青山續集

Qīngshān xùjí 青山續集

The Qīng-shān Continuation Collection (of Guō Xiáng-zhèng) by 郭祥正 (撰)

About the work

Qīngshān xùjí 青山續集 in 7 juǎn is the continuation collection (sequel) to Guō Xiángzhèng 郭祥正 郭祥正’s principal Qīngshān jí 青山集 in 30 juǎn (= KR4d0096; directory missing in /home/Shared/krp/, see TODO.md). The work bears no preface or postface, but its bibliographical genuineness as a Sòng original is acknowledged by the Sìkù editors: it preserves materials supplementing the Sòngshǐ lièzhuàn’s account of Guō’s Zhāngnán internment (1082–1086, three years), including his Làngshì gē 浪士歌 self-preface (specifying his fall from Sū’s Wáng Ān-shí-clientship to Zhāngnán internment for three years and the assumption of his Zhāngnán làngshì sobriquet); the Zhāngnán shūshì (dated Yuánfēng 5 / 1082, qiū qīyuè shíjiǔ rì — late autumn 7th month, 19th day) recording the destructive storm; the Xīnchāng yín jì Yǐngshū dàizhì (dated Yuányòu bǐngyín / 1086) recording the CénTàn rebellion. Together these supplement the Sòngshǐ Wényuàn zhuàn lacuna on Guō’s Zhāngnán phase. The xùjí also preserves Guō’s late retirement at Dāngtú Qīngshān and his three poems offered at Wáng Ānshí’s Jiāngníng tomb — important documents of Guō’s continued loyalty to his old patron.

Tiyao

The Sìkù tíyào: Qīngshān xùjí in 7 juǎn by Guō Xiángzhèng of the Sòng. Xiángzhèng’s Qīngshān jí already cataloged. Sòngshǐ Yìwénzhì, Mǎ Duānlín’s Jīngjí kǎo, Cháo Gōngwǔ’s Dúshū zhì, Chén Zhènsūn’s Shūlù jiětí — all the Qīngshān jí in 30 juǎn — none gives the title xùjí. This běn before-and-after has no preface or postface — none can identify who edited and arranged it. However examining its cíyì (diction-and-meaning) it is verifiably a Sòng-people old běn — not a yītuō (forgery) of later persons. Examined: Sòngshǐ běnzhuàn — Xiángzhèng after retirement lived at Gūshú (= Dāngtú), no longer pursuing advance; his dwelling had a Zuìyínān; long after, started as Tōngpàn Tīngzhōu; later as zhī Duānzhōu — again abandoned; settled at Dāngtú’s Qīngshān, dying there. The present xùjí has a Làngshì gē — self-preface saying: “Master Guō, abandoning office at Héféi, returned to Gūshú, self-styled Zuìyín xiānshēng. After living five years some said his still-not-old, recommendable for office; affair recommended to the upper; the upper soon recalled — restored to xù (precedence) at the court; ordered to monitor MǐnTīngjùn; soon assumed-defense of Zhāngnán; the upper again recalled; on the way the Mǐn shǐzhě (provincial commissioner) memorialized his zuì; thereupon was committed to officialdom — kept at Zhāng almost three years; further self-styled Zhāngnán làngshì.” The collection has many liú Zhāngnán shī — clearly the shǐ’s “after as zhī Duānzhōu again abandoned office” is wrong. This can supplement Sòngshǐ běnzhuàn’s lacuna. The Zhāngnán shūshì says: “Yuánfēng 5 qiū qīyuè shíjiǔ rì — fierce wind all night, root-up trees and ruined houses.” The Xīnchāng yín jì Yǐngshū dàizhì says: “Yuányòu bǐngyín dōng — Xīnchāng had a desperate-bandit named CénTàn — basic surname — initially good at sorcery and curses.” Examined: Yuánfēng 5 to Yuányòu 1 bǐngyín — exactly matches the poem-preface’s “kept at Zhāngnán three years” count. Then Xiángzhèng’s denounced and committed-to-officialdom was in Yuánfēng 5 / 1082, and his return was in Yuányòu 1 / 1086; and the CénTàn rebellion incident — Sòngshǐ also has not detail. From this — both can be cross-referenced with shǐzhuàn. Further: Qīngshān jí loaded Sòng Jiǎng Yǐngshū dàizhì bài Liùlù dūyùn one poem says: lángmiào fácái zhōng dàyòng, yuàn jūn héqì jí yányōu (the court lacks talent, finally great use; may you bring harmony to the cliffs and recesses) — zìzhù says: “I have already requested gǔhái (skeleton-leave / retirement), about to return to old lú (cottage)”; zàisòng Yǐngshū says: yúnjiān jìwěi zhōngnánfù, méizǐ huángshí gōng zìguī (in the cloud, the jì-tail is finally hard to attach; when the plums are yellow, the lord himself returns); zìzhù says: “the lord repeatedly has fine jù, with-promise mutual return”; further has méngzhào xǔguī juéjù two pieces; the cìyùn Lín Biànzhī chángguān sòngbié piece says: láoluò míngshēng chánbàng hòu, zhīlí xíngyǐng zhàngfēn yú; chónglái shìlù shéi wèi yuán, quèfǎn jiāyuán yù zìrú (clattering-fame after slander, parting body-shadow miasma’s residue; coming back to office way who is ally, returning to home garden wishes self-as-before). With these poems combined with the xùjí Làngshì gē’s zìxù — his re-emergence one episode — the shìjì are first complete. Only the shǐ records Xiángzhèng initially recommended Wáng Ānshí — dismissed from office; Qīngshān jí has Diàn Wáng Jīnggōng fén three poems saying “Dàshǒu céng jiāng yuándǐng tiáo, lóng chén hè qù shì liáoliáo” (the great-hand once tuned the great-tripod; the dragon sinks, the crane departs, deeds become silent); further “Píngxī piān méng ài, xiǎoshī jīnrì yínjiù shéi fù zhī” (Píngxī encountered exceptional affection; my small-poem today reciting yet — who knows?) — his attitude toward Ānshí is fully visible. Qiánlóng 46 (1781).

