Wenyuan Yinghua
Wenyuan Yinghua | |||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 文苑英華 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 文苑英华 | ||||||
Literal meaning | literary flowers brilliant blossoms | ||||||
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The Wenyuan Yinghua (Chinese: 文苑英華), sometimes translated as Finest Blossoms in the Garden of Literature, is an anthology of poetry, odes, songs and writings from the Liang dynasty to the Five Dynasties era. The book was compiled by a team of officers headed by Li Fang under an imperial order from 982 to 986, during the Song dynasty. It is divided into 1,000 volumes and 38 genus by sections with 19,102 pieces of works written by about 2,200 authors, much of the crucial compilation of the writings came from the Tang dynasty scholars. It is considered one of the Four Great Books of Song.
References[]
- Cheng, Yizhong, Wenyuan Yinghua ("Finest Blossoms in the Garden of Literature "). Encyclopedia of China, 1st ed.
- Kurz, Johannes L. Das Kompilationsprojekt Song Taizongs (reg. 976-997). (Bern: Lang, 2003), 103–141.
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- Chinese prose texts
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- 10th-century Chinese books
- Song dynasty literature
- Leishu
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- 10th century in China
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