Peiwen Yunfu
The Peiwen Yunfu (
rime
, the dictionary serves the composition of poetry.
Like the Ming Dynasty Wuche yunrui (五車韻瑞), were incomplete and sometimes erroneous. Over twenty editors, including Zhang Yushu (張玉書, 1642–1711) and Chen Tingjing (陳廷敬, 1638–1712), began the compilation in 1704 and finished in 1711. In 1716, the emperor ordered the creation of a supplement, the Yunfu shiyi (韻府拾遺), which was completed in 1720.
The Peiwen yunfu is a large dictionary (212 卷 "volumes; fascicles") of two-, three-, and
four-character idioms
. It contains roughly 560,000 items under 10,257 entries arranged by 106 rhymes. Classical allusions and phrases are classified under the rhyme of their last character, with numerous quotations given to illustrate usage.
Although the Peiwen yunfu, which
Kangxi dictionary, it can be helpful in tracing literary usages. "Whenever names or phrases are met with which are not understood," say Teng and Biggerstaff, "this is the first work which should be consulted."[2]
See also
References
- ^ Legge, James (1893). The Chinese Classics, vol. 1: Confucian Analects (2nd ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 135.
- ISBN 0-674-03851-7.
Further reading
- Parker, E.H. (1885). "Contributions Towards the Topography and Ethnology of Central Asia: 1. Extracts from the P'êi-wên Yün-fu." China Review (1885), Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 337–386; Vol. 13, No 6, pp. 375–386; Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 39–49. All these works may be downloaded from: [1](accessed 27 Feb. 2011).
- Martin Gimm (1983), "Zur Entstehungsgeschichte der chinesischen Literaturkonkordanz P'eiwen yün-fu." In: T'oung Pao, 69 (1983), p. 159-174; Addenda 70 (1984), p. 279-286.
External links
- Peiwen yunfu 佩文韻府, Ulrich Theobald
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