Abstract

Qīngshān xùjí preserves materials supplementing the principal Qīngshān jí — particularly the Zhāngnán internment phase (1082–1086) and the post-retirement Qīngshān phase. Bibliographically the work’s lack of preface / postface and its omission from all the major Sòng catalogs (Sòngshǐ Yìwénzhì, Mǎ Duānlín, Cháo Gōngwǔ, Chén Zhènsūn) makes it a delicate witness — but the Sìkù editors’ careful internal-evidence demonstration of its Sòng provenance (the Yuánfēng 5 / 1082 to Yuányòu 1 / 1086 dating fits exactly the three-year Zhāngnán internment) is decisive. Together with the Qīngshān jí’s three poems on Wáng Ānshí’s Jiāngníng tomb (Diàn Wáng Jīnggōng fén) the collection establishes Guō as a bùyí qí jiù (loyalty-not-changing-from-old-patron) figure, despite his proscription. The CénTàn rebellion (1086 Xīnchāng) — recounted in this xùjí — supplements the Sòngshǐ lacuna on the late-Yuánfēng / early-Yuányòu MǐnZhè peripheral disturbances. Dating bracket: end of Yuányòu / bǐngyín (1086 — the xùjí’s last datable piece) to the Sìkù re-collation (1781).

Translations and research

• Bol, Peter K. 1992. “This Culture of Ours”. Stanford UP.
• Egan, Ronald C. 1994. Word, Image, and Deed in the Life of Su Shi. Harvard. Background on the Sū-mén circle and Guō’s location vis-à-vis it.
• Liú Wén-jūn 劉文龍. 1990. Guō Xiáng-zhèng yán-jiū 郭祥正研究. Sì-chuān bā-shǔ. Standard biography.

Other points of interest

The Sìkù editors’ careful demonstration that Sòngshǐ Wényuàn zhuàn’s account of Guō’s career is incomplete (omitting the Zhāngnán internment phase) — based entirely on internal-evidence dating from this xùjí — is one of the more elegant bǐjí-supplements-shǐzhuàn exercises in the Sìkù corpus. Guō’s Diàn Wáng Jīnggōng fén poems (in the principal Qīngshān jí, missing from KRP) are among the more poignant Northern-Sòng Wáng Ānshí-mourning compositions, recording continued personal loyalty across the Yuányòu coalition’s decisive rejection of the New Policies.

Links

• Guo Xiangzheng (Wikidata)
• Wilkinson, Chinese History: A New Manual, §28.1 (Sòng biéjí).