Yùzhāng wénjí 豫章文集
Yù-zhāng (Camphor-Wood) Prose Collection by 羅從彥 (撰), edited by 曹道振 (編)
About the work
Yùzhāng wénjí 豫章文集 — titled as 17 juǎn, but with juǎn 1 (classical exegesis) lost so that the actual extant juǎn count is 16 — is the literary collection of Luó Cóngyàn 羅從彥 (1072–1135), the Mǐnxué (Fú-jiàn-school) Dàoxué master who transmitted Yáng Shí’s KR4d0119 ÈrChéng learning to Lǐ Tóng (and thence to Zhū Xī). Edited at Zhìzhèng 3 (1343) by Yánpíng jìnshì Cáo Dàozhèn 曹道振 曹道振. The title takes Luó’s hào Yùzhāng xiānshēng 豫章先生. The principal contents are the Zūn Yáo lù 遵堯錄 (8 juǎn; Luó’s principal historical-philosophical treatise on imperial conduct) and a 1-juǎn compilation of teachings from the two Chéng’s and from Yáng Shí.
Tiyao
The local source directory /home/Shared/krp/KR4d/[[KR4d0182]]/ actually contains a different work — the SBCK reproduction of Yùzhāng Huáng xiānshēng wénjí 豫章黃先生文集 by 黃庭堅 (Huáng Tíngjiān) — owing to a file-system mis-attribution. This text record describes Luó Cóngyàn’s Yùzhāng wénjí as recorded in the catalog meta and the Sìkù tíyào.
The following is translated from the Kyoto Zinbun digital Sìkù quánshū zǒngmù tíyào (集部十 別集類十; Yùzhāng wénjí 17 juǎn; entry no. 0330701; source-edition 浙江鮑士恭家藏本):
By Luó Cóngyàn of the Sòng. Cóngyàn, zì Zhòngsù, of Shāxiàn. By cumulative-jǔ recommendation, appointed Huìzhōu Bóluóxiàn zhǔbù. Shàoxīng beginning, died. Chúnyòu (1241–52), retroactively-canonised Wénzhì. Career in Sòng shǐ Dàoxué zhuàn.
This compilation is what Zhìzhèng 3 (1343) Yánpíng jìnshì Cáo Dàozhèn compiled. Because Sòng rú called Cóngyàn the Yùzhāng xiānshēng, accordingly named the collection thus.
[Cáo] Dàozhèn’s original-preface says: the prefectural-resident Xǔ Yuántáng cut his surviving-collection in 5 juǎn; recently obtained the prefectural-resident Wú Shàozōng’s manuscript — divided as 13 juǎn + fùlù 3 juǎn + wàijí 1 juǎn + niánpǔ 1 juǎn — altogether 18 juǎn. This version is what the Míng dynasty re-cut. At-the-front there is the Chénghuà 8 (1472) Zhāng Tài preface; at-the-back has Jiājìng jiǎyín (1554) Xiè Luán colophon.
Zūn Yáo lù 8 juǎn, ÈrChéng and Yáng Guīshān’s yǔlù 1 juǎn, zázhù 2 juǎn, jí 1 juǎn, fùlù 3 juǎn, wàijí 1 juǎn; with the niánpǔ separately-placed at-the-front, not entering the juǎn-count. Hence the title 17 juǎn. But the first juǎn, although listing the jīngjiě (classical-exegesis) heading, the prose long-perished. Yǒu lù wú shū (has-listing without-book). Actually only 16 juǎn.
Abstract
The Yùzhāng wénjí is the principal documentary witness to the Mǐnxué (Fú-jiàn-school) Dàoxué lineage Yáng Shí → Luó Cóngyàn → Lǐ Tóng → Zhū Xī. Luó held only minor office (zhǔbù) and his collection was not extensively printed during his lifetime; the editorial reconstruction was undertaken in the late Yuán by Cáo Dàozhèn 曹道振 (Yánpíng jìnshì of 1343), drawing on the earlier 5-juǎn Xǔ Yuántáng cut and a 13-juǎn Wú Shàozōng manuscript. The Míng Chénghuà 8 (1472) reprint by Zhāng Tài, with the Jiājìng 1554 colophon by Xiè Luán, is the basis for all later transmission, including the WYG (which is the seed for the catalog meta entry).
The principal content is the Zūn Yáo lù 遵堯錄 in 8 juǎn — Luó’s substantial treatise on imperial conduct, working through historical instances. The 1-juǎn compilation of ÈrChéng and Yáng Shí yǔlù is independently valuable for the Mǐnxué lineage. Juǎn 1 — originally containing classical exegesis (jīngjiě) — was lost before the Yuán recension, and the Sìkù editors note “yǒu lù wú shū” (listing-without-book), so the actual extant juǎn-count is 16.
CBDB confirms Luó’s lifedates 1072–1135 (id 25127); Cáo Dàozhèn’s lifedates are not preserved in CBDB.
Translations and research
- Sòng shǐ Dào-xué zhuàn — Luó Cóng-yàn biography.
- Sòng yuán xué-àn — Luó’s Mǐn-xué lineage.
- 曹道振 yuán-xù (1343) — preserved at head of WYG.
- No dedicated Western-language monograph located. The collection is treated in surveys of Zhū Xī’s intellectual genealogy — specifically the Yáng → Luó → Lǐ → Zhū transmission line.
Other points of interest
- The Zūn Yáo lù in 8 juǎn is one of the substantial early-Southern-Sòng Dàoxué historiographic treatises on imperial conduct. Its 8 juǎn exceed the 1 juǎn of poetry — Luó’s literary self-presentation was clearly through the philosophical-historiographic mode rather than the biéjí lyric mode.
- File-system note: the source directory
/home/Shared/krp/KR4d/[[KR4d0182]]/actually contains the SBCK Yùzhāng Huáng xiānshēng wénjí 豫章黃先生文集 by Huáng Tíngjiān. The misattribution is logged in TODO.md and should be corrected at the source.