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Text ID
KR4c0047
Date
1700–1747
Dynasty
唐 (criticism 清)

Hán jí diǎnkān 韓集點勘

Critical Notes on the Hán Yù Collection by 陳景雲 (撰)

About the work

Hán jí diǎnkān 韓集點勘 in 4 juǎn is the early-Qīng critical commentary on the Hán Yù 韓愈 Dōngyǎtáng edition (= KR4c0046), by Chén Jǐngyún 陳景雲 (1670–1747; zì Shàozhāng 少章). Chén — the same scholar whose Tōngjiàn Húzhù jǔzhèng 通鑑胡注舉正 corrected the standard Yuán-period commentary on the Zīzhì tōngjiàn — went through the Dōngyǎtáng edition (which he correctly identified as a Míng reprint of Liào Yíngzhōng’s 廖瑩中 Shìcǎitáng original) and produced detailed corrections to its annotations: Liào’s textual source-tracing was sloppy (“cū shè wényì, quán wú xuéshí 麄涉文義全無學識”), and Chén traced Hán Yù’s allusions back to their original sources (the Ěryǎ, the Lǐ Bái Mèng yóu Tiānmǔ shī, the Zhōulǐ Zhèng zhù, the Máo shī Zhèng jiān, the Jīngdiǎn shìwén, the Wèi Wéndì yǔ Wú Zhì shū, and others) where Liào had given indirect or wrong references.

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Hán jí diǎnkān in 4 juǎn — by Chén Jǐngyún of the present dynasty. Jǐngyún is the same as the author of Tōngjiàn Húzhù jǔzhèng. This text criticizes the errors of the Liào Yíngzhōng Shìcǎitáng annotations on the Hán Yù collection; it is therefore organized as a corrective annotation on each disputed passage. The opening notes “collated against the Dōngyǎtáng edition” (because Liào’s original Sòng print was unobtainable; Liào’s notes were transmitted via Xú Shítài’s Míng Dōngyǎtáng reprint = KR4c0046). At the end of the book Chén self-colophons saying Liào “was rough on the meaning, completely without scholarship; not only was his selection from many commentators inappropriate, but his own grasp of the meaning was loose.”

Now examining the text: Chén’s collation cross-checks history and biography, corrects glosses, deletes redundancies, and supplies lacunae — far more careful than the original. For example: the Bié zhì fù 別知賦’s “yī dàn wèi chóu 一旦為仇” line is documented through Ěryǎ; the YuánHé shèngdé shī 元和聖德詩’s “má liè 麻列” through Lǐ Bái’s Mèng yóu Tiānmǔ shī; the Chéngnán liánjù 城南聯句’s “jiāng méng 疆氓” through Zhōulǐ Zhèng zhù; the Liángguó gōngzhǔ wǎngē 梁國公主挽歌’s “yàn dí 厭翟” through Máo shī Zhèng jiān; the Shī shuō 師說 punctuation through Jīngdiǎn shìwén; the Sòng Hán shìyù xù 送韓侍御序’s “suǒ zhì 所治” through Wèi Wéndì yǔ Wú Zhì shū. Chén also has appended a Wéndào xiānshēng mùzhìmíng 文道先生墓誌銘 by Wáng Jùn 王峻 (a contemporary friend, who wrote Chén’s funerary inscription).

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Abstract

The Hán jí diǎnkān is the principal Qīng kǎojù critical engagement with the SòngYuán annotated HánYù tradition. Chén’s identifications — particularly his recognition of the Dōngyǎtáng edition as a Míng reprint of Liào’s Shìcǎitáng original (despite Xú Shítài’s deliberate omission of Liào’s name) — are foundational to the modern bibliographic understanding of the SòngYuán HánYù transmission. The collection’s appended Wéndào xiānshēng mùzhìmíng 文道先生墓誌銘 by Wáng Jùn 王峻 王峻 — Chén’s contemporary and the author of his funerary inscription — provides the principal biographical source for Chén himself.

Chén Jǐngyún (1670–1747; CBDB cbdbId per existing person note) was a Wújiāng 吳江 native (modern Sūzhōu); a private literatus rather than examination-distinguished. His corpus of Qīng kǎojù corrections — Tōngjiàn Húzhù jǔzhèng on the Sīmǎ Guāng / Hú Sānxǐng tradition, the present Hán jí diǎnkān, and various other titles — established him as one of the principal mid-Kāng-xī / Yōngzhèng critical commentators.

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The Hán jí diǎnkān is one of the cleanest examples of early-Qīng kǎojù deployed against SòngYuán jízhù — Chén’s systematic source-tracing represents the late-imperial counter-current to the jízhù tradition’s tolerance for second-hand citation, and anticipates the QiánJiā evidential scholarship of a generation later.

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