Wēn Fēiqīng shī jí jiānzhù 溫飛卿詩集箋注
Annotated Verse Collection of Wēn Fēi-qīng [Wēn Tíng-yún] by 溫庭筠 (撰), 曾益 (註), 顧予咸 (補注), 顧嗣立 (重訂)
About the work
The Qīng critical edition (9 juǎn) of Wēn Tíngyún’s 溫庭筠 verse, with three layers of commentary:
- Zēng Yì 曾益 曾益 (zì Yǔqiān 予謙, of Shānyīn) — base annotation; finished in Tiānqǐ (1621–1627). Notes by Zēng are unsigned in the present text.
- Gù Yǔxián 顧予咸 顧予咸 (zì Xiǎoruǎn 小阮, of Chángzhōu; Shùnzhì 4 = 1647 jìnshì; rose to Lìbù kǎogōngsī yuánwàiláng) — supplementary notes; signed bǔ 補.
- Gù Sìlì 顧嗣立 顧嗣立 (zì Xiájūn 俠君; Kāngxī rénchén = 1712 jìnshì; shùjíshì turned zhōngshū shèrén; the celebrated compiler of Yuán shī xuǎn) — re-editing notes; signed àn 案. Yǔxián’s son.
Zēng’s base annotation has been corrected by Sìlì in significant detail. The tíyào identifies several typical errors: Zēng read the Hàn huáng yíngchūn cí as concerning Hàn Gāozǔ when it should be Hàn Chéngdì; the Hándān Guōgōng cí — a Northern-Qí yuèfǔ old title where Guōgōng refers to the kuǐlěi xì (puppet show) — was mis-emended through a transcription error (cí → cí 祠) into a Dōngjīng Guō Zǐyí shrine reference. The tíyào also flags a methodological problem: Zēng cites Bái Jūyì, Lǐ Hè, and Lǐ Shāngyǐn as glosses on Wēn’s lines (e.g., liè guǎn matched with Bái’s xīrán shēng zuò rú guǎn liè jù) — a defensible practice for Yángcí / qíyùn purposes (cf. Lǐ Shàn’s commentary on the Luòshén fù) but here used inconsistently.
Tiyao
Wēn Fēiqīng jí jiānzhù in 9 juǎn — Míng Zēng Yì compiled, Gù Yǔxián supplemented, his son Sìlì re-edited. Notes unsigned are Yì’s; signed bǔ are Yǔxián’s; signed Sìlì àn are continued notes. Yì zì Yǔqiān, of Shānyīn; book completed in Tiānqǐ period. Yǔxián zì Xiǎoruǎn, of Chángzhōu; Shùnzhì dīnghài jìnshì; Lìbù kǎogōngsī yuánwàiláng. Sìlì zì Xiájūn, Kāngxī rénchén jìnshì, shùjíshì turned zhōngshū shèrén. Zēng’s notes have many errors: the Hàn huáng yíngchūn cí concerns Hàn Chéngdì, not Hàn Gāozǔ; the Hándān Guōgōng cí is a Northern Qí yuèfǔ old title for puppet plays (kuǐlěi xì) — the old text mis-wrote cí (lyric) as cí (shrine), so Yì associated it with the Dōngjīng Guō Zǐyí shrine to fit the corruption. Sìlì has all corrected — kǎojù fairly precise.
But Sìlì cites Bái Jūyì, Lǐ Hè, and Lǐ Shāngyǐn for poems-as-glosses — Lǐ Shàn jiě Luòshén fù yuànyóulǚ uses Fán Qīn’s Dìngqíng shī; ancients have such precedent. But the Yèyàn yáo “liè guǎn” matched with Bái’s xīrán shēng zuò rú guǎn liè; the Xiǎo xiān yáo “xià shì jiǔzhōu” matched with Hè’s yáowàng Qízhōu jiǔdiǎn yān; the Shēng méi píngfēng gē “yínyā” matched with Shāngyǐn’s shuìyā xiānglú huàn xī xūn — all over-extended.
Táng yìwénzhì records Wòlán jí 3, Jīnquán jí 10, shījí 5, Hànnán zhēngǎo 10; Sòng zhì same. Chén Zhènsūn’s Shūlù jiětí: Fēiqīng jí 7 juǎn. Lù Yóu’s Wèinán jí has a Wēn Tíngyún jí bá: “father’s old copy starts with Huáqīng gōng poem; among them Zǎo xíng poem; later got Shǔ print, Zǎo xíng already lost.” Wénxiàn tōngkǎo: Wēn Tíngyún Jīnquán jí 7 + biéjí 1 — already not one Sòng print. Zēng’s edition combined into 4 juǎn, named Bāchā jí (after the fù-composition anecdote of his folded-arms-eight-crossings nickname) — invented heading. Sìlì’s edition restores Sòng-print lineage: shījí 7 + biéjí 1, plus 1 juǎn of supplementary recovery from Wényuàn yīnghuá and Wàn shǒu juéjù — total 9. More complete than Zēng. But not the Tang original.
Abstract
The Sìkù WYG version of Wēn Tíngyún’s verse is the Gù Sìlì re-edition of Zēng Yì’s late-Míng commentary as supplemented by Gù Yǔxián. The text is in 9 juǎn (7 shījí + 1 biéjí + 1 supplement) — restored from the late-Míng 4-juǎn corruption of Zēng’s Bāchā jí — but still not the Tang original. The triple commentary (Míng → early-Qīng → mid-Kāng-xī Qīng) traces a typical late-imperial biéjí commentary genealogy: each layer corrects predecessors, fills gaps from anthologies, and adds methodological precision. Wēn’s verse-art — dense, ornamental, mytho-historical-erotic, the model for Sòng Xīkūn parallel-prose — is what Zēng began trying to gloss; Gù Sìlì’s mid-Kāng-xī work made the project nearly completionist. The CBDB id 447567 has no dates; the standard reference work dates Wēn at c. 812–c. 870, with verse activity recorded for Dàzhōng (847–860) and Xiántōng (860–874) periods.
Translations and research
- See KR4c0077 for the SBCK Sòng-print edition.
- 劉學鍇 Liú Xué-kǎi. 2007. Wēn Tíng-yún quán jí jiào-zhù 溫庭筠全集校注. 3 vols. Zhōng-huá. The standard modern edition.
- 顧嗣立 Gù Sì-lì himself produced the Yuán shī xuǎn in 100 juǎn — a major early-Qīng anthological project — and his Wēn commentary is one of his early works.
Other points of interest
Gù Sìlì’s correction of Zēng Yì’s Hàndān Guōgōng cí misreading is one of the more telling examples of Qīng kǎojù fixing a chain of errors: the original text cí 詞 (lyric) had been miscopied as cí 祠 (shrine), Zēng then read Guōgōng cí as a shrine to Guō Zǐyí (the founder of the Dōngjīng Fényáng wáng cí), missing entirely that Guōgōng in this Northern-Qí yuèfǔ title is a generic name for the puppet (kuǐlěi) protagonist of the Northern-and-Southern-Dynasty puppet show. The example became a commonplace in Qīng kǎojù methodology lessons.