Chapter 10 Chapter 3 Series

The word "cong" means total, gathering, and public. A set of books that collects many kinds of books and publishes them together with one name is a series of books.Because the series is compiled and engraved into a large book from many individual works, it is also called "hui engraved book".Compilers gather many books (ranging from a few to as many as hundreds or thousands) that they think are important or rare, give them a general name, and engrave and hand them down from generation to generation.The characteristic of this kind of books is the so-called "each preserves the original", that is, the books collected in it can preserve their original appearance.It's like a jungle made of many trees, and the trees stand on their own.Of course, not all the books collected in the series are complete from beginning to end, and some are excerpted and selected, but they are all independent.

The word "series" is used together, which was first seen in Han Yu's poem "Picking and Pecking" in the Tang Dynasty: "There are two editions for the door, and the series of books is in between".But this is not the title of the book, but the meaning of closing the door and gathering many books to read at home.As the title of the book, it started from "Li Ze Series" written by Lu Guimeng in the Tang Dynasty; but this book is just his personal essays.In addition, Wang Mao [Mao Mao] of the Song Dynasty had "Ye Ke Series", which is an article verified by classics.Although the above two books are titled series, they are not actually what we call series.However, some books do not mark the name of the series, but have the reality of the series; such as "Confucianism Alert".In the Ming Dynasty, Cheng Rong edited the writings of the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties, and compiled them into the "Han Wei Congshu", which can be regarded as a series of books with both name and reality.

There are many other names for the series of books: series of engravings, series of magazines, series of notes, remittances, remittances, remittances of remittances, compilations, complete books, posthumous collections, collections, etc. Although the names are different, they are actually series of books.