皇甫湜文集注释(卷一及卷二)

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English: Huangfu Shi (777–835), courtesy name Chizheng, was a native of Xin’an in Muzhou (present-day Chun’an County, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province). A renowned literatus and poet of the Tang dynasty, he held the official post of Langzhong (郎中, Bureau Director) in the Ministry of Works. As a disciple of Han Yu, he became a key figure in the mid-to-late Tang “Classical Prose Movement.” Importantly, he also played a significant role in the development of Confucian thought as it gradually integrated Buddhist and Daoist philosophies, contributing to the evolution that would later culminate in Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism. The original collection of his writings, titled Collected Works of Huangfu Chizheng (《皇甫持正集》), comprises six volumes. For the present annotated edition, the three-volume version included in the Complete Prose of the Tang Dynasty (《全唐文》) has been used as the base text. Building upon this, the collection has been expanded to nine volumes, with the addition of an epitaph composed by Huangfu Shi. This volume contains the first two fascicles, including six fu (rhapsodies in the classical prose-poetic form) and one ce (a policy proposal), accompanied by nearly 560 detailed annotations. 中文: 皇甫湜(777–835),字持正,睦州新安人(今浙江省杭州市淳安縣)。唐代著名文學家、詩人,曾任工部郎中(正六品官,掌管營造水利等政務)。早年從韓愈學古文,為中晚唐「古文運動」的重要代表人物之一。更重要的是,他在儒學吸收佛、道思想的過程中,扮演了關鍵角色,為宋明理學的漸次形成奠定了思想基礎。 其文集原題為《皇甫持正集》,共六卷。本次注釋整理,以《全唐文》所收三卷本為底本,在此基礎上擴編為九卷,並增補皇甫湜所撰碑文一篇。 本書收錄《皇甫持正集》前兩卷,收入賦六篇、策一篇,並附詳細注釋約五百六十條,期以助讀者深入理解其文辭風格與思想旨趣。

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