Chapter 11 Section II Types of Book Series

Due to the difference in purpose and content, the series of books can be divided into two categories. The first is comprehensive series of books: all books of various natures or at least two or more of the four major categories (classics, history, subsections, and collections) are included in the comprehensive series.The comprehensive series can be further divided into general series (a miscellaneous book), local series (a county series), clan series, and personal series.The general series is the most important part of the series, some of which cover a wide range and include four volumes, such as "Baichuan Xuehai", "Shuoyu", "Xuehai Leibian"; there are also books dedicated to a certain era, such as " Han Wei Series", "Tang and Song Series".The local series is based on the region, and only collects the writings of people in a certain area, such as "Jingchuan Series" and "Yuzhang Series".The clan series takes one surname as the scope, and only collects writings by members of the same clan, such as "The Seventh Generation Posthumous Letters of the Fang Clan in Tongcheng" and "Chao Clan Series".The personal series is based on one person, and only collects one person's writings (but must include two or more of the four types of writings), such as "Chuanshan's Last Letter", "Dai's Last Letter" and so on.In addition, most of the lost books are fragments of broken bamboo slips, which are considered to be independent books, but are different from other genres, such as "Huang Shi Yishu Kao" and "Yuhanshanfang Collection of Lost Books". , should also be a comprehensive series, but if it is an album, it can be included in a specialized series.

The second is specialized series of books: some are classified according to classics, histories, sons, and collections, such as "Tongzhitang Jingjie", "Huangqing Jingjie", "Bai Na (na Na) Book Twenty-Four History", " Historiography Series", "Ten Masters", "Hundred Masters", "Qian Kun Zhengqi Collection", "Han, Wei and Six Dynasties One Hundred and Three Masters Collection".Some are determined by subject, such as "Danggui Caotang Medical Series" and "Four Kinds of Chinese and Western Mathematics".Literary series are also classified according to genre, such as "Twenty-Six Collections of Tang Poems", "Ancient and Modern Talks about the Sea", "Selected Songs of Yuan Dynasty" and so on.There are even those classified by region, such as "Jiangzuo Three Masters' Poetry Notes", "Zhexi Six Schools' Poetry Notes" and so on; Family Collection" and so on.In general, some works in this discipline are gathered to form a series of books.