The "Ancient Literature Guanzhi", "The Eight Great Anthologies of the Tang and Song Dynasties", and the "Compilation of Ancient Literary Dictionaries" were all compiled by the Ming and Qing dynasties in order to improve the writing level of the Eight Strands of Literature, not literary anthologies. Many modern people's understanding of the positioning of these anthologies is wrong.
Now many people recommend children to read "Ancient Literature and GuanZhi", in fact, this is not the best choice.
This article introduces some common ancient anthologies such as "Ancient Literature Guanzhi", "Tang and Song Dynasty Eight Great Anthologies", and "Ancient Literary Dictionaries", in order to prevent readers from falling into the pit.
The shortcomings of the Ancient Literature Guanzhi
There are many shortcomings of the Ancient Literature Guanzhi.
"Ancient Literature and Guanzhi" was selected for the Qing Dynasty people to read, and is not suitable for modern people.
The time chosen for the Guwen Guanzhi is the Qing Dynasty, the Thirty-third Year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1694).
There is a big problem with the selection of the title of "Ancient Literature and Guanzhi", mainly because the "Zuo Chuan" articles have been selected too much. In fact, "Chinese" is more important.
The lower limit of the articles included in the "Ancient Literature Guanzhi" is too early, and many good articles in the Qing Dynasty have no income.
The purpose of the compilation of the "Ancient Literature Guanzhi" is to improve the reader's eight-strand writing level, not a literary anthology. Modern readers do not write eight strands of literature, but look at literary anthologies. There is a big deviation in the purpose of the two.
"Ancient Literature Guanzhi", "Ancient Literature and Dictionary", "Tang and Song Eight Great Anthology", these are all books written by the Ming and Qing dynasties in order to improve the eight strands of literature, not in accordance with literary standards. "Six Dynasties Wenxuan", "Zhaoming Wenxuan", these are literary anthologies.
"Ancient Literature and GuanZhi" is even more inappropriate for today's children to read.
"The New Language of the World" and "Six Dynasties Wenxuan" are more suitable for children to read. It may be more appropriate for children to read literary anthologies of ancient texts chosen by modern candidates, such as the Anthology of Ancient Texts. Short ancient texts, or fables, are more suitable for children to read.
At the beginning, you don't have to read the pre-Qin articles, the pre-Qin articles are more difficult, you can read the articles after the Han Dynasty first, step by step, from shallow to deep.
Children can also read the Ancient Literature Guan Zhi. But you don't have to ask for word understanding, you just need to know the approximate meaning. The method of the ancients is the most scientific, that is, to memorize it first, and then naturally understand it later.
Selected Writings of the Eight Greats of the Tang and Song Dynasties
The Ming Dynasty was the first to propose the Eight Greats of the Tang and Song Dynasties, and the Ming Dynasty man Mao Kun (1512-1601) compiled and selected the "Eight Great Anthology of the Tang and Song Dynasties".
The Ming Dynasty people proposed the Tang and Song Dynasties, believing that learning the ancient texts of these people would help improve the level of writing in the Eight Strands. The Eight Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties are the Eight Greats who help to improve the writing level of the Eight Strands. Not the eight masters of Tang and Song dynasty literature.
"Compilation of Ancient Chinese Dictionaries"
The editor of the "Ancient Literature and Dictionary" is Yao Nai. Yao Nai belonged to the Tongcheng faction. The shortcoming of the Tongcheng school is emptiness, which is the worst written in the Chinese literary genre. Yao Nai's "DengtaiShan" is very brief, nothing is written, there is no amount of information, and there is no literary style, and it is a waste of time to read such a rotten article. Later generations called the Tongcheng school a "Tongcheng fallacy", which is justified.
The advantage of "Ancient Literature dictionary" is that it is mainly prose, with some prose and rhetoric. Unlike other ancient anthologies, which are all prose, boring and lack of literary style.
"Six Dynasties Wenxuan"
The Six Dynasties Wenxuan (六朝文絜) is an anthology of the Six Dynasties Texts, selected according to their literary nature.
Selected Writings of Zhao Ming
The Selected Writings of Zhaoming is also an anthology of poems from the Six Dynasties, also selected according to literary nature.
