《文苑英华》录文“不作选择”辨

Analysis of the View That WenYuanYing Hua didn't Select Outstanding Works

学界多认为《文苑英华》录文上主要作用是保留前代文献,不作选择,《艺文类聚》、《初学记》等是其重要的录文来源。《文苑英华》几经校勘,造成选文上的一些讹误纰漏是难免的,但不应忽略《文苑英华》选文"撮其精要"的文学价值。

Most scholars think that WenYuanYingHua retained a lot of literature, but it wasn＇t good at selecting out-standing works. Encyclopedias such as YiWenLeJju and ChuXueJi were one of important sources of it. Many collates have been made on WenYuanYingHua, so it is easily be misunderstand. But we can not ignore the literature value of gathering works in ＂selecting outstanding＂.