The Development of Ji-Department of the Chinese Ancient Catalogue and the Academic Trend of Chinese Classical Literature

The catalogue of ancient Chinese books experiences a historical development from sexpartite approach to quartered method,While the catalogue of collected literary works displays a path of dissociation and evolution.The progress of Shifulue—Wenhanzhi—Wenjilu—Ji indicates ancient literature′s historical development from spontaneity and being fettered to the state of consciousness and independence.This kind of development,which reflects the development of ancient literary idea,is embodied in the category of collected literary works,and its precision and intensification are gradually realized in the progress of great and minor prefaces as well as abstracts.