There are also many "Zhaoming Wenxuan" and rich literary style, and some people do not like the Zhaoming Wenwen, calling the "Zhaoming Wenxuan" a "selection of evil".
The dispute between the body and the scattered body
Who better represents Chinese prose is a topic of debate.
Objectively speaking, the script is rich in literary style, literary and relatively strong, and can also explain reason and narrative. There are many excellent works in the Piao script.
When reading ancient texts in the past on a daily basis, the chance of encountering the piao script and the scattered script is about half of the time.
Therefore, the ancient text selection should have a certain number of piao scripts.
Anthology of ancient texts suitable for modern people
Modern people reading ancient literature do not necessarily have to read the "Ancient Literature GuanZhi". Modern people read the best books of ancient literature as follows.
"Ancient Literature and Guan Zhi". Just said that "Ancient Literature Guanzhi" is not suitable for modern people to read, why is it recommended? There are many advantages to the Ancient Literature, but the disadvantages cannot be obtained by supplementing them with other anthologies.
Recommended version. Zhonghua Bookstore, traditional vertical arrangement. 2 volumes. Number of pages: 579. ISBN：9787101041415。
Commentary on the Ancient Literature of jingxue (1867-1935) Simplified horizontal row, Zhonghua Bookstore. ISBN: 9787101132113。
"Continuing the Ancient Literature and Stopping", edited by Wang Wenxuan. Changchun Ancient Books Bookstore. Number of pages: 276 pages. ISBN: 9787807158110。 A total of 174 articles from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties to the early years of the Republic of China were selected, counting sixty-five writers.
"Ancient Dictionary of Words" can also be read.
Recommended version. Chongwen Bureau. Simplified horizontal. Paperback 2 volumes. Number of pages: 804. With full commentary. ISBN: 9787532581283。
Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House. Simplified horizontal. Hardcover one volume. Number of pages: 856. Only the article, with all the commentaries deleted. ISBN: 9787532581283。
"Tang and Song Dynasty Eight Great Literary Notes", can also be read. "Tang and Song Dynasty Eight Great Literary Notes" is based on the word "alcohol" as the standard. A total of nineteen volumes, including 316 articles by Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Ouyang Xiu, Su Xun, Su Shi, Su Rui, Zeng Gong, and Wang Anshi, including the "Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties". Features: First, the scale is moderate, concise and concise, suitable for the first ancient writers to read. Most of the famous articles of the second and eighth masters are included in them (Su Xun only has 2 articles), and one compilation is in hand, and the essence can be seen. Third, at the end of the chapter, the comments of various families are collected, in addition to the editors' own opinions, they also adopt the sayings of Wang Shenzhong, Tang Shunzhi, and Mao Kun.
Recommended version. Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House. Simplified horizontal. Hardcover one volume. Number of pages: 504. ISBN: 9787532592043
The Six Dynasties Wenxuan contains 72 articles, ranging from Lu Ji of the Jin Dynasty (261-303) to Yang Huan (585-618) of the Sui Dynasty. It is short and flowery. Although I don't speak human words, I look comfortable. Lu Xun never said anything good about China, and he liked to watch it.
Recommended version. Notes on the Six Dynasties, Zhonghua Bookstore or Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House. Traditional vertical. Paperback. Number of pages: 188. ISBN: 9789622313620。
Sichuan People's Publishing House, Houlang. Traditional horizontal row. Paperback. Number of pages: 264. ISBN: 9787220112485。
Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House. Hardcover. Simplified horizontal. Pages: 268 pages. ISBN: 9787532597505。
The biggest disadvantage of this set of Traditional Chinese Studies Collection series is that all the commentaries are moved to the back of the text, which is very inconvenient to read.
The Selected Writings of Zhaoming was compiled between the seventh year (526) and the third year of Zhongdatong (531) of Emperor Wu of Liang. It contains more than 700 poems by more than 130 authors in the seven or eight hundred years before the Zhou Dynasty to the Six Dynasties Liang. Li Bai, Du Fu, and Zeng Guofan's favorite books to read.
