Qínzǐ 秦子
Master Qín by 秦菁 (Qín Jīng, fl. Jìn, dates obscure)
About the work
A lost Jìn 晉 zǐbù treatise by Qín Jīng 秦菁. Reconstructed from quotations in 《丹鉛總錄》 (Yáng Shèn’s 楊慎 Míng-era miscellany), 《北堂書鈔》, 《太平御覽》, 《意林》, 《藝文類聚》 and Lǐ Shàn’s Wén xuǎn commentary on Bào Zhào’s 鮑照 Báitóu yín 白頭吟. Not in the Sìkù quánshū; sourced from CHANT (CH2a1475).
Abstract
Qín Jīng is a Jìn-period figure recorded in the early bibliographic tradition only as the author of this zǐ-house treatise. The Suí shū jīngjí zhì 隋書經籍志 lists his Qínzǐ in 3 juàn. The surviving citations are short, mostly aphoristic — conventional moral observations on rulership, friendship, the dangers of slander, and the cultivation of office. A notable feature: Yáng Shèn’s 《丹鉛總錄》 preserves the longest surviving block, indicating that the Qínzǐ circulated in the Míng dynasty in some form before disappearing entirely. The date-bracket here is the Jìn period (265–420); the received recension is a 19th-century jíyì.
Translations and research
No substantial secondary literature located. Standard fragment-compilation: 嚴可均 Quán Jìn wén 全晉文 j. 142.
Links
- Suí shū jīngjí zhì 隋書經籍志.
- Dānqiān zǒnglù 丹鉛總錄 (Yáng Shèn, Míng).