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The collection of folk songs and odes for the Book of Poetry (Shih-ching/ Shijing) was in nature a social research project in ancient China. This paper studies the Book of Poetry as a research report, probing into the background of the assignment of poetry functionaries as researchers, relevant geographic information and time span, relevant social production and life, the logic of the research, and the social value of the research. As a social research report, the Book of Poetry is of documentary significance to various academic fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we review the newly published fourth-century bce manuscript of the Book of Odes (Shi jing 詩經) in the collection of Anhui University. We describe the preservation and material features of the manuscript, discuss issues of provenance, and compare the text with the received version of the Odes. We conclude that the text of the Odes was already fundamentally stable by the date of the manuscript, and that written versions like the Anda manuscript provided important support for the stability of the text. However, we also argue that the manuscript shows signs of having been produced from memory, rather than sight-copying from another manuscript. We suggest that the function of the Anda manuscript was to support the learning and memorization of the Odes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The means by which the Shi jing was transmitted were, primarily, written texts as well as oral recitation and singing, and the textual features formed by these processes were often quite varied. During the pre-Qin period, written texts were frequently "open documents"; therefore, discrepancies among texts do not necessarily indicate distinctions of relative quality. Moreover, texts with different features do not necessarily belong to different textual systems. Therefore, one should adopt a holistic, open-minded attitude toward early textual forms of the Shi jing , and avoid hastily proceeding from discrepancies of format to rash judgments that they belong to different texts. 摘要: 《詩》的流傳的方式主要有書寫文本和口頭諷誦與歌唱，而所形成的文本面貌往往比較多樣。在先秦時期的文獻屬於「開放性文獻」，文本的差異並不一定表示他們有高下優劣的分別，而不同面貌的文本也不一定就分屬於不同的文本系統。因 此，對於《詩》早期文本的形態，應該採取宏觀和開放的態度，避免遽以形式的差異就斷定它們分屬不同的文本系統。 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In September, 2019, Anhui University published the first volume of Warring States bamboo-slip manuscripts in its collection. The bamboo slips were purchased by the university in 2015 on the antique market. This volume contains ninety-three slips that correspond with all of or portions of fifty-seven poems in the Guo feng 國風 (Airs of the States) section of the Shi jing 詩經 (Classic of Poetry). The manuscript is written in the script of the ancient state of Chu 楚, and thus presumably was robbed from a tomb somewhere in the territory of that state. This preliminary study of the manuscript presents close readings of six representative poems, comparing the versions in the manuscript with those of the received text. It concludes with consideration of how to understand the textual variants apparent in the manuscript, and also the significance of the manuscript for the composition and especially the transmission of the Shi jing in the pre-Qin period. 摘要: 在2019年9月，安徽大學出版了該校收藏戰國竹簡第一本圖錄。這些竹簡是2015年在古董市場購買的。這本圖錄包括93條竹簡，相當於《詩經.國風》 內的57首詩。寫本的文字很明顯是楚國文字，應該說明這批竹簡是從一座楚墓盜墓的。本文對文獻的六首詩作介紹，特別注重寫本和傳世《詩經》 的異文，並且討論異文應該怎樣理解，對先秦時代《詩經》的傳授有什麼 意義。 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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