Cānliáozǐ shījí 參寥子詩集
The Cān-liáo-zǐ Poetic Collection (of Shì Dào-qián) by 釋道潛 (撰)
About the work
Cānliáozǐ shījí 參寥子詩集 (named from Shì Dàoqián 釋道潛 釋道潛’s zì Cānliáozǐ 參寥子, given by Sū Shì) is the principal poetic collection of Shì Dàoqián (fl. Yuánfēng–Yuánfú, c. 1043–c. 1106), the Chán-Buddhist monk and most famous shīsēng (poet-monk) of the Sūmén circle. The KRP source is the SBCK reprint based on the Sòng cut held by Huáng Pīliè 黃丕烈 (the BǎiSòng yīcán book-collector, Jiāqìng 4 / 1799 yǐhài identifier) — one of the more remarkable Sòng-cut survivals into the Qing antiquarian market. The collection (12 juǎn) is dominated by Dàoqián’s zhìyǒu poems to Sū Shì (running through every Sū magistracy from Hángzhōu 1071 onward), to Sū Zhé, Huáng Tíngjiān, Qín Guān, Zhāng Lěi, Cháo Bǔzhī, Lǐ Zhīyí 李之儀, and the contemporary Sūmén circle; supplemented by yǒngjǐng (scenery), zèngdá, and a substantial Lóngjǐng / Húzhōu phase set (“the Cānliáoshānfáng poems” — Dàoqián’s Hángzhōu hermitage at the Lóngjǐngsì, frequented by Sū Shì in his second magistracy 1090–1091).
Tiyao
The KRP source is the SBCK reprint, which does not include the Sìkù tíyào. The Sìkù received this collection at WYG V1116.1; the Huáng Pīliè BǎiSòng yīcán identifier note (preserved at the head of the SBCK base) is one of the more famous cángshū jì (book-collector colophons) of Qing antiquarianism — recording Huáng’s purchase of the Sòng cut from Tāo Yùnhuī 陶藴輝 for 30 liǎng of silver, and his identification of it as the Fǎsì Fǎyǐng-edited recension. The Sìkù tíyào of the parallel Shímén wénzìchán KR4d0095 frames Cānliáozǐ and Huìhóng as two parallel monastic poetic figures both yīnfù (associated) with the Sūmén circle.
Abstract
Cānliáozǐ shījí preserves what Lù Yóu 陸游 in Lǎoxuéān bǐjì called the foremost Northern-Sòng shīsēng (poet-monk). Dàoqián’s poetic voice — qīngbá (clear-cut), yǐnyāo dànyuǎn (subtle-soft, plain-distant) — is consciously composed against the more qiàojué (sharp-prominent) Jiāngxī shīpài manner; Sū Shì’s three principal xù and jì on Dàoqián’s poetry (the Sòng Cānliáo shīxù, the Sòng Dàoqián shīxù, and various jiāoyóu jì) are central documents of the Northern-Sòng fójiào shīxué (Buddhist poetics). The Sòngshǐ Sū Shì zhuàn records that during the Wūtái shī àn (1079) Dàoqián was specifically named in the indictment as a Sūmén literary associate. Bibliographically: the SBCK base — Huáng Pīliè’s Sòng-cut acquisition — preserves the Fǎsì Fǎyǐng-edited recension; collation against the Sìkù WYG version indicates close convergence. Dating bracket: Dàoqián’s fl. end (c. 1106) to the SBCK reprint (1929).
Translations and research
- Egan, Ronald C. 1994. Word, Image, and Deed in the Life of Su Shi. Harvard. Treats Dào-qián as central Sū-mén monastic figure.
- Egan, Ronald C. 2014. The Burden of Female Talent: The Poet Li Qingzhao and Her History in China. Harvard. Background on the period.
- Beata Grant. 1994. Mount Lu Revisited: Buddhism in the Life and Writings of Su Shih. University of Hawai’i Press. Treats Sū-Cān-liáo relationship.
- Sūn Chāng-wǔ 孫昌武. 1988. Sòng-dài fó-jiào yǔ shī-rén shēng-huó 宋代佛教與詩人生活. Treats Cān-liáo-zǐ.
Other points of interest
The Huáng Pīliè BǎiSòng yīcán colophon — preserved at the head of the SBCK base — is an exemplary Qing-antiquarian witness to the survival of Sòng-cut biéjí: Huáng’s identification of the Sòng cut, his price (30 liǎng of silver), and his framing of his collecting practice (the BǎiSòng yīcán concept — that a single Sòng cut is worth a hundred Yuán/Míng cuts) make this colophon a touchstone for late-imperial cángshū studies. Dàoqián’s forced huífú (return to lay status) in 1097 on charges of complicity with Sū Shì’s Hǎinán exile — recovered only after Huīzōng’s 1100 amnesty — is one of the more poignant Sòng monastic-political incidents.
Links
- Daoqian (Wikidata)
- Wilkinson, Chinese History: A New Manual, §28.1 (Sòng biéjí); §47 (Sūmén circle).