Yiwen leiju

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The Yiwen lèijù ( Chinese藝文類聚or艺文类聚, "After subject groups ordered collection of literary texts") is a Chinese encyclopedia , the order of the first Tang Emperor Gao Zu (高组) from the calligrapher Ouyang Xun (歐陽詢 or 欧阳询) (557-641) et al. It was published in 624. Other collaborators on the project were Linghu Defen (令狐 德 棻) and Chen Shuda (陳 叔 達 and 陈 叔 达).

According to a 1923 census by researchers at Peking University, it was based on 1,321 old books. It is an encyclopedia ( leishu ) compiled from excerpts from other works according to 48 subject groups in main categories (bu) and many sub-categories (lei ). It comprises 100 booklets (juan). It contains important textual material on ancient Chinese cultural history, much of which was already lost during the Song Dynasty . That is why it is also a frequently cited treasure trove of Chinese textual criticism .

Main categories (selection)

According to Teng and Biggerstaff, some important subject groups are:

  • Celestial phenomena
  • geography
  • Emperors
  • human behaviour
  • government
  • rites
  • music
  • Law
  • Civil service
  • Nobility ranks
  • military
  • Housekeeping
  • property
  • dress
  • Tools
  • eat
  • Utils
  • Handicrafts
  • chess
  • Daoism
  • Buddhism
  • Ghosts
  • medicine
  • Natural history

Remarks

  1. ↑ Zhongguo pengren wenxian tiyao , p. 15
  2. ↑ Cihai , S. 2019
  3. ↑ Teng & Biggerstaff, third ed., P. 85

Example: food and food

Using an example - namely that of the subject group of meals and foods (Shiwu bu 食物 部) in chapter (juan) 72 - let us briefly outline what the encyclopedia offers for one of its main categories. It contains a large amount of materials on the history of Chinese food and drink culture in the early Tang period and the period before it. It is divided into the following individual sub-categories (lei):

  • Food (shí 食)
  • Pastries / flat dough / etc. (bǐng 饼)
  • Meat (ròu 肉)
  • Jerky meat / etc. (fǔ 脯)
  • jiang (jiàng 酱)
  • Vinegar (cù 酢)
  • Butter / cream (làosū 酪 苏)
  • Rice / grain (mǐ 米)
  • alcoholic beverages (jiǔ 酒)

Related topics to the above example

Since the classification system of the subject groups is generally not entirely satisfactory, a user interested in this topic would have to refer to this special main category as well as other topic-related chapters (juan) on the aspect of Chinese culture that we have singled out here, for example:

  • Cape. 73: Various devices (Za qiwu bu 杂 器物 部)
  • Cape. 81 and 82: Medicinal plants, aromatic substances, herbs (Yaoxiangcao bu 药 香草 部)
  • Cape. 86 and 87: fruits (Guo bu 果 部)
  • Cape. 90 to 92: birds (Niao bu 鸟 部)
  • Cape. 93 to 95: animals (rural dwellers, quadrupeds, game, etc.) (Shou bu 兽 部)
  • Cape. 96 and 97: fish, reptiles and mollusks (Lin jia bu 鳞 介 部)

expenditure

The Chinese publishing house Zhonghua shuju (中华书局) published a photographic reproduction of an edition of the song in 1959, and the publishing house Shanghai guji chubanshe (上海 古籍 出版社) published a modern-scale edition in 1965.

See also

literature

  • Zhongguo pengren cidian
  • Tao Zhengang; Zhang Lianming (Ed.): Zhongguo pengren wenxian tiyao [An overview of important historical documents of Chinese eating and drinking culture]; Beijing: Zhongguo shangye chubanshe 1986.
  • Ssu-yü Teng and K. Biggerstaff: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Chinese Reference Works, third edition , Cambridge / Mass .: Harvard University Press 1971, p. 85
  • Cihai ; ISBN 7532608395