Ānyuè jí 安岳集
The Ān-yuè Collection (of Féng Shān) by 馮山 (撰)
About the work
Ānyuè jí 安岳集 is the surviving fragment of the literary collection of Féng Shān 馮山 (1031–1094, original name Xiànnéng 獻能, zì Yǔnnán 允南), a Jiāyòu 2 / 1057 jìnshì and Sìchuān poet who refused to comply with the Xīníng New Policies and was recalled only in Yuányòu on Fàn Zǔyǔ 范祖禹’s recommendation. The original was a 30-juǎn collection (cut together with his son Féng Xiè 馮澥’s 45-juǎn collection at Lúzhōu in Jiādìng 12 / 1219 by Zhōu Ruì 周銳, with prefaces by Liú Guāngzǔ 劉光祖 and Hé Dégù 何悳固); by the Sìkù editors’ time the mùlù (table of contents) was complete but everything from juǎn 13 on was missing — only the first 12 juǎn of poetry survived. Féng Xiè’s collection was entirely lost. The same surviving state is recorded in Xú Qiánxué 徐乾學’s Chuánshìlóu shūmù 傳是樓書目 — confirming the Sìkù editors’ inheritance of an early-Qing private-collector recension.
Tiyao
The Sìkù tíyào: Ānyuè jí in 12 juǎn by Féng Shān of the Sòng. Shān, zì Yǔnnán, originally named Xiànnéng, of Ānyuè. Jiāyòu 2 / 1057 jìnshì; ended his career as Cíbù lángzhōng. Shān’s poetry and prose came to 30 juǎn; in Jiādìng (1208–1224) the Lú-man Zhōu Ruì 周銳 combined-cut it with his son Xiè 澥’s wénjí; preceded by Liú Guāngzǔ’s Tàishī Zuǒchéng héjí xù and Hé Dégù’s Èr Féng xiānshēng wénjí xù. In this copy, Xiè’s collection is entirely lost; Shān’s mùlù though complete — from juǎn 13 on the poetry and prose are all missing. What remains alone is the first 12 juǎn — poetry only. Examination of Xú-shi Chuánshìlóu shūmù shows the same state — clearly a cánběn (mutilated copy). Shān was a contemporary of Méi Yáochén and Sū Shùnqīn; the era had already wholly transformed the Yáng (Yì) / Liú (Yún) Xīkūn manner — hence his poetry is píngzhèng tiáodá (level-correct, freely-flowing), without jiǎnhóng kècuì (red-cutting and green-carving) ornament. His Shàng Jīnlíng Wáng Jīnggōng 上金陵王荆公 (To Wáng Ānshí at Jīnlíng) poem has the line “gēngzhāng Hànfǎ xīn (changing the Hàn methods anew)” — the prefaces’ “in Xīfēng (period) was unable to comply with the New Policies” is here visible — clearly also a man of gěngjiè (flinty independence); hence his wén is sufficient to take a place. Xiè in Jìngkāng (1126) memorialized to halt Lǐ Gāng’s Xīhé xuānfǔ; later accepted Zhāng Bāngchāng’s puppet appointment, sinking his family reputation. Although his collection was cut alongside his father’s, in fact this is xūnyóu tóngqì (fragrant herb and stinking weed in one vessel); its non-transmission is in fact not to be lamented. Qiánlóng 44 (1779) 8th month, respectfully collated.
The two Jiādìng-period prefaces by Liú Guāngzǔ (in Jiādìng 12 / 1219) and Hé Dégù (in Jiādìng yǐhài / 1215) are preserved at the head. Liú’s preface gives Féng Shān’s death year as Shàoshèng yuánnián / 1094; both place the cutting in late Jiādìng.
Abstract
Féng Shān’s poetic position is that of an early Sìchuān poet of the MéiSū generation participating in the post-Xīkūn turn — the Sìkù notice of the gēngzhāng Hànfǎ xīn line (in the poem to Wáng Ānshí) is the touchstone for his political-poetic stance. Liú Guāngzǔ’s preface is one of the more articulate Southern-Sòng statements on the question of shíyùn (the times’ fortune) — Féng Shān’s “unlucky” Northern-Sòng career being recovered through his Southern-Sòng zǐsūn’s family memorial. The collection is bibliographically interesting in two ways: (1) the cánběn state — preserving the mùlù of the lost prose corpus — supplies a complete inventory of what has been lost; (2) the Sìkù editors’ explicit refusal to lament the loss of Féng Xiè’s collection (because of his collaboration with the Jurchen puppet Chǔ regime under Zhāng Bāngchāng) is one of the more striking moral-political judgments in the biéjí tíyào corpus. Dating bracket: Féng Shān’s death (1094) to the Sìkù re-collation (1779).
Translations and research
- No substantial secondary literature located in European languages. Cài Xián 蔡鎮 et al., 1989, Sòng-dài Sì-chuān shī-rén yán-jiū 宋代四川詩人研究 (Sì-chuān-shēng shè-kē-yuàn) treats Féng Shān briefly.
- Wáng Wén-cái 王文才. 1986. Sū Shì shī-jí jiào-zhù 蘇軾詩集校註 — citations of Féng Shān as Sū’s older Sì-chuān contemporary.
Other points of interest
The Sìkù editors’ moral assessment of Féng Xiè (the xūnyóu tóngqì figure) is unusual in the biéjí tíyào — most Northern-Sòng / Southern-Sòng transition figures who collaborated with the WěiChǔ puppet regime are not discussed in such direct terms. The fact that Liú Guāngzǔ — himself a Lǐxué-affiliated Southern-Sòng senior official — composed the preface for the joint cutting, presumably without strong sense of Féng Xiè’s later disgrace, complicates the Sìkù editors’ judgment.
Links
- Feng Shan (Wikidata)
- Wilkinson, Chinese History: A New Manual, §28.1 (Sòng biéjí); §44 (Xīníng / Yuányòu).