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Abstract The self-annotation of Tang poetry is divided into three types:title note,interlinear note and end note.The title note is below the title;the interlinear note is among the lines;and the end note is attached to the end of a poem.The interlinear note annotates the rhyme,words, figures,places,current affairs,historical events,allusions,etc.of a poem.Generally,it is similar to the notes of Confucian classics, historical records, philosophical writings and miscellaneous works in nature.However,the subject of the self-annotation of Tang poetry is not the interlinear note but the title note.The title note is the main mode of the self-annotation of Tang poetry.In the self-annotations of Tang poetry,the interlinear note appeared far posterior to the title note.The self-annotations made by the poets in early boom time of the Tang Dynasty are almost all title notes.From the period of Du Fu to the middle and late Tang Dynasty,the interlinear notes started to be increased, but the title note was still the subj ect of the self-annotation of late Tang poetry. Unlike the notes of general ancient books and records,the title note of Tang poetry neither aims at solving a problem, nor elucidates the word meaning, sentence meaning and poetic meaning of a poem.The title notes of Tang poetry mainly include such types as the note of the creation form,the note of the author's official position,the note of the creation date,the note of the creation place,the note of the origin of creation and the note of the creation background.The writing date of some title notes synchronizes with the creation date of poems.However,the creation date of a large number of title notes does not synchronize with that of the poems.It is because the generation and formation of the title note of Tang poetry is different from that of the notes of general ancient books and records.Most of the Tang poems appearing in the later ages were collated anthologies of poets.Seen from the original books of Tang poems,i.e.,the manuscripts and stone inscriptions of Tang poems,the original writing forms of Tang poems are much more complicated than that of anthologies in the original inscription,sending/presenting and spreading process.In addition to the title,lines and preface,a poem often includes:name,mostly the name of the author's official position;prefatory remarks,recording the creation date and place;and poem foreword,recording the origin of creation and the creation background.These are the text sources of the title notes of Tang poetry.In other words,the title notes of Tang poetry are from such information as the name,prefatory remarks and poem foreword inscribed in front of or behind a poem by the compilers of an anthology in the compiling process,and such information is stored below poem titles in the form of two-line small characters.Some directly become title notes without being modified,showing the characteristics of synchronizing with the creation date of poems.Some are slightly altered,showing the characteristics of not synchronizing with the creation date of the poems.Nevertheless,we know very little about how the Tang people added,deleted or revised the notes in the process of compiling anthologies.The exploration on the formation process of title notes of Tang poetry undoubtedly reveals an important issue in the compilation of anthologies of Tang poems.
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