Recommended version. Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House. Number of pages: 2708. ISBN: 9787532512560。
"Piao Body Wen Banknote", a poetry rhyme compiled by Li Zhaoluo (1769~1841) in the Qing Dynasty, also known as the "General Collection of Piao Body Text". There are 31 volumes, divided into three parts. The first 18 volumes, including inscriptions, hymns, edicts, and shifts, etc.; the 8 volumes of the middle part, including treatises, prefaces, inscriptions, and zhizhi, belong to the works of referring to the meaning of the matter; the second 5 volumes, including the various bodies of edge beads, notes, and essays, are mostly works of fate and affection. The book was written in the last year of Jiaqing.
Recommended version. Zhongzhou Ancient Books Publishing House. Hardcover. Traditional vertical. Number of pages: 727. ISBN: 9787534803154。
Selected Writings of Past Dynasties, edited by Feng Qiyong, China Youth Publishing House, traditional vertical arrangement. 2 volumes. ISBN:9787300125466。
Appreciation Dictionary of Ancient Essays, Shanghai Dictionary Publishing House. Number of pages: 1032. ISBN: 9787532631797。
Appreciation Dictionary of Ancient Texts (New Edition), Shanghai Dictionary Publishing House. Number of pages : 1111. Number of pages: 1070ISBN: 9787532641635.
"Chinese Prose Appreciation Library", ancient volume, Hundred Flowers Literature and Art Publishing House. Hardcover. Number of pages: 1650. ISBN: 9787530626511
The book contains 561 articles. The advantage is that the selected essays highlight the literary nature, and there are annotations and appreciation. The disadvantage is that the chronological order of the authors is somewhat confused, for example, Yue Ke is in front of Yue Fei.
Selected Literary Works of Chinese Dynasties, edited by Zhu Dongrun. Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House. Six copies in one set, paperback. Traditional horizontal row.
The People's Literature Publishing House's Collection of Chinese Classical Literature Reader Series, including a set of anthologies from past dynasties.
Selected Writings of the Pre-Qin Dynasty, Selected Writings of the Six Dynasties of Han and Wei, Selected Writings of the Tang Dynasty, Selected Writings of the Song Dynasty, Selected Writings of the Jin Yuan, Selected Writings of the Ming Dynasty, and Selected Writings of the Qing Dynasty. Recommended purchase.
"The Six Dynasties of the Three Kingdoms of the Qin and Han Dynasties of the Three Dynasties of the Ancient Dynasty".
Recommended version. The Commercial Press. Simplified horizontal. Paperback. A total of 11 volumes and 16 copies. Including: 1. Quan shangu san dynasty wen Quan Qin wen 2.Quan Han wen 3.Quan Hou Han wen (upper and lower) 4.Quan San Guo Wen (upper and lower) 5.Quan Jin wen (upper, middle and lower) 6.Quan Song wen 7.Quan Qi wen Quan Chen wen 8.Quan Liang wen (upper and lower) 9.Quan Hou Wei wen 10.Quan Bei Qi Quan Hou Zhou wen 11.Quan Sui Wen Xian Tang wen.
"New Edition of Quan Tang Wen". A collection of all articles from the Tang Dynasty. A total of more than 20 million words, 22 huge volumes. Jilin Literature and History Publishing House. Hardcover. Traditional vertical. ISBN: 9787806265284。
The Whole Song Dynasty. Shanghai Dictionary Publishing House. Hardcover. Traditional vertical. 360 copies. Number of pages: 80000. ISBN: 9787532618682。
A collection of all articles from the Northern and Southern Song dynasties.
Ancient String Recitation
"Ancient Chinese String Recitation" is an anthology of ancient texts that the author is compiling.
The initial idea was.
Synthesize the advantages of the historical selection and avoid the shortcomings.
In terms of selecting texts, it takes into account both the body and the scattered body.
Typography, traditional vertical, no punctuation. The words are big and easy to read.
Confucianism is a mess, and articles with strong Confucian thought are not accepted.
Discard some well-known but uninteresting articles, such as Zhuge Liang's list of teachers. Fan Zhongyan's Yueyang Louji and so on.