Abstract:The scholar Wan Xihuai in the Qing Dynasty wrote a book called Different Texts Research of the Thirteen Classics composed of eighty volumes. It collected different texts of the Confucian classics from various documents before the Tang Dynasty, compiling and investigating chapter by chapter, word by word. It used various works to prove the classics, using the methods of self-proofreading, pair proofreading, other proofreading and inferred proofreading, especially characterized by other proofreading. The book has both academic and reference book properties with rich references and detailed formats, involving various types of different texts, such as original and borrowed words, different words, common words, erroneous words, missing words, superfluous words, inverse words, ancient and modern words, and differences in historical materials. This is of great significance for studying the appearance and changes of ancient classics in the era of manuscripts, for correcting and explaining classic texts, and for studying the relationship between the form, sound, and meaning of Chinese characters. It still has a high reference value today. |