Proofreading and Appending of Poems by Li Yuan,a Gifted Poet in the Late Tang Dynasty:Focused on The Collection of Ten Selected Poems with In-text Notes
Included in The Collection of Ten Selected Poems compiled by a man of letters in ancient Korea are those consisting of 8 lines with 7 characters in each,contributed by Li Yuan,a gifted poet in the late Tang Dynasty.Six of them are poems undiscovered for long,including The Changing Man,a poem inspiring subsequent speaking and singing literature and art.Afterwards,Zi Shan,a monk in the country,encyclopaedically annotated the collection based on the literature of ancient China.As a result,the collection,newly entitled The Collection of Ten Selected Poems with In-text Notes,has been handed down from generation to generation.The precious rem-nants of The Record of Ten Administrative Divisions and The Record of Geography in Shanxi,also lost for long,have been preserved,but the note-based collection is ironized and criticized in academic circles,because it has many errors,one of which is that the character 鲁 is often mistaken for the character 鱼.On the basis of the historical background,the paper attempts to approach the work by distinguishing between good and bad according to changes in the name systems,history and geography,as well as developments in the languages,etc.
The Collection of Ten Selected Poems with In-text Noteslate Tang Dynastygifted man of letters from SichuanLi Yuanproofreading and appending