I found that most people think that reading Chinese studies books means reading literary classics. I have communicated with many people, from Haidian Chinese tuition teachers to graduates of the Chinese Department of Peking University. They almost think that literature is Chinese studies. Very speechless!
The fact is: regardless of the volume, collection, book, or volume of the statistics, literary works do not exceed 5% of ancient books.
As a scholar who reads all kinds of ancient books and makes detailed annotations and precise phonetic notations, he is speechless when he sees this reality. Please read my "Ancient Chinese One Side" to find out which ancient books are worth reading.
introduction
Chinese characters are the only "three-in-one form, sound and meaning" in the world today. The distinctive characteristics of Chinese characters and Chinese have created unique basic conditions for the inheritance of Chinese (and even East Asian) civilization, Chinese culture and Chinese classics, and thus nurtured, promoted and developed a long history, profound connotation, and brilliant oriental civilization.
Ancient Chinese classics mostly refer to "classical Chinese" documents. This book defines ancient classics as documents of the Qing Dynasty and previous dynasties. Although there have been many catastrophes, the number of ancient books in the world is still huge, and the number of books that a person can read is limited, so we can only "select and read them." When it comes to "selection", that is sorting and sorting. The census, sorting and classification of classics are extremely necessary and important tasks. The ancient imperial court led two large-scale census, collection, sorting, classification, and publication of classics. It was the first time in the Tang Dynasty, and finally compiled the "Yongle Dadian", a total of 22,877 volumes, but most of them have been lost. For the second time in the Qing Dynasty, "Siku Quanshu" and "Integration of Ancient and Modern Books" were compiled. "Siku Quanshu" is well-known by everyone such as Ji Yun (yún, the word Xiaolan, the other word Chunfan, the name Shiyun.) and the Aixinjueluo·Yongrong (róng, the sixth son of Qianlong.) etc. (chì, Accept the emperor’s edict.) Compiled.
"Siku Quanshu" divides ancient books into four categories:
(1) Jing Department: Four Books and Five Classics and their annotations, sparse editions, etc.;
(2) History Department: Official History, Biye History, Geographical Chronicles, Political Books, Records, memorials and other;
(3) sub-section: military; legalists; farmhouse; physicians; science and technology; the arts;
(4) set Department: total set of books; Songs; poetry, words, music; Romance and fiction;
in view of the child The classics of the "Doctors" of the Ministry of Medicine have unique characteristics. This book lists the "Medical Ministry" as a separate category.
"Ancient Wenyifang" is classified into five categories: classics, history, sub-articles, anthologies, and medicine. More than 90 representative ancient articles are selected and displayed in an "experienced" style. read. By reading these ancient texts, you can roughly understand the characteristics of various classics, learn some basic knowledge of ancient texts, improve the reading ability of ancient texts, and then read more and more in-depth other classics.