\tThe Quantangshi \u5168\u5510\u8bd7 is a collection of all preserved shi poems \u8bd7 from the Tang \u5510 (618-907) and Five Dynasties \u4e94\u4ee3 (907-960) periods. It was compiled in the early years of the 18th century by a team led by Cao Yin \u66f9\u5bc5 and Peng Dingyiu \u5f6d\u5b9a\u6c42. Some of the team members were Shen Sanceng \u6c88\u4e09\u66fe, Yang Zhongna \u6768\u4e2d\u8bb7, Pan Conglü \u6f58\u4ece\u5f8b, Wang Shihong \u6c6a\u58eb\u7eae, Xu Shuben \u5f90\u6811\u672c, Ju Dingjin \u8f66\u9f0e\u664b, Cha Sili \u67e5\u55e3\u746e, Wang Yi \u6c6a\u7ece, and Yu Mei \u4fde\u6885. The Quantangshicontains nearly 50,000 poems (including fragments) of more than 2,200 persons, arranged in 900 juan "scrolls". To each person a short biography is added.<\/p>\n
\tBefore this complete collection was undertaken there were mainly two collections of Tang shi poems, namely Hu Chenheng's \u80e1\u6668\u4ea8 Tangyin tongqian \u5510\u97f3\u7edf\u7b7e from the Ming period \u660e (1368-1644) and Ji Zhenyi's \u5b63\u632f\u5b9c Quantangshi in 717 juan. Neither of these two had been printed, but they served as the basis for the large Quantangshi, after a thorough revision of the references. Nevertheless there are still errors in the Quantangshi, like the recording of some poems written during the Southern Dynasties period (Nanchao \u5357\u671d, 420~589), or the confusion of titles containing names of persons with the name of the author (like "bidding farewell to XY" being attributed to XY).<\/p>\n
\tThe first printing was done by the Yangzhou poetry bureau \u626c\u5dde\u8bd7\u5c40 in 120 booklets, the common modern printing is that by the Zhonghua shuju press \u4e2d\u534e\u4e66\u5c40 from 1960 in 12 volumes. This edition is enriched by a supplement , the Quantangshi yi (Zent\u014dshi ichi) \u5168\u5510\u8bd7\u9038, edited by the Japanese "He Shining" \u6cb3\u4e16\u5b81 (Ichikawa Kansai \u5e02\u5ddd\u5bbd\u658e) in 3 juan (Taibei: Guangwen Press \u5e7f\u6587\u4e66\u5c40, 1970). In 1982 the Zhonghua shuju press published another supplement, theQuantangshi waibian \u5168\u5510\u8bd7\u5916\u7f16, edited by Wang Zhongmin \u738b\u91cd\u6c11. This collection contains Wang's Bu Quantangshi \u8865\u5168\u5510\u8bd7 (104 poems) and Dunhuang Tangren shiji canjuan \u6566\u714c\u5510\u4eba\u8bd7\u96c6\u6b8b\u5377 with 62 poems found in Dunhuang, Sun Wang's \u5b59\u671b Quantangshi buyi \u5168\u5510\u8bd7\u8865\u9057 in 20 juan (896 poems), and Tong Yangnian's \u7ae5\u517b\u5e74 Quantangshi xu buyi \u5168\u5510\u8bd7\u7eed\u8865\u9057 in 21 juan (more than 1,200 poems). Wang Zhongmin also published 52 further poems in the periodicalZhonghua wenshi luncong \u4e2d\u534e\u6587\u53f2\u8bba\u4ece, 1981, 4.<\/p>\n
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