{"id":19456,"date":"2020-02-11T08:52:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T08:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/quantangwen-quan-tang-wen-the-whole-collection-of-tang-period-literature-2\/"},"modified":"2020-02-11T08:52:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T08:52:27","slug":"quantangwen-quan-tang-wen-the-whole-collection-of-tang-period-literature-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/quantangwen-quan-tang-wen-the-whole-collection-of-tang-period-literature-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantangwen \u5168\u5510\u6587 The whole collection of Tang period literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>  \tThe Quantangwen \u5168\u5510\u6587 is a collection of all preserved prose style literature from the Tang \u5510 (618-907) and Five Dynasties \u4e94\u4ee3 (907-960) periods. It was compiled in the early years of the 19th century by a team led by Dong Gao \u8463\u8aa5, Ruan Yuan \u962e\u5143 and Xu Song \u5f90\u677e. It contains 18,488 literary pieces (including fragments) of 3,042 persons, arranged in 1,000 juan &quot;scrolls&quot;. To each person a short biography is added.<br \/>  \tThere was a draft to a collection of Tang literature in the imperial library, the Tangwen \u5510\u6587 in 160 volumes, compiled by the early Qing period \u6e05 (1644-1911) scholar Chen Bangyan \u9673\u90a6\u5f65. Not being content with this draft, the Jiaqing Emperor \u5609\u6176 (r. 1795-1820) ordered compiling a new collection. This collection included older books like the Song period \u5b8b (960-1279) collection Wenyuan yinghua \u6587\u82d1\u82f1\u83ef, the Guwenyuan \u53e4\u6587\u82d1 and the Tangwencui \u5510\u6587\u7cb9. A few pieces were extracted from the Ming period \u660e (1368-1644) encyclopedia Yongle dadian \u6c38\u6a02\u5927\u5178 and many other documentary collections, even some stone slab inscriptions served as primary sources.<\/p>\n<p>  \tAlthough the Quantangwen is a very valuable source that assembles all important pieces of literature of the Tang period it is by no means complete, contains errors (often question of attributing an essay to a wrong person) and doublings. A handful of modern scholars like Lao Ge \u52de\u683c (Du Quantangwen zhaji \u8b80\u5168\u5510\u6587\u672d\u8a18) and Cen Zhongmian \u5c91\u4ef2\u52c9 have contributed to correct such errors. Pieces not included are, for example, novel-like writings like the Liu Yi zhuan \u67f3\u6bc5\u50b3, Huo Xiaoyu zhuan \u970d\u5c0f\u7389\u50b3 or Zhou-Qin xingji \u5468\u79e6\u884c\u7d00.<\/p>\n<p>  \tThe literary corpus is arranged according to persons, and secondary to the traditional types of literature as it has been developed in the Wenxuan \u6587\u9078 and perpetuated in the Wenyuan yinghua.<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-372469428\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Quantangwen \u5168\u5510\u6587 is a collection of all preserved prose style literature from the Tang \u5510 (618-907) and Five Dynasties \u4e94\u4ee3 (907-960) periods. It was compiled in the early years of the 19th century by a team led by Dong Gao \u8463\u8aa5, Ruan Yuan \u962e\u5143 and Xu Song \u5f90\u677e. It contains 18,488 literary pieces (including fragments) of 3,042 persons, arranged in 1,000 juan &quot;scrolls&quot;. To each person a short biography is added.<br \/>\n  \tThere was a draft to a collection of Tang literature in the imperial library, the Tangwen \u5510\u6587 in 160 volumes, compiled by the early Qing period \u6e05 (1644-1911) scholar Chen Bangyan \u9673\u90a6\u5f65. Not being content with this draft, the Jiaqing Emperor \u5609\u6176 (r. 1795-1820) ordered compiling a new collection. This collection included older books like the Song period \u5b8b (960-1279) collection Wenyuan yinghua \u6587\u82d1\u82f1\u83ef, the Guwenyuan \u53e4\u6587\u82d1 and the Tangwencui \u5510\u6587\u7cb9. A few pieces were extracted from the Ming period \u660e (1368-1644) encyclopedia Yongle dadian \u6c38\u6a02\u5927\u5178 and many other documentary collections, even some stone slab inscriptions served as primary sources.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2877,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-classics","category-chinese-culture"],"views":175,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}