Ōuyáng Xiūzhuàn jí 歐陽修撰集
Editorial Compiler Ōu-yáng (Chè) Collection by 歐陽澈 (撰)
About the work
Ōuyáng Xiūzhuàn jí 歐陽修撰集 in 7 juǎn is the literary collection of Ōuyáng Chè 歐陽澈 (1091–1127), the Jiànyán-period memorialist and Tàixué loyalist who was executed alongside Chén Dōng 陳東 陳東 for opposing Huáng Qiánshàn 黃潛善 and Wāng Bóyàn 汪伯彥. The title takes Ōuyáng Chè’s posthumous Bìgé xiūzhuàn office (= “Editorial Compiler of the Imperial Library”, the rank Gāozōng later granted in regret). The print history runs through five named editions from Shàoxīng 26 (1156) to Wànlì jiǎyín (1614). Originally 8 juǎn; the Sìkù recension lacks juǎn 8 (which contained Chén Dōng’s parallel memorials, separately preserved in KR4d0188). The collection’s principal contents are the three Jīngkāng memorials and the Piāorán jