The Han Shu Yi Wen Zhi recorded a wide range of dictionaries in Han Dynasty, only Cang Jie, Ji Jiu and Analytical Dictionary of Characters had been passed down. Apart from these, scholars of the Qing Dynasty collected the lost content of Fan Jiang, Xun Zuan, Cang Jie Xun Gu, Quan Xue, which can help us to recognize and deepen the understanding of the Han Dynasty dictionaries. There are eleven kinds of books of them, reflecting the strict paradigm of editing in the Qing Dynasty. Among them, Ma Guohan’s edition contains the largest number of articles, with the strengths of detailed evidence and fine proofreading. His weakness is that it mistakenly compiles character sequences of anonymous texts as sequences of Analytical Dictionary of Characters. The disagreement among the people is whether the references to Sima Xiangru and Yang Xiong in Analytical Dictionary of Characters claim should be subsumed in Fan Jiang and Xun Zuan. The second difference lies in the collection of scattered writing style of the exegesis of Fan Jiang, Xun Zuan, Cang Jie Xun Gu, Quan Xue.
On the early stage of Emperor Qianlong period, Qianlong ordered the
ministers to sort out interior cultural relics. Therefore ministers successively
compiled four antiques catalogue, they are "Midian Zhulin
Buddhism and Taoism paintings appreciation", "Shiqu Baoji paintings appreciation",
"Ancient bronze vessels collection appreciation in Qing Dynasty"
and "Tianlu Linlang official books collection catalogue appreciation"
respectively. The stylistic rules and layout of the first two was borrowed
from Gao Shiqi "Jiang Cun Xiao Xia Lu". The stylistic rules and layout of
the record of "Ancient bronze vessels collection appreciation in Qing
Dynasty" was borrowed from Wang Fu "Bo Gu Picture" and Lv Dalin
"The Archaeological Picture". To a great extent, the stylistic rules and layout
of "Tianlu Linlang official books collection catalogue appreciation" was
inherited from the connoisseur ideology of "Shiqu Baoji paintings appreciation"
and "Ancient bronze vessels collection appreciation in Qing Dynasty",
which was the evolutionary adaptation of style reference and actual situation
of books identification and collection. As the classic examples of official
connoisseur catalogue, "Tianlu Linlang official books collection catalogue
appreciation" had a significant impact on Qing dynasty bibliography.
As the development of textology in Qing Dynasty, the connoisseur gradually
flourished in society. Under its inspiration and influence, the edition
bibliography of Qing dynasty continued to develop.