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Ciferz

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Hello,

I need help translating the following text into English. It is the first time I am reading a text using this type of vocabulary, and along with the classical Chinese names of texts I have issues grasping the meaning of it:

当年鲁迅和胡适作出吴承恩创作《西游记》的唯一依据是天启《淮安府志》卷十九《艺文志. 淮贤文目》于吴承恩名下列「《射阳集》四册,囗卷;《春秋列传序》;《西游记》。」府志对《西游记》的卷数及书的性质都未加说明。而清初黄虞稷《千顷堂书目》卷八史部地理类却著录「吴承恩《西游记》」,可见它不是小说《西游记》。吴承恩《二郎搜山图歌》称二郎神为清源父,和《西游记》不同。

吴氏《禹鼎志》说:「胸中之贮者消尽,独此十数事磊块尚存。」

无论假设此书写作在《西游记》之前或之后,都同洋洋大观的《西游记》不合。

The things in 《》are usually names of classical Chinese books/scrolls, if you cannot translate them that is no problem, I will do so later. I just want to understand the meaning of the overall text after all.

Thanks a lot!

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In those years, Lu Xun and Hu Shi judged that Wu Cheng'en wrote 西游记(Journey to the West) only because of a book 淮安府志, volume 19, 艺文志. 淮贤文目. That book showed that《射阳集》;《春秋列传序》;《西游记》 these three books were written by Wu Cheng'en. But 淮安府志 shows no details about 西游记. In Qing Dynasty, a book called 千顷堂书目 written by Huang Yuji recorded that 西游记 is kind of geography book, obviously not novel. And in 二郎搜山图歌 Wu Chengen called Er-Lang God as Qing-Yuan Father, that's different from 西游记

Wu's book 禹鼎志 said :“all the stuff in heart have gone, only these tens of things still left"

No matter this book was written before or after 西游记, it's quiet different from grandiose 西游记

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