Preface
by Zha Fuxi, edited by Wu Zhao.¹
from Qinqu Jicheng, Vol. 8
Beijing, Zhonghua Shuju Chuban Faxing, 1989

[This is a] hidden old stored book from the late Qing period in the collection of the Music Research Bureau of the Chinese Academy of Arts. It was "compiled" by the Ming dynasty founder of the Yushan Qin School, Yan Cheng of Changshu. The original book was printed in Ming Wanli emperor's jiayin year (1614 CE), with the original volume stored with the Yan family in Changshu. Because of meeting the ravaging and burning by soldiers at the end of the Ming dynasty, "half the printing blocks were missing", Yan Zheng's grandson Yan Bing, in the Qing Shunzhi emperor's bingshen year (1656) "examined the original manuscript in the family collection and by hand wrote out the missing parts, contributing these for the transfer to printing blocks, editing them to form the complete book". (For this writing see in afterword by Yan Bing in the Songxuanguan Qinpu rare volumes in the collection of the Shanghai and Nanjing libraries). Yan Zhang's foreward points out....(translation incomplete)

 
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