Dōngyǎtáng Chānglí jí zhù 東雅堂昌黎集註
Cháng-lí Collection with Commentary, [Printed by] the Dōng-yǎ-táng by 韓愈 (撰), 李漢 (編), 廖瑩中 (集註)
About the work
Dōngyǎtáng Hán Chánglí jí zhù 東雅堂韓昌黎集註 in 40 juǎn is the late-Sòng annotated Hán Yù 韓愈 edition compiled by Liào Yíngzhōng 廖瑩中 (d. 1275) — guǎnkè (literary retainer) of the notorious Sòng zǎixiàng Jiǎ Sìdào 賈似道 (1213–1275) — at his Shìcǎitáng 世綵堂 print works. The transmitted text is the Míng-period Dōngyǎtáng 東雅堂 reprint by Xú Shítài 徐時泰 (a Wúzhōu 吳中 collector), made in Wànlì (ca. 1573–1620) from the original Liào print but with Liào’s name systematically deleted from the front matter — a deliberate elision (per the Sìkù tíyào and Chén Jǐngyún 陳景雲’s Hán jí diǎnkān KR4c0047) because Xú regarded Liào’s association with Jiǎ Sìdào as morally compromising.
Tiyao
Dōngyǎtáng Hán Chánglí jí zhù in 40 juǎn — no compiler name given. Only at the end of each juǎn is the small seal DōngWú Xúshì kèzǐ jiāshú 東吳徐氏刻梓家塾. Per Chén Jǐngyún’s Hán jí diǎnkān shūhòu 韓集點勘書後: “Recently the Wúzhōng Xú clan’s Dōngyǎtáng printed a Hán collection using the late-Sòng Liào Yíngzhōng Shìcǎitáng 世綵堂 edition; the notes draw principally on Wèi Zhòngjǔ’s 魏仲擧 Jiànān Wǔbǎijiā zhù (= KR4c0045), with about 30% from other sources, and Liào dispersed Zhūzǐ’s standalone Kǎoyì into the various passages — all of this is by Liào.” Liào Yíngzhōng was a guǎnkè of Jiǎ Sìdào — see the Sìdào zhuàn of Sòngshǐ. The Xú clan deliberately omitted Liào’s name and date because they despised him as a person.
Examining this text, the front carries 9 fánlì (editorial principles); one item on imperial taboo characters is conclusively Sòng-period — confirming Chén’s identification of Liào’s hand.
[Sìkù tíyào continues with comparison to Wèi Zhòngjǔ’s edition.]
Abstract
The Dōngyǎtáng edition is one of the principal late-Sòng annotated Hán Yù editions, parallel to and partially derivative from Wèi Zhòngjǔ’s Wǔbǎijiā zhù (= KR4c0045); Liào’s editorial innovation was to disperse Zhū Xī’s 朱熹 standalone Kǎoyì notes (originally KR4c0043) directly into the body text below the relevant lines — the same dispersal Wáng Bódà 王伯大 had performed (= KR4c0044), but using Wèi Zhòngjǔ’s Wǔbǎijiā base text rather than the Lǐ Hàn straight 40-juǎn template.
The Xú Shítài Míng reprint preserves the Sòng print’s text and apparatus while removing Liào’s name. The Sìkù compilers, following Chén Jǐngyún’s identification, restored Liào’s authorship in the tíyào but printed the text from the Xú Míng reprint.
Liào Yíngzhōng (d. 1275; CBDB has cbdbId 49995 with no fixed dates; standard reference works place death in 1275 with Jiǎ Sìdào’s fall) was a Shàowǔ jūn 邵武軍 Shùnchāng 順昌 native (Fújiàn). He served as Jiǎ Sìdào’s literary retainer for many years; his Shìcǎitáng (literally “Hall of the World’s Brocade”) was one of the finest Sòng private kèshū operations, producing high-quality reprints of Tang biéjí. He died with Jiǎ Sìdào in the catastrophic year 1275 — Jiǎ was assassinated en route to exile at Wúzhōu 婺州 after his disastrous defeat at Dīngjiāzhōu 丁家洲, and Liào is variously reported as having been killed at the same moment or as having committed suicide afterward.
For the standard pre-modern Hán Yù commentary tradition this edition is one of the principal Sòng nodes; together with Wáng Bódà’s Biéběn (= KR4c0044) and Wèi Zhòngjǔ’s Wǔbǎijiā (= KR4c0045) it forms the SòngYuán reading-edition triad.
Translations and research
- See KR4c0042, KR4c0043, KR4c0044, KR4c0045, KR4c0047 for parallel Hán Yù editions.
- Charles Hartman. 1986. Han Yu and the T’ang Search for Unity. Princeton UP.
Other points of interest
The Sìkù tíyào’s reconstruction of the editorial history — Chén Jǐngyún’s identification of Liào’s hand, Xú Shítài’s deliberate omission of Liào’s name on moral grounds, the Sìkù restoration of authorship — is itself a small monument to the late-imperial concern with editorial provenance and moral evaluation of SòngYuán bookmaking. The fate of Liào Yíngzhōng — the literary retainer of one of the most reviled late-Sòng zǎixiàng — illustrates how political-moral judgment continued to shape the bibliographic transmission of major Tang texts well into the MíngQīng.