Yǔ Jiānwú jí 庾肩吾集
Collected Works of Yu Jiangwu (Reconstructed) by 庾肩吾 (撰)
About the work
A reconstructed collection (jíyìběn 輯佚本) of the literary writings of Yǔ Jiānwú 庾肩吾 (487–551 CE), Liáng 梁 court poet, literary compiler, and calligraphic critic, father of the great poet Yǔ Xìn 庾信. Organized in two juǎn, the fragments are consistently cited at Shī jì 詩紀 juǎn 80 and the Wànhuā gǔ 萬花谷 anthology (後卷 25) explicitly attributes a poem as “庾肩吾詩.” The collection includes yuèfǔ 樂府 imitations, court occasional verse, yìnglìng 應令 (response-to-imperial-command) poems from the gatherings in the Xuányuán 玄圃 garden of Xiao Gang (Emperor Jianwen), and fragments of his Shū pǐn 書品 (Graded Evaluations of Calligraphers).
Tiyao
No tiyao found in source. This text is an extra-catalog reconstruction not included in the Sìkù quánshū 四庫全書.
Abstract
Yǔ Jiānwú 庾肩吾 (487–551 CE; zì Zǐshèn 子慎; CBDB: see 庾肩吾 for details) was a Liáng dynasty literary official from Nányáng 南陽 Xīn’yě 新野. He served as a literary official in the retinue of Xiao Gang (the future Jianwen Emperor 簡文帝), directing poetic gatherings in the Xuányuán garden and participating in the Palace Style (gōngtǐ 宮體) movement. He is the father of the famous poet Yǔ Xìn 庾信. See 庾肩吾 for full biography.
Yu Jiangwu is also known as the author of the Shū pǐn 書品 (Graded Evaluations of Calligraphers), a systematic ranking of 128 calligraphers from Hàn to Liáng in twelve grades modeled on Zhōng Róng’s 鍾嶸 Shīpǐn. He compiled the Yùtái xīnyǒng 玉臺新詠 anthology? (No — that was Xú Líng 徐陵; Yu Jiangwu is sometimes confused with Xu Ling in this regard, but it is Xu Ling who compiled the anthology.) Yu Jiangwu’s literary verse was included in Xu Ling’s Yùtái xīnyǒng. The Suíshū Jīngjízhì records a Yǔ Jiānwú jí in twenty juǎn. Zhāng Pǔ 張溥 included a Yǔ Zǐshèn jí 庾子慎集 in the Hàn Wèi Liùcháo bǎisān jiā jí 漢魏六朝百三家集.
Translations and research
- Knechtges, David R., and Taiping Chang, eds. Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature: A Reference Guide. Leiden: Brill, 2010–2014. Entry on Yu Jiangwu.
Links
- Wikipedia: Yu Jianwu