難經集註

Nànjīng jízhù 難經集註

Collected Commentaries on the Classic of Difficulties by 王九思 (Wáng Jiǔsī, Yuán medical compiler; see person note) and associates — compilers

(The “王九思” referenced here is the Yuán-period medical compiler — by office Hànlín 翰林, conventionally known as Wáng Hànlín 王翰林 — and is not the Míng poet Wáng Jiǔsī 王九思 1468–1551 of the Qián qī zǐ 前七子; see 王九思 for both. The catalog meta labels the work Míng because the principal surviving witnesses are Míng impressions; the underlying compilation is Yuán.)

About the work

The Nànjīng jízhù — also titled Wáng Hànlín jízhù Huángdì bāshíyī Nànjīng 王翰林集註黃帝八十一難經 — is the most important pre-Huá-Shòu compilation of Nànjīng commentaries. In five juan, it presents the eighty-one nán in turn, supplying for each the variant readings and glosses of the five major pre-Yuán commentators:

1. Lǚ Guǎng 呂廣 (Three Kingdoms / Wú, fl. mid-3rd c. CE) — the earliest commentator;
2. Yáng Xuáncāo 楊玄操 (Táng) — known via citation rather than direct transmission;
3. Dīng Dérún 丁德用 (Northern Sòng) — the Jǐyú 補注 commentator;
4. Yú Shù 虞庶 (Northern Sòng);
5. Yáng Kāngdí 楊康迪 (Sòng).

For many of these commentators, the Jízhù preserves the only continuous textual transmission: Lǚ Guǎng’s commentary survives nowhere else as a continuous text and is reconstructable only through this work. Wáng Hànlín’s editorial method is conservative: he supplies the main jīng 經 text of the Nànjīng, then prints each commentator’s gloss in turn beneath each nán, with sectional summaries.

Tiyao

KR3ea056_000.txt and the body files in this directory contain only org-mode placeholder headers — no body text is transcribed. The work is preserved here as a bibliographic stub. There is no Sìkù quánshū tíyào: the Sìkù editors chose 滑壽 Huá Shòu’s KR3ea060 Běnyì as the canonical Nànjīng witness, leaving Wáng’s anthology outside the Sìkù (see the Tíyào on KR3ea060 for the rationale).

Abstract

The composition date of the underlying Wáng compilation is unrecorded; the earliest reliable impression is the Wànlì gēngyín 萬曆庚寅 (1590) Cháofǔ jūjìngtáng 趙府居敬堂 woodblock edition, on which subsequent reprints depend. Internal evidence (the cited commentators are all pre-Yuán; the title-page identifies the editor by Yuán office) places the compilation in the late Yuán, conventionally c. 1300–1350. The Sòng yīshū jú 醫書局 collators (林億 Lín Yì et al., 1069) had already produced a Huángdì bāshíyī Nànjīng yīnshì 黃帝八十一難經音釋 with broadly similar content; whether Wáng Hànlín’s anthology incorporates the Sòng yīnshì directly or via independent collation is disputed.

Modern critical work depends on the 1590 Cháofǔ jūjìngtáng print, on a Chinese-replica Japanese woodblock edition of 1551 (Tenbun 20, Igaku-kan 醫學館 line) which preserves variants lost in the Cháofǔ tradition, and on the Sìbù cóngkān sānbiān 四部叢刊三編 photo-facsimile (Shànghǎi: Shāngwù, 1936). The work has been most thoroughly studied by Liào Yùqún 廖育群 (Chónggòu Nànjīng 重構難經, 2002), who uses it as the principal SòngYuán quotation base for reconstructing the Lǚ Guǎng and Yáng Xuáncāo commentaries.

Translations and research

• Paul U. Unschuld, Medicine in China: Nan-ching, the Classic of Difficult Issues (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986) — incorporates the Wáng Hànlín Jízhù readings throughout.
• Liào Yùqún 廖育群, Chónggòu Nànjīng 重構難經 (Tāiběi: Academia Sinica, 2002) — uses the Jízhù as the foundation for the most ambitious modern reconstruction of the Nànjīng commentarial tradition.
• Sìbù cóngkān sānbiān 四部叢刊三編 (Shānghǎi: Shāngwù yìnshūguǎn, 1936), vol. 16 — the most accessible critical photo-facsimile.

Other points of interest

The Jízhù is the only Chinese channel of transmission for Lǚ Guǎng’s commentary, the earliest known commentary on the Nànjīng (c. 250 CE). Without Wáng Hànlín, the only access to Lǚ’s text would be the brief YángXuáncāo citations preserved in Japanese Heian-period manuscripts of Tanba no Yasuyori’s Ishinpō 醫心方 (984). The two transmission channels — Chinese (Wáng → Cháofǔ → Sìbù cóngkān) and Japanese (Yáng Xuáncāo → Ishinpō → Tamba) — were systematically collated only in the late nineteenth century by 丹波元胤 (Tamba no Motoin) in the Nànjīng shūzhèng (KR3ea062).

Links

• Wikidata Q105754773 (Yáng Xuáncāo Nànjīng commentary tradition).
• CTEXT 《難經集註》