A Summery on Exploring Bai-Kong Liutie

• Main Authors: WANG WEI-GWO, 王偉國
• Other Authors: 劉文起教授
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7xdejr

碩士 === 東吳大學 === 中國文學系 === 103 === The purpose of this paper is to analyze the designation, the completion, the stylistic classification and influences of Bai-Kong Liutie, or the Master Bai and Master Kong's Collections of Categorized Matters in the Six Tablets. The full name of Bai-Kong Liutie is the Tang-Song Dynasties’ Bai-Kong Liutie. It is a combination of thirty scrolls of Baishi Liutie and thirty scrolls the Hou Liutie, also called Kongshi Liutei, done by the anonymous in the late South Song dynasty and were transformed into a one hundred analytical scrolls in the Ming dynasty . As to the designation of Liutie, scholars in the past tend to think the title Liutie was originated from Tiejing , the classics of Tie; however, the author of this paper thinks that it’s more accurate to espouse that it came from Tieshi , the tests of Tie. In terms of stylistic classifications, the Bai-Kong Liutie was found to be in the vein of the Baishi Liutie and the Kongshi Liutie, and fell into the same stylistic genre of the Tang-Song Bai-Kong Liutie. But after a careful, item by item comparison on the entries among Bai-Kong Liutie, Baishi Liutie and Kongshi Liuties, it was found that there were variations and differences in the three scrolls. The Bai-Kong Liutie was categorized into the type of Reference Books in the Division of Philosophy in the Collectaneum Siku Quanshu. The scroll was seen as the most diversified book among its contemporaries and according the calculations of this paper, its content was mostly quoted among the same type of classics in Sui and Tang dynasties. Some of Bai Juyi’s entries such as “Luli”, “Lulu” and “Nong”, are quite unique; the latter two even appeared more than just once??. The entries also showed Bais’ “humanistic approach”, since he incorporated “Filial Piety”, “Irreverence”, “Disloyalty”, “Disobedience” and “Damage”??. These entries are nowhere to be found in other cotemporary scrolls. When compared with the later Reference Books such as Yuanjianleihan, the Imperial Ancient Art of Letter, similar texts of Liutie were mostly followed in the Yuanjian Reference Book, and the only differences were that there were more classifications and etries. One addition was that subdivisions such as “Official Titles”, “Policies”, “Characteristics of People” and “Clothes” were added for the purpose of reflecting its time. On its influences, Liutie was first categorized into the Division of Philosophy and much information in the Reference Books in later generations was based on it. Many used it as supporting evidences while a limited few used it to disagree. A number of books’ titles, including Shijing Liutie, Qianhan Liutie, Shishi Liutie and Dushi Liutie, respectively ranging from the Division of Classics to the other three Confucian Divisions of History, Philosophy and Literature, were derived from it. This is one of the biggest findings in this paper and hopefully a contribution can be made to the studies.