A Study on the Biographies of the Character in the History of the Song Dynasty Quoted in the Remaining Volumes of the Yongle Canon
As the largest ancient encyclopedias in the history of China,the Yongle Canon extensively quoted ancient books of Song and Yuan Dynasties,which has important literature value.The existing Yongle Canon contains 103 bi-ographies of the character from the History of the Song Dynasty,including 79 complete biographies and 22 ex-cerpts.And 2 biographies are not from the History of the Song Dynasty,which were mistakenly recorded by the com-pilers.In the source of biographies of the character,although the Yongle Canon is only labelled as quoted from the History of the Song Dynasty,it may in fact refer to other literature such as Huang Song Tong Jian Chang Bian Ji Shi Ben Mo,Dong Du Shi Lue,Wu Chen Xiu Shi Zhuan,Yu Hu Qing Hua,and Zhu Zi Yu Lei.Through sorting out the citations,examining the source of the citations,and giving examples to illustrate the collation value of the History of the Song Dynasty recorded in the Yongle Canon,in order to better understand the compilation format and value of the Yongle Canon.
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