纂圖互註禮記

Zuǎntú hùzhù Lǐjì 纂圖互註禮記

The Lǐjì with Compiled Diagrams and Cross-Annotations

by 鄭玄 (注), 陸德明 (音義)

About the work

A late-Sòng commercial bookshop edition of the Lǐjì in twenty juàn, integrating Zhèng Xuán’s annotation, Lù Démíng’s yīnyì, prefatory diagrams (zuǎn tú 纂圖), and cross-citations to parallel passages elsewhere in the Sānlǐ and the classics (hù zhù 互註). The Sìbù cóngkān reproduction (SB11n006) is from the Sòng Jiànyáng 建陽 (Mǐnběi 閩北 commercial publishing centre) imprint of the Liúshì 劉氏 Sānguìtáng 三桂堂 family — one of the Zuǎntú hùzhù “Five Classics” series of Jiànyáng commercial editions whose other surviving members include the Zuǎntú hùzhù MáoShī and Zuǎntú hùzhù Zhōulǐ. The Kanripo recension corresponds to the volumes 0020–0024 of the SBCK first series. The work has no separate authorial preface or tíyào: it is essentially a typeset re-presentation of the standard HànTáng commentary line in a layout designed for examination preparation.

Abstract

The Zuǎntú hùzhù 纂圖互註 (literally “compiled-diagrams + mutually-annotated”) format was a distinctive late-Sòng / early-Yuán commercial publishing innovation of the Jiànyáng book-trade — particularly the Liú 劉, Yú 余, and Wú 吳 family imprints — that combined three apparatuses on the page: (i) the canonical text with the standard early Hàn–Táng commentary, (ii) a corpus of zuǎn tú (compiled diagrams) typically placed at the head of each major section showing ritual layouts, vessel forms, and ceremonial schemata, and (iii) hù zhù (cross-annotations) linking each passage to related passages in other classics. The format was an examination-preparation aid for the SòngYuán jìnshì curriculum, and the surviving Zuǎntú hùzhù editions of the Five Classics — including the present Lǐjì, the MáoShī, the Zhōulǐ, the Yílǐ, and the Chūnqiū — are an important witness to the actual scholarly use of the classics in the SòngYuán transition.

The text-critical value of the recension lies in its preservation of an early printed witness to the standard Zhèng Xuán annotation, with its Lù Démíng yīnyì readings, prior to the editorial standardisation of the YuánMíng official examination editions (which after the Yányòu reform increasingly substituted Chén Hào’s KR1d0059 Lǐjì jíshuō for the Zhèng annotation and ultimately abandoned Zhèng altogether under the Yǒnglè Lǐjì dàquán KR1d0060). Surviving SòngYuán imprints of the Zuǎntú hùzhù series are catalogued by Wáng Zhòngmín 王重民 in Zhōngguó shànběn shū tíyào 中國善本書提要 and by SòngYuán book-trade scholars including Lúcille Chia (Printing for Profit, Harvard, 2002), who identifies the format as a key product of the Jiànyáng commercial trade at the SòngYuán transition.

The dating bracket 1200–1280 marks the active commercial period of the Jiànyáng Zuǎntú hùzhù series: the format is securely datable to the late Southern Sòng but cannot be tied to a precise year. Some surviving copies bear early-Yuán imprints suggesting the format continued in the Mǐnběi trade across the dynastic transition.

Translations and research

• Lúcille Chia, Printing for Profit: The Commercial Publishers of Jianyang, Fujian (11th–17th Centuries) (Harvard-Yenching, 2002) — definitive English study of the Jiànyáng commercial book trade, identifies the Zuǎntú hùzhù series as a major product line.
• Wáng Zhòngmín 王重民, Zhōngguó shànběn shū tíyào 中國善本書提要 (Shànghǎi gǔjí, 1983) — bibliographic descriptions of surviving Sòng-Yuán Zuǎntú hùzhù editions.
• Pèng Lín 彭林, Sānlǐ yánjiū rùmén 三禮研究入門 (Fùdàn dàxué chūbǎnshè, 2012) — situates the Zuǎntú hùzhù Lǐjì in the broader Sòng-Yuán Lǐjì commentarial publishing tradition.

Other points of interest

The zuǎn tú (compiled diagrams) of this edition are a major early witness to the visual representation of ritual implements and schemata that ultimately feed into Niè Chóngyì’s KR1d0078 Sānlǐ tú jízhù tradition and the subsequent MíngQīng Sānlǐ tú KR1d0079 line. The diagrams are commercial in character (drawn for legibility rather than for textual-critical fidelity) and should be used with caution; the standard scholarly Sānlǐ tú reference remains Niè Chóngyì.

Links

• Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Rites
• Chinaknowledge: http://www.chinaknowledge.de/Literature/Classics/liji.html