Hán jí jǔzhèng 韓集舉正
Examined and Corrected Hán Yù Collection by 方崧卿 (撰)
About the work
Hán jí jǔzhèng 韓集舉正 in 10 juǎn (with appended Wàijí jǔzhèng 外集舉正 in 1 juǎn) is the major Sòng-period text-critical edition of Hán Yù 韓愈’s collected works, by Fāng Sōngqīng 方崧卿 (1135–1194; zì Jìshēn 季申), a Pǔtián 莆田 (Fújiàn) scholar-official. Fāng’s work — completed in Chúnxī 16 (jǐyǒu = 1189) and self-prefaced in that year — is the foundational Sòng jiàokān 校勘 (collation) study of the Hán Yù corpus, comparing forty-some pre-Sòng and Sòng witnesses for variant readings; it directly underpins Zhū Xī’s 朱熹 subsequent Hán wén kǎoyì 韓文考異 (KR4c0043), which became the standard reference and effectively eclipsed Fāng’s original work — the Sìkù tíyào notes that Fāng’s text was “shadowed by [Zhū Xī’s] great fame” and “almost vanished” by the YuánMíng.
Tiyao
Hán jí jǔzhèng in 10 juǎn, with Wàijí jǔzhèng in 1 juǎn — by Fāng Sōngqīng of the Sòng. Sōngqīng was a Pǔtián man, who in Xiàozōng’s reign was Tāizhōu jūnshì 台州軍事. The book has Fāng’s self-colophon dated Chúnxī jǐyǒu (1189), saying he had a Gǔ Chānglí xiānshēng jí 古昌黎先生集 in 40 juǎn, wàijí 1 juǎn, fùlù 5 juǎn, zēngkǎo niánpǔ 1 juǎn; he ordered the variant readings and produced jǔzhèng in 10 juǎn. Chén Zhènsūn’s Shūlù jiětí records the same; he additionally lists wàichāo 外抄 in 8 juǎn — annotated as: niánpǔ by Hóng Xīngzǔ 洪興祖, zēngkǎo by Pǔtián Fāng Sōngqīng, who also wrote the jǔzhèng and printed at Nánān 南安 [Fújiàn]; the wàijí uses the Jiāyòu 嘉祐 (1056) Liú Yù 劉煜 25-piece recovery plus stone-rubbing-derived liánjù poems and prose found in other works; and Gě Jiào 葛嶠’s print of the Liǔ Zōngyuán 柳宗元 collection [the matching recension of KR4c0048] used the Dàyú chéng 大庾丞 Hán Yù 韓郁 [different person from the poet]‘s zhù běn (commented edition) called wàijí; together these are the wàichāo 8 juǎn. So the wàichāo is not Fāng’s own work — it was Gě Jiào’s print attaching parallel material to the HánLiǔ pair for cross-reference, hence Fāng’s colophon does not mention it.
Per the colophon and Chén’s listing, Fāng’s book originally circulated together with the wén jí, wài jí, fùlù, and niánpǔ. The present text has only the jǔzhèng — the rest is lost. At the end of the 10 juǎn there is also a 1-juǎn Wàijí jǔzhèng, which the colophon and Chén do not mention; checking against the original print, this material may simply have been included in the 10 juǎn without separate numbering, only later separated. From Zhū Xī’s Hán wén kǎoyì, drawing on Fāng’s jǔzhèng, the latter was overshadowed by Zhū’s fame and the Sòng original almost vanished by the YuánMíng. The present copy has fine paper and ink, internal taboo-character avoidance for kāng 完 (Qīnzōng’s name) but no avoidance of dūn 敦 (Guāngzōng’s name) — the text is therefore the Chúnxī original print, surviving 500-some years.
[Continued tíyào: discussion of Yán Ruòjǔ’s 閻若璩 Qiánqiū zhájì 潛丘劄記 errors on Fāng’s text…]
Abstract
Fāng Sōngqīng’s Hán jí jǔzhèng is the Sòng jiàokān foundation of the modern critical Hán Yù corpus: every later SòngYuánMíngQīng commentary edition (Zhū Xī’s Kǎoyì, Wáng Bódà 王伯大’s 王伯大 Bié běn Hán wén kǎoyì KR4c0044, Wèi Zhòngjǔ 魏仲擧 魏仲擧’s Wǔbǎijiā zhù Chánglí wén jí KR4c0045, Liào Yíngzhōng 廖瑩中 廖瑩中’s Dōngyǎtáng Chánglí jí zhù KR4c0046, Chén Jǐngyún 陳景雲’s Hán jí diǎnkān KR4c0047) is built on or in dialogue with Fāng’s collation. Its principal scholarly contribution was to establish the Sòng critical apparatus for the HánYù corpus through systematic comparison of pre-Sòng and Sòng witnesses including the Gǔ Chánglí xiānshēng jí 40 juǎn, the Hóng Xīngzǔ 洪興祖 niánpǔ, and the Lǐ Hàn 李漢 李漢 original Tang-period 40-juǎn table.
Fāng Sōngqīng (1135–1194 per CBDB cbdbId 7110) was a Xīnghuà jūn 興化軍 Pǔtián 莆田 (modern Pǔtián in Fújiàn) native; jìnshì of Lóngxìng 1 (1163). Successively Jìshǐlǐ and Tāizhōu jūnshì; reasonably distinguished local-government career.
Translations and research
- See KR4c0043 (Zhū Xī Kǎo-yì), KR4c0044 (Wáng Bó-dà Bié běn), KR4c0045, KR4c0046, KR4c0047 for parallel and downstream Hán Yù editions.
- Charles Hartman. 1986. Han Yu and the T’ang Search for Unity. Princeton UP. The standard English-language scholarly study; substantial discussion of the Sòng commentary tradition.
- Gao Buying 高步瀛, ed. 1957. Táng Sòng wén jǔ-yào 唐宋文舉要. Important context for the Sòng critical reception.
Other points of interest
The Sìkù tíyào’s identification of the surviving WYG copy as the original Chúnxī (1189) Sòng print — through internal taboo-character analysis (avoiding kāng but not dūn, hence between Qīnzōng and Guāngzōng’s reigns) — is a sharp piece of late-imperial bibliography, of the kind that the Sìkù compilers became famous for in the Wǔyīngdiàn library project.