Jingxuntang congshu 經訓堂叢書

Jingxuntang congshu 經訓堂叢書 "Collectanea of the Hall of Instructions in the Classics" is a series of collectanea (congshu 叢書) compiled by the Qing-period 清 (1644-1911) scholar Bi Yuan 畢沅 (1730-1797). It includes 21 texts with a total length of 168 juan.

Bi Yuan was very interested in the Confucian Classics, historiography and the subject of "philology" or "lexicography" (xiaoxue 小學), particularly geography and bronze and stone inscriptions. During his time as governor of Shaanxi and governor-general of Hu-Guang 湖廣 he had among his retainers quite a few famous scholars like Qian Daxin 錢大昕 (1728-1804), Shao Jinhan 邵晉涵 （1743-1796）, Zhang Xuecheng 章學誠 (1738-1801), Hong Liangji 洪亮吉 (1746-1809) or Huang Zhongze 黃仲則 （1749-1783）, some of whom participated in the compilation of Bi Wan's history book Xu zizhi tongjian 續資治通鑒.

The texts assembled in the Jingxuntang congshu were all chosen for their practical character either as geographic treatises like the Shanhaijing 山海經, Sanfu huangtu 三輔黃圖 or Chang'an zhi 長安志, or as classical text like Yanzi chunqiu 晏子春秋, Lüshi chunqiu 呂氏春秋 or Mozi 墨子. Some texts were written by Bi Yuan himself, like his commentaries on ancient dictionaries, Shiming shuzheng 釋名疏證 and Shuowen jiezi jiuyin 說文解字舊音, or the geographic treatises Wang Yin Jinshu didao ji 王隱晉書地道記, Jinshu dili zhi xin buzheng 晉書地理志新補正, treatises on stone inscriptions like Guanzhong jinshi ji 關中金石記 and Zhongzhou jinshi ji 中州金石記. Quite outstanding is Hui Dong's 惠棟 (1697-1758) philological interpretation of the "Book of Changes" Yijing 易經, the Yi hanxue 易漢學.

All texts were critically revised by Bi Yuan and Sun Xingyan 孫星衍 (1753-1818) and printed in high quality. The oldest print was produced by Bi Yuan himself, and was reproduced in 1887 by the Datong Press 大同書局 in Shanghai.