Zhāng Zhèngjiàn Jí 張正見集
Collected Works of Zhang Zhengxian by 張正見 (撰)
About the work
The Zhāng Zhèngjiàn Jí 張正見集 is a jíyìběn 輯佚本 (reconstructed anthology) compiled by Zhāng Pǔ 張溥 (1602–1641) for his Hànwèi liùcháo bǎisānjiā jí 漢魏六朝百三家集. The text is an extra-catalog reconstruction not included in the Sìkù quánshū 四庫全書. The source file contains 3724 lines of text; 卷三 is explicitly marked at line 3352, indicating a multi-volume organization with at least three divisions. The earlier material (卷一 and 卷二) begins directly with a lèifǔ 樂府 section without internal divisional headers.
The collection gathers poetry attributed to Zhāng Zhèngjiàn 張正見 (ca. 527–575 CE) from encyclopedic and anthological sources. The principal sources are Shījì 詩紀 (fascicle 102), the Chūxué jì 初學記, the Wényuàn yīnghuá 文苑英華, and the Yuèfǔ shījí 樂府詩集. Representative titles include 〈釣竿篇〉, 〈度關山〉, 〈採桑〉, 〈豔歌行〉, 〈從軍行〉, 〈三婦豔詩〉, 〈白頭吟〉, and 〈輕薄篇〉 — yuefu titles drawn from the standard repertory of Six Dynasties palace-style imitative verse. 卷三 opens with its own lèifǔ 樂府 section, featuring 〈朱鷺〉, 〈戰城南〉, 〈芳樹〉, 〈有所思〉, and other classical yuèfǔ topics.
Tiyao
No tiyao found in source. This text is an extra-catalog reconstruction not included in the Sìkù quánshū 四庫全書.
Abstract
Zhāng Zhèngjiàn 張正見 (ca. 527–575 CE), styled Lóngzhèng 龍政, was a Chén 陳 dynasty poet from Qīnghé Wùchéng 清河武城 (modern Shāndōng). His dates are given as 527–575 in the Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature (Denecke et al. 2017, p. 435), where he is listed alongside Jiāng Zǒng 江總 KR4b0070, Xú Líng 徐陵, and others as a poet who cultivated the “Mount Long” (Lǒng shān 隴山) yuèfǔ theme popular among Liáng and Chén court poets. His biography appears in Chénshū 陳書 34 (in the 辭令傳 collective biography of literary officials), and he served as an erudite (bóshì 博士) and court official under the Chén.
Zhāng Zhèngjiàn excelled at palace-style (gōngtǐ 宮體) verse and the imitative yuèfǔ form. His original collection is mentioned in Suíshū·Jīngjí zhì 隋書·經籍志 but did not survive intact. Zhāng Pǔ’s reconstruction draws on the standard Six Dynasties anthologies. The Shījì fascicle 102 is the primary source; secondary sources include the Wényuàn yīnghuá and the Yuèfǔ shījí. The jíyìběn preserves enough verse to show that Zhāng Zhèngjiàn was an accomplished practitioner of the regulated court style, though he remains a minor figure compared with his contemporaries Jiāng Zǒng and Xú Líng.
Translations and research
- Denecke, Wiebke, Wai-yee Li, and Xiaofei Tian, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature (1000 BCE–900 CE). Oxford University Press, 2017. Reference at p. 435.
- No substantial dedicated monograph or translation of the Zhāng Zhèngjiàn corpus located.