Selected Works of Zhaoming (Set of Five Volumes)

"Selected Works of Zhaoming", also known as "Selected Works", is an earlier collection of poems and essays in China. It contains more than 700 poems and essays by more than 130 authors from the Zhou Dynasty to the Six Dynasties before Liang Dynasty. It was compiled and selected by Xiao Tong, the eldest son of Emperor Wu of the Southern Dynasties Liang Dynasty, organized by literati. The content of this book can be roughly divided into three major categories: Fu, poetry, and essays, which are further divided into 38 subcategories. His rigorous selection of materials and attention to vocabulary have made a clear distinction between literature and history in China since the pre-Qin Dynasty. "Selected Works of Zhaoming" carefully selects materials and pays attention to vocabulary, and most of the selected works are elegant. In the eyes of literati in the past, it has always been regarded as a textbook of literature and a must-read book for scholars. It has been circulated for more than a thousand years. Due to the advantages of "Selected Works" itself, its influence is far deeper and wider than other collections of poems of the same type. In the Tang Dynasty, poetry was used to select scholars, and the literature of the Tang Dynasty had a close inheritance relationship with the literature of the Six Dynasties. Therefore, "Selected Works" became the most appropriate model for people to study poetry, even alongside the Classics and Biographies.