Textual Research on Song Qi's Tracks and Poems in Bashu
During the Jiayou period of the Northern Song dynasty,Song Qi worked as a magistrate of a prefecture in Chengdu,and guarded Xichuan.He stayed in Bashu for more than two years.Song Qi governed Shu with little fan-fare,put efforts into revitalizing culture and education,and educated intellectuals.At the same time,wherever he was,he could follow local customs,and shared joy with the people,which made him popular with the people.In his leisure time,he wrote poetry lyric and had a collection of X izhou Wei Gao(《西州猥稿》),which unfortunately has been lost.At present,89 poems written by him after he entered Shu areas are compiled from The Poems of the Whole Song Dynasty,most of them can be restored to its original texts.In addition,92 articles written in Shu,inclu-ding prefaces,letters,and official documents,were examined and corrected from The Poems of the Whole Song Dy-nasty and the addendum.Based on the above-mentioned poems and essays,combining with the related documents such as history books,stele biography,local chronicles,notes and so on,the author does a textual research on his traces and activities in Bashu,and recount them in order of year and month.
Song Qipoems and articles written in Bashutracks in Bashuchronicle