Re-Study on Wei Hong and the 'Preface of Mao Poetry'

摘要

The author's question of "Preface of Mao Poetry" is a problem that scholars have argued for over a thousand years. The relationship between Wei Hong and "Preface of Mao Poetry" is one of the cores of this problem. There is a sentence of "the Literature of Queens" in the Fuyang Han bamboo slips, which shows that before Wei Hong wrote "The Preface", "Mao Poetry" had the initial sentence. Wei Hong opposes to set the "Zuo's Spring and Autumn" as the Chinese classical philology, and the preface related to "the Commentary of Zuo" in "Preface of Mao Poetry" should not be written by Wei Hong. According to the statistics of the simplified Chinese characters, it is judged that "the Biography of Mao Poetry" in "Book of Han: Literature" contains a much smaller amount of "the Preface of Poetry", which indicates that Wei Hong is only one of the author for "Mao Poetry" and he should have added prefaces related to "Shangshu" and etiquette.