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Text ID
KR3ed016
Date
1170–1170
Dynasty
宋

Hóngshì Jíyàn Fāng 洪氏集驗方

Tested Recipes of Mr Hóng by 洪遵 (Hóng Zūn, 1120–1174, zì Jǐngyán 景嚴, 南宋) — Southern-Sòng Hànlínxuéshì 翰林學士 and senior court official, native of Póyáng 鄱陽 (Jiāngxī)

About the work

The Hóngshì jíyàn fāng in 5 juǎn is the Southern-Sòng formulary compiled by Hóng Zūn 洪遵 at Gūshú 姑孰 (modern Dāngtú 當塗, Ānhuī), printed in qiándào 6 (1170). Hóng’s brief postface explains the project: he gathered together recipes he had personally used to effect, plus a few he had not had occasion to use but had received from reliable transmitters, “and cut them at Gūshú for sharing with the multitude” (刻之姑孰，與眾共之).

The work is preserved in a 宋版 Sòng-print copy famously associated with the BǎiSòngyīchàn 百宋一廛 collection of Huáng Pīliè 黃丕烈 (1763–1825), whose 1804 (甲子) postface narrates the acquisition and identifies the work with the same Gūshú workshop and qiándào-era period as the Shānghán yàozhǐ 傷寒要旨 in his collection (both bear the same engravers’ marks: 黃憲, 毛用). A second 1805 (乙丑) postface by Gù Guǎngqí 顧廣圻 disambiguates the work from the Tàiyī jíyè 太醫集業 mentioned in Lù Qíqīng 陸其清’s Jiāqùtáng shūmù 佳趣堂書目: the Tàiyī jíyè, Gù argues, is in fact a butchered partial copy of Chén Yán 陳言’s Sānyīn jíyī bìngzhèng fānglùn 三因極一病證方論 (KR3ec022 / KR3eb008) rather than a separate work.

Prefaces

The hxwd transmission preserves three paratexts:

  1. 後記 by Hóng Zūn himself, dated 乾道庚寅十二月十日 (= January 1171, qiándào 6). A 47-character minimal postface, followed by a 4-couplet qíngshēng 情聲 verse by an anonymous later admirer praising Hóng for putting “saving the people” above his rank (his brother Hóng Mài 洪邁 was Chancellor; Hóng Zūn himself was Hànlín shìcóng 翰林侍從).
  2. 黃丕烈 識 (1804) — Huáng Pīliè’s postface narrating the recovery of the Sòng print from the Jìcāng 季氏 collection via the Yangzhou book-friend Táo Lǎngxuān 陶琅軒 in 1804.
  3. 顧廣圻 書 (1805) — Gù Guǎngqí’s appended note disambiguating the work from a misattributed Tàiyī jíyè citation.

Abstract

Hóng Zūn 洪遵 (1120–1174, CBDB 7344), zì Jǐngyán 景嚴, hào Xiǎcǎo 小草, was a leading Southern-Sòng official and the third of the four Hóng brothers (洪适, 洪遵, 洪邁, 洪迈; 洪遵 was the second). He was a xiàoyán 校延 qūběn 取本 (“preserved name” pass) graduate, advanced rapidly through Hanlin Academy and central-court appointments, and held senior posts including Hànlínxuéshì 翰林學士, Hóngwénguǎn xuéshì 弘文館學士, Tóngzhī shūmìyuàn shì 同知樞密院事, and others. He is principally known to art historians as the author of the Quánzhì 泉志 (catalogue of ancient coins, the earliest systematic Chinese numismatic monograph). His medical work is a small-scale personal formulary — only 165 recipes across the 5 juǎn — but the work’s high pharmacological quality, combined with Hóng’s senior-official status and the careful Sòng print transmission, made it an important secondary-tier source for SòngYuán medical compilation.

The catalog meta entry “洪遵 / 宋” stands. CBDB lifedates 1120–1174 are consistent with his composition of the work at Gūshú around 1170. Note that there is a separate KR3ed113 (Jíyàn fāng 集驗方) listed in the catalog meta also under 洪遵 / 宋 — the distinction between Jíyàn fāng (a longer compilation) and Hóngshì jíyàn fāng (the 5-juǎn Gūshú edition) is preserved in the catalog.

The work’s modern significance is principally textual-philological (the 宋版 print preserves one of the cleanest Sòng-era recipe text witnesses) and historiographic (it documents the Sòng scholar-official’s personal-philanthropic engagement with medicine).

Translations and research

  • Hé Shíxī 何時希 (coll.). 1986. Hóng-shì jíyàn fāng 洪氏集驗方 (punctuated edition). Shanghai zhōngyī xuéyuàn.
  • Wáng Zhǐzhōng 王致中. 2007. Sòng-rén bǐjì zhōng de yīxué shǐliào yánjiū 宋人筆記中的醫學史料研究. — discusses Hóng Zūn’s medical interest.
  • Hartwell, Robert M. 1971. “Financial Expertise…” — for Hóng Zūn’s official career.
  • Wilkinson, Chinese History: A New Manual §41.3.2.

Other points of interest

The Huáng Pīliè / Gù Guǎngqí postfaces are themselves classic late-Qīng evidential scholarship: identification of a print by engravers’ names (黃憲, 毛用) and workshop location (姑孰), correction of catalog misattribution (the Tàiyī jíyè / Sānyīn confusion), and the careful situating of a Sòng print within a known regional workshop output — the kind of kǎojù 考據 textual-critical work that made the BǎiSòngyīchàn collection so important to Chinese book history.

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