英文摘要
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A noted scholar in the Qing dynasty, Wu Renchen was born in the fifth year of the reign of Chongzhen Emperor in the Ming dynasty and died in the thirty-second year of the reign of Kangxi Emperor (1693) with courtesy names of Zhiyi, Erqi and Zhenghong, and an art name of Tuoyuan. Wu's ancestral hometown was in Putian, Fujian and he lived In Renhe, Zhejiang (today's Hanzhou). Wu's "Shan Hai Jing Guangzhu" was widely known in the Qing dynasty. Completed in the fifth year of the reign of Kangxi Emperor and carved in the following year, the "Shan Hai Jing Guangzhu" was prefaced by Cai Shaobing and Wang Shihuai from the same Prefacture, both of whom pointed out that Wu's book was based on the drawings of Shu Ya and expanded into five volumes. The volumes are Lingzhi (spirits and gods), Yiyu (foreign lands), Shouzhu (animals), Yuqin (birds) and Linjie (fishes and shellfishes), which comprise 144 drawings placed in the beginning of each volume, following a popular way of drawing classification in the Qing dynasty. Bookshops added Wu's drawings into the annotations of the subsequent scholars (e.g. addition of the originally non-existing drawings into the works of Bi Yuan and Hao Yixing after their death). In Fujian and Guangdong some simple editions also appeared, among which there were even colored editions. The colored books were based on the drawings of Wu's "Shan Hai Jing Guangzhu". Wu's five volumes of drawings had a significant effect in the Qing dynasty. This paper will give an in-depth discussion on "Shan Hai Jing Guangzhu" and the relevant images in it.
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