There are many versions of Kangxi Dictionary, among which there is an engraving of the Forbidden City by Kangxi, also called Wuyingdian Edition. There are two kinds of paper: Hua Kai paper and Taishilian paper. Most of Kangxi's imperial palace engravings were presented by the imperial palace, and the binding was very luxurious, which was rarely seen by the people. In addition, there are reprints of Daoguang's seven years and other imperial court woodcuts, as well as Shi Yinben, typography and photocopies that appeared in the late Qing Dynasty. In the late Qing Dynasty, the lithographs printed by Shanghai Wentong Bookstore were the most popular and the most widely distributed edition. In the forty-ninth year of Kangxi, Kangxi called thirty scholars, including Zhang Yushu and Chen Tingjing, and began to compile Kangxi Dictionary. It took them six years to organize traditional Chinese characters on a large scale, and they finished their editing work in the fifty-fifth year of Kangxi. Kangxi Dictionary absorbed the experience of compiling dictionaries in past dynasties. The book is divided into twelve episodes, from subset to collection. Each episode is divided into upper, middle and lower volumes, which are arranged with 2 14 radicals respectively. A total of 47035 words were included. The content quotes ancient poetry to trace its etymology, and also indicates the usage of past dynasties to prove its change. After the publication of Kangxi Dictionary, the social influence was enormous. Its characters, sounds, meanings and documentary evidence are widely quoted, and its style has also become the blueprint for the later publication of word books. As one of the important references of China culture, it has extremely high research value.
Kangxi Dictionary, as a master of ancient Chinese word books, has the following characteristics: it receives more words, records different styles and common writing methods of words, and lists those with similar fonts but different sounds and meanings as "doubt", "preparation" and "correction"; The phonetic notation is the most complete, the sound is complete, and all rhyme books are arranged in order; Explaining the ancients, most of the righteous examples are original sources. These advantages greatly facilitated the feudal scholars with strong retro ideas, so they were praised as "rigorous style, accurate textual research, the source of refined Chinese characters, and the golden beam of the art garden" (Wang Ci). Although there are some shortcomings, since the introduction of Wang in the Qing Dynasty, researchers have been constantly making corrections to it, and on the basis of it, a Chinese Dictionary and a Chinese Dictionary have appeared. However, due to the different compilation purposes, Kangxi Dictionary focuses on the "ancient" and its successors serve the "present", so it still plays an irreplaceable role today, that is, reading ancient books, sorting out ancient documents and engaging in ancient prose. Since the publication of Kangxi Dictionary, there are many versions, including 100 according to incomplete statistics. Now it is mainly summarized as follows.
(1) Forty-two volumes, The Book of Wuying Temple in the fifty-fifth year of Kangxi, which is divided into twelve episodes, each with three volumes, entitled "General Table", "proofreading", "distinguishing similarities" and "textual research", with "addendum" and "reference" at the end. The characters of radicals and parts are in stroke order, and the word list occupies two lines, and the interpretation is double lines. Under every word, there are, Guang Yun, Ji Yun, Gu, and so on. They are all examples of listing first, then teaching meaning, and collecting ancient books and dictionaries extensively. If there is any textual research, attach it to the back, and then list the words separately, which makes them read differently. The form and meaning of the word "Fan" are very organized. "Everything that is finished ... is adapted from official script ... and other styles, vulgar books and mistakes ... are attached to the back ... which are contained in ancient books, and all of them are unacceptable" (summary of Siku). This is the foundation of later generations. Even after the appearance of Daoguang Wuyingtang, it is still the most popular book. For example, Sku edition and dictionary edition are based on the same language publishing house. It should be noted that there is no seal script in Kangxi Dictionary, which was added by later publishers.
(2) Forty-two volumes, The Book of Wu Yingtang in the 11th year of Daoguang, revised by Wang. In the seven years of Daoguang, more than 90 people proofread Kangxi dictionary every year. It took five years to change 2588 places, dig out the original and reprint it. At the same time, Wang compiled the collation words into twelve volumes of Textual Research of Dictionaries. It is precisely because of the emergence of a single edition of dictionary textual research and the Chinese people's psychology of respecting the past and ignoring the present that the revision of this school has little influence, perhaps out of caution. It should be noted that there is no seal script in Kangxi Dictionary, which was added by later publishers.
(3) Forty-three volumes, namely, textual research on Wuying Hall and dictionary in the fifty-fifth year of Kangxi. For the above reasons, people who intend to absorb Daoguang Temple have adopted this simple and safe way. The most popular and influential Zhonghua Book Company belongs to this system.
(4) Photocopying of Daoguang Temple+Dictionary Textual Research+Kangxi Dictionary Textual Research. Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House rediscovered Daoguang Classic Edition in 1990, compared the changes of Daoguang Classic Edition with the textual research of dictionaries, and found that they were different. It also carefully studied the textual research of Kangxi Dictionary in Watanabe, Japan, and published Wang's revised Kangxi Dictionary in 1996. This book is a rare edition (Wang Jia) The prefix is based on Xu Xuan's school-based Shuo Wen Jie Zi, with a radical directory in front of the page and a four-corner number index behind it.
(5) Punctuation in Daoguang Temple. On the basis of Daoguang Temple Edition, referring to other editions, the original book is moved as a text reference and supplement, old and new fonts are used, words and semantic examples are interpreted in a new style, a comparison table of old and new words is listed, punctuation and pinyin are added to the whole book, and it is arranged horizontally in the traditional way. Seal script is the same as the old version. There is a four-corner number index. Chinese Dictionary Publishing House, 2002.
(6) Based on Daoguang Temple, the General Explanation of Kangxi Dictionary was collated, and some achievements such as Textual Research of Dictionary, Textual Research of Kangxi Dictionary and Textual Research of Huang Kangxi Dictionary were incorporated into the text, and some methods such as phonetic notation, simplified characters, horizontal punctuation and radical detection were used to deal with it, and the key method of letter cutting was deleted. Times Literature and Art Publishing House, 1997.
(7) Simplified Chinese Characters and Horizontal Arrangement, Beijing Normal University Press, 1997.
(VIII) Comparison of Modern Retrieval and Phonetic Annotation, China Archives Collection Edition, China Archives Publishing House, 2002.