Lǐjì Fàn-shì yīn 禮記范氏音
Master Fàn’s Phonological Commentary on the Lǐjì
by 范宣 (撰)
About the work
A single-juàn reconstruction of 范宣 Fàn Xuān’s (Eastern-Jìn, fl. mid-fourth century) lost Lǐjì Fàn-shì yīn 禮記范氏音 — a phonological commentary on the Lǐjì (KR1d0049) in the same Eastern-Jìn yīn-yì tradition as the parallel 徐邈 KR1d0128 Lǐjì Xú-shì yīn and 劉昌宗 KR1d0129 Lǐjì Liú-shì yīn. The CHANT reconstruction (CH2e1102) is drawn from Lù Démíng 陸德明’s Jīngdiǎn shìwén 經典釋文 citations.
Abstract
The text follows the canonical 49-piān organisational structure of the Lǐjì, with each piān opening with phonological glosses on difficult readings.
The opening preserved fragments cover:
(i) <Qǔlǐ xià> 曲禮下 — gloss zhǔ pèi yǐ yú qǐ fǎn 主佩倚於綺反 (the host’s pendant — yī, glossed yú qǐ fǎn in fǎn-qiè).
(ii) <Yuèlìng> 月令 — phonological glosses on calendrical and ritual-cycle vocabulary.
The text continues through the canonical Lǐjì piān-sequence with characteristic Fàn-school fǎn-qiè readings, often paired with citations from Xú Miǎo and Liú Chāngzōng to mark Fàn Xuān’s particular preferred reading.
Fàn Xuān is also the author of KR1d0102 Lǐlùn dáwèn — his Eastern-Jìn private-school ritual question-and-answer compilation. The Lǐjì Fàn-shì yīn derives from the same Yùzhāng 豫章 private-academy teaching context.
The dating bracket (330–410) is approximate, covering Fàn Xuān’s documented mid-fourth-century teaching activity. He died sometime after 402 (cf. KR1d0102 note).
Translations and research
No substantial Western-language secondary literature located. See:
- 王力 Wáng Lì, Zhōngguó yǔyán xué shǐ, on Eastern-Jìn phonological scholarship.
Other points of interest
The Lǐjì Fàn-shì yīn is the smallest of the four reconstructed Eastern-Jìn / Northern-Wèi Lǐjì yīn commentaries in this corpus, paired with the more substantial 徐邈 KR1d0128 Lǐjì Xú-shì yīn and 劉昌宗 KR1d0129 Lǐjì Liú-shì yīn. The three works together constitute the principal pre-Lù-Démíng phonological apparatus to the Lǐjì.
Links
- Chinese Text Project — Jīngdiǎn shìwén: https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=en&res=608648