Mao shi zhuan jian  Mao’s Poetry Biography 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2569862B

  Author(s)

  Mao, Heng

  City

  Beijing 

  Country

  China 

  Language

  Chinese (simplified) 

  ISBN

  9787101135008 

  Date of Publication

  2018 

  Publisher

  Zhonghua shu ju  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  513 

  Series

  Zhongguo gu dian wen xue ji ben cong shu 

  Subject

  History, 19th Century and Earlier

  Subject

  Literature

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  毛亨

  Publisher

  中華書局  

• Description

  Mao’s Poetry Biography The twenty-volume "Biography of Mao's Poems", written by Mao Heng in the Western Han Dynasty and Zheng Xuan's Notes in the Eastern Han Dynasty, is the first complete annotated version of the "Book of Songs" in existence. From the pre-Qin Dynasty to the Han Dynasty, the Five Classics were mainly passed down through oral instruction from teachers and students. It was only in the Western Han Dynasty that the Five Classics were recorded by classics students, forming a relatively fixed text. In the process of teaching, respective family methods have also been formed, so the texts and annotations are also different. For example, Tai Chi has Chen Style Tai Chi, Yang Style Tai Chi, etc. There were four main annotators of the Book of Songs in the Han Dynasty, namely "Lu Shi", "Qi Shi", "Han Shi", and "Mao Shi". Mao Shi became an official school in the Eastern Han Dynasty and became more popular after Zheng Xuan's annotation. The three families of Lu, Qi and Han gradually disappeared. By the Tang Dynasty, the "Biography of Mao's Poems" was the only one in the world. The texts of the "Book of Songs" that we read today are almost all copies of the "Biography of Mao's Poems".