Tang Dynasty. The original book was lost in the Northern Song Dynasty. There are dozens of books circulating in Japan, most of which have been reintroduced to China. Each remnant volume includes Lost Series, Crescent Hall Series II, Ancient Meaning Series and Shiyuan Series.
Bei Tang Shu Chao was edited by Yu Shinan when he was the minister of Sui Dynasty in the early Tang Dynasty. Volume 160. The book extracts 852 famous sayings from various books at that time, which can be used for writing at that time.
The compilation scale of quasi-books in Song Dynasty was unprecedented, and many large-scale quasi-books were produced. More famous are:
Taiping Yu Lan, Volume 1000. In the second year of Song Taiping Xingguo (977), Liu Yun and others were ordered to edit it, which lasted for eight years. First named "Taiping General Category", Taizong made people read three volumes every day. "There are thousands of volumes in this book, and I want to read it all year round", so I changed my name. Also known as "Imperial View". There are 55 books, and each book is divided into several categories, some of which have subtitles, and the size category is about 5474. Yu Lan cited more than 690 kinds of ancient books/kloc-0. It can be seen that it is not only an important comprehensive reference book, but also one of the most abundant books to preserve ancient lost books.
Yuan Gui of Bookstore, Volume 1000. Song Zhenzong ordered Wang Qinruo, Yang Yi and so on. It started in the second year of Jingdezhen (1005), lasted for eight years, and was completed in the sixth year of Taizhong Xiangfu, namely 10 13. It is divided into 3 1 door and 1 104 door. The deeds of past dynasties, from ancient times to five dynasties, are arranged in order. This collection is mainly based on historical books, with occasional references and quotations, which is of great value to the collation of historical books before the Song Dynasty.