Huángshígōng sù shū 黃石公素書
The Plain Book of the Yellow-Stone Lord attributed to 黃石公 (Huángshígōng); commentary by 張商英 (Zhāng Shāngyīng, 1043–1121, 宋, 註)
About the work
A one-juan classical military biji attributed to Huángshígōng, with commentary by the Northern Sòng minister Zhāng Shāngyīng. Distinct from but parallel to the Huángshígōng sān lüè (KR3b0007); both are post-Qín pseudepigrapha drawing on the legendary Yellow-Stone-Lord identity, but the Sù shū is more proximate in form to a biji of aphoristic strategy than the systematic three-section structure of the Sān lüè. The work first appears in catalogs in the late Táng / Five Dynasties / early Sòng period; Zhāng Shāngyīng’s commentary established its Sòng-period reception. The frontmatter brackets to ca. 900–1100 for the work itself.
Abstract
The Sù shū is one of the more popular military-aphoristic works of the SòngYuánMíng tradition, with continuing late-imperial circulation in popularising form. The bibliographic record: not in Hàn yìwén zhì; emerges in late-Táng / Sòng catalogs; SKQS Zǐbù — Bīngjiā lèi.
Links
- Huángshígōng sān lüè (KR3b0007) — the companion pseudepigraphon.
- Kyoto Zinbun, Sìkù quánshū zǒngmù tíyào
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- Wikidata