Yang Shen's New Annotation of the Scripture of Mountains and Rivers and Its Textological Achievement
In terms of the ancient research history of the Scripture of Mountains and Rivers,the textual research achievements of the scholars in the Qing Dynasty are the most fruitful.However,the textology of the Qing Dynasty was actually a precedent created by the scholars of the Ming Dynasty.During the period of Zhengde and Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty,Yangshen is famous for his abundant knowledge.In the impractical academic atmosphere,Yang wrote New Annotation of the Scripture of Mountains and Rivers with the multi-evidence method and realistic spirit.As the first most influential annotation version,followed by Guopu's edition,Yang Shen's New Annotation of the Scripture of Mountains and Rivers not only opened the textual research atmosphere of the Scripture of Mountains and Rivers in the Ming and Qing dynasties,but also laid the foundation for the flourishing of the textual research in the Qing Dynasty.
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