Yiwen leiju

The Yiwen lèijù (Chinese艺文 类 聚or艺文 类 聚, " After subject groups ordered collection of literary texts " ) is a Chinese Encyclopedia, to the command of the first Tang Emperor Gaozu (高 组) of the calligrapher Ouyang Xun (欧阳 询or欧阳询) ( 557-641 ) et al. has been compiled, it appeared 624 Additional contributors to the project were Linghu Defen (令狐 德 棻) and Chen Shuda (陈 叔 达or陈 叔 达).

According to a census of the year 1923 by researchers at Peking University in 1321 she used old books as a basis. It is a composed of excerpts from other works, after 48 subject groups in major categories ( bu) and many sub-categories ( lei ) ordered Encyclopedia ( leishu ). It includes 100 books ( juan ). In her important text material for ancient Chinese cultural history is included, much of which had already been lost in the time of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, it is also a frequently cited treasure trove of Chinese textual criticism.

Main categories (selection)

Some important functional groups are by Teng and Biggerstaff:

  • Celestial phenomena
  • Geography
  • Kaiser / inside
  • Human behavior
  • Government
  • Rites
  • Music
  • Right
  • Civil service
  • Noble ranks
  • Household affairs
  • Property
  • Clothing
  • Tools
  • Food
  • Paraphernalia
  • Crafts
  • Chess
  • Daoism
  • Buddhism
  • Ghosts
  • Medicine
  • Natural history

Comments

Example: food and food

In the following, we would like an example - namely the functional group of food and food ( Shiwu bu食物 部) in chapter ( juan ) 72 - to briefly outline what the Encyclopedia offers as one of its main categories. It contains a large amount of material on the history of Chinese eating and drinking culture of the early Tang period and the time before that. It is divided into the following individual sub-categories ( lei ):

  • Food (食shí )
  • Pastry / dough sheets / etc. ( bǐng饼)
  • Meat ( rou肉)
  • Dried meat / etc. ( fǔ脯)
  • Jiang ( Jiang酱)
  • Vinegar ( cù酢)
  • Butter / cream ( làosū酪 苏)
  • Rice / Grain ( mǐ米)
  • Alcoholic beverages ( jiǔ酒)

Related topics on the above example

Since the classification system of the subject groups in general is not entirely satisfactory, an interested in this field user in addition to this particular main category should therefore also more thematically related chapters ( juan ) raise the concern which we picked out here aspect of Chinese culture, this would be for example:

  • Chap. 73: Various equipment ( Za Qiwu bu杂 器物 部)
  • Chap. 81 and 82: medicinal plants, aromatherapy, herbs ( Yaoxiangcao bu药 香草 部)
  • Chap. 86 and 87: Fruits (Guo bu果 部)
  • Chap. 90 to 92: Birds ( Niao bu鸟 部)
  • Chap. 93 to 95: Animals ( Animals, quadrupeds, game, etc.) ( Shou bu兽 部)
  • Chap. 96 and 97: fish, reptiles and mollusks (Lin jia bu鳞 介 部)

Expenditure

In Chinese publishing Zhonghua Shuju (中华书局) in 1959 published a photographic reproduction of a song out, publishing Shanghai guji chubanshe (上海 古籍 出版社) 1965 modern standards sufficient output.

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