Wǔbǎijiā zhù Chānglí wénjí 五百家注昌黎文集
Cháng-lí Collection with the Annotations of Five Hundred Commentators by 韓愈 (撰), 魏仲擧 (編)
About the work
Wǔbǎijiā zhù Chānglí wénjí 五百家注昌黎文集 in 40 juǎn is the anthology of the Sòng commentary tradition for Hán Yù 韓愈, compiled and printed by Wèi Zhòngjǔ 魏仲擧 in Shàodìng / Duānpíng period (ca. 1228–1233) at Jiànān 建安 (Fújiàn). The “wǔbǎijiā” of the title is the conventional Sòng jízhù exaggeration of the qiānjiā zhù 千家註 type — the actual list of cited annotators in the front matter runs to about 150 — but reflects a real editorial program of consolidating over a century of Sòng HánYù scholarship into a single comprehensive text. The base critical apparatus draws on Fāng Sōngqīng 方崧卿’s Jǔzhèng (= KR4c0042) and Zhū Xī’s 朱熹 Kǎoyì (= KR4c0043); the running commentary draws on dozens of Sòng commentators (Wáng Ānshí, Sòng Qí, Huáng Tíngjiān, Sūn Yáng 孫陽, Hóng Xīngzǔ 洪興祖, Wèi Tài 魏泰, Cài Tāo 蔡絛, etc.).
The WYG file opens with two substantial Yùzhì poems by Qiánlóng — Yùzhì tí Sòngbǎn Hán Chánglí wénjí 御製題宋版韓昌黎文集 (a panegyric on the recovered Sòng print) and Yùzhì dú Hán Yù Duì Yǔ wèn 御製讀韓愈對禹問 (an extended philosophical engagement with Hán’s Duì Yǔ wèn 對禹問 essay).
Tiyao
No tíyào in source. The KR4c0045 file is the SBCK base — actually here labeled WYG — which preserves the two Qiánlóng yùzhì poems but no Sìkù tíyào. The Sìkù WYG 40-juǎn tíyào (V1074.1) survives in the Zinbun digital Sìkù tíyào.
Abstract
The Wǔbǎijiā anthology represents the consolidation of the Sòng qiānjiā zhù tradition for Hán Yù — a parallel to the Jí qiānjiā zhù Dù gōngbù shī jí (= KR4c0018) for Dù Fǔ. The 40-juǎn arrangement preserves the standard Lǐ Hàn 李漢 李漢 (Tang-period) HánYù table of contents; the textual apparatus is Fāng Sōngqīng’s Jǔzhèng refined by Zhū Xī’s Kǎoyì; and the commentary is gathered from over a century of named Sòng readers. The YuánMíng dominance of this edition (alongside Wáng Bódà’s 王伯大 Biéběn = KR4c0044) made it a standard kējǔ preparation text.
Wèi Zhòngjǔ — a Jiànān (modern Jiànōu, Fújiàn) commercial publisher — also produced the parallel Wǔbǎijiā zhù Liǔ xiānshēng jí KR4c0050 for Liǔ Zōngyuán 柳宗元, using the same editorial program. The two collections together represent the Sòng jízhù enterprise’s consummation: comprehensive annotated editions of the two Tang gǔwén foundational figures, prepared in the same workshop in the Jiànān commercial-printing tradition.
The Qiánlóng yùzhì poems on this edition — particularly the engagement with Hán Yù’s Duì Yǔ wèn (a philosophical essay on whether yǔ wèi xián “to give to the worthy” or yǔ wèi zǐ “to give to one’s son” is the proper transmission principle, anchoring on Hán’s reading of Mèngzǐ) — are unusually substantive expressions of Qiánlóng engagement with Tang philosophical prose, comparing the Mèngzǐ / Hán Yù / Mencian-rule tradition with the Tài shì 泰誓 tiān shì zì wǒ mín shì “heaven sees as the people see” theory of mandate.
Translations and research
- See KR4c0042, KR4c0043, KR4c0044, KR4c0046, KR4c0047 for parallel and downstream Hán Yù editions.
- See KR4c0050 for Wèi Zhòng-jǔ’s matching Liǔ Zōng-yuán anthology.
- Charles Hartman. 1986. Han Yu and the T’ang Search for Unity. Princeton UP.
Other points of interest
The Wǔbǎijiā designation — like the Qiānjiā zhù of the Dù Fǔ tradition — is editorial advertising rather than a literal claim; the actual xìngshì (annotator-list) holds about 150 named figures. The bookseller-scholar Wèi Zhòngjǔ’s Jiànān operation was one of the principal Sòng-period commercial-print establishments for Tang biéjí; his print runs of Hán Yù and Liǔ Zōngyuán remained dominant in the late-Sòng and Yuán kējǔ market.
Links
- See KR4c0050 for the matching Liǔ Zōngyuán Wǔbǎijiā edition.
- Han Yu (Wikipedia)