《四库全书总目》对总集编纂之批评

Criticisms from General Catalog of the Complete Library of the Four Treasures to the compilation of Complete Library of the Four Treasures

《四库全书总目》堪称清代乾嘉学术的代表性作品,总集的编纂也是清代学术风尚所及,《四库全书总目》对历代总集均有著录,从其对总集的定义到各总集的著录,凸现出了批评意见,即批判真赝错杂,批判先自表彰,批判互相标榜,批判略远详近,批判兼收滥采。

General Catalog of the Complete Library of the Four Treasures has been regarded as an academic master piece in the Qianlong and Jiaqing Periods of the Qing Dynasty. The compilation of Complete Library of the Four Treasures embodied the academic style of the Qing Dynasty. General Catalog of the Complete Library of the Four Treasures made descriptions of various editions of Complete Library of the Four Treasures compiled by other dynasties. From the definitions and descriptions of other editions of Complete Library of the Four Treasures, the criticisms were spectacular in the following five aspects, such as： real writings and fake ones jumbled; self praises; excessively boosting each other; detailed and comprehensive comments on the present and rough and sketchy comments on the past and all-inclusiveness, etc.