Ěryǎ Shī-shì yīn 爾雅施氏音
Master Shī’s Phonological Commentary on the Ěryǎ by 施乾 (撰)
About the work
A modern reconstruction of 施乾 Shī Qián’s lost Ěryǎ yīn 爾雅音, one of the three Liáng-period Ěryǎ phonological apparatuses preserved chiefly through Lù Démíng’s 陸德明 Jīngdiǎn shìwén 經典釋文. The original was two juàn per the Suí shū jīngjí zhì 隋書‧經籍志 (xiǎoxué) and lost by the Sòng. The CHANT reconstruction (CH2f1205) collates the surviving citations exclusively from Lù Démíng.
Abstract
The Shī-shì yīn belongs to the Liáng triplet — Gù Yěwáng KR1j0094, Shī Qián KR1j0095, Xiè Qiáo KR1j0096 — that Lù Démíng routinely cites together (Gù, Shī, Xiè 顧、施、謝) when reporting Ěryǎ readings, sometimes also alongside the earlier Wèi-period Sūn-shì yīn KR1j0092 of 孫炎 Sūn Yán.
The surviving fragments are very short. Representative entries from 〈Shìgǔ 釋詁〉 first chapter: bǎn 昄 read pú-mǎn fǎn 蒲滿反 (cited from Lù Démíng’s Ěryǎ shìwén); other readings of jí 戢, sōu 蒐, etc., in the same fǎn-qiè format. There is no surviving evidence that Shī Qián supplied any xùngǔ (paraphrastic) gloss alongside the phonological readings, distinguishing his apparatus from Sūn Yán’s; the Shī-shì work appears to have been a pure yīn (sound-only) reading.
The dating bracket (500–557) reflects the Liáng-dynasty span; no internal dating evidence preserved in the fragments narrows this further. The triple-clustering Gù-Shī-Xiè, together with the consistent Liáng dynasty attribution in the bibliographic catalogs, places the work in the mid-sixth century southern xiǎoxué milieu.
Translations and research
No substantial dedicated Western-language secondary literature located.
- Rén Dàchūn 任大椿, Xiǎoxué gōuchén 小學鉤沈 — Qīng reconstruction on which CHANT depends.
- Mǎ Guóhàn 馬國翰, Yùhánshānfáng jíyìshū 玉函山房輯佚書.
Links
- Suí shū jīngjí zhì — xiǎoxué: https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=en&res=613103
- Jīngdiǎn shìwén — Ěryǎ yīnyì: https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=en&res=608648