Wu Rulan Comments on the Evolution and Characteristics of Chu Ci
Wu Rulun is an important commentator in the Qing Dynasty. His comments on Chu Ci were first seen in the book Ancient Ci en-graved by Wu Qichang. Later,they were continuously added until Wu Rulun's Comments on Ancient Ci was published in the third year of the Re-public of China (1914). During this period,Wu Rulun commented on the main content of Chu Ci,which has been widely circulated through the Tongcheng Wu's Ancient Text Reader. Wu Rulun's comments on Chu Ci are mainly based on the Tongcheng school of Chu Ci,which is also relat-ed to the printing and dissemination of the selected works. Wu Rulun's comments on Chu Ci,influenced by the Tongcheng School of ancient lit-erature,start from the aspects of theory,textual evidence,rhetoric,and so on,have the characteristics of history,literature and simple learning.