周代藏书考

周代文献的收藏与流传经历了三个阶段。西周至春秋前期，藏书机制完善，周朝的室、府与列国的正宫、礼官署、象魏行使藏书职能，文籍藏在官家，完好无损。春秋后期，官方的藏书机制遭破坏，官家所藏文献日渐散失，私家藏书开始出现；幸赖史、府世职恪尽职守，其所掌管的文献犹可凭信。战国时期，官家藏书遭受严重破坏，传世文献大量流落民间，私人藏书盛行；私人著述活跃，成为私家藏书的一个重要来源。由于散失窜乱巨至，传世文献难以凭信，需疑择而用，甚至出现焚书的前兆。

The Textual Research on the Library System in the Zhou Dynasty

There were three stages of collecting and spreading books in the Zhou Dynasty: (l) From the Xizhou stage to early days of the SPring and Autumn Period, the mechanism of library was whole. The Zhou king's books room and the six feudal officials' books mansions in Zhou royal, the dukes or Princes' Principal palaces, the Ministry of Rites' officials and the XiangWei where Publishing government decree .in the various countries performed the collection books function, books were collected by government so that books were in good condition. (2) In later days of the Spring and Autumn Period, the mechanism of official library was destroyed, the official collecting books were lost day by day. The Personal collecting books arose. (3) In the Warring States Period, the official collecting books were wrecked seriously. A large number of books washed away. The Personal collecting books were in vague. Meanwhile, the personal writings were so active that there as a source for personal collecting books. Because the collecting books were lost and falsified seriously, the books handed down from ancient times weren' t trusted by us-er, so much so that there was the forewarning to be burnt.