Minor Literature and Ancient Books: New Books from the South
by Qian Yi
About This Novel
This is a Song Dynasty notebook novel with mixed content. It was included in the Sikuquanshu compiled by Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty. Readers who are interested in such topics should not miss this book. Most of the contents of "New Book of the South" record events of the Tang Dynasty, and a few are related to the Five Dynasties. Most of the anecdotes about people mentioned in the book are scholar-bureaucrats. Opening this book, the picture of the bureaucracy in the Tang Dynasty comes to mind. The work mainly records the rise and fall of major official positions, the evolution of the political system and official rituals, and is of great reference value for studying the political history of the Tang Dynasty. At the same time, the book contains many records about the imperial examination system and writers' stories in the Tang Dynasty, which are also beneficial to the study of literary history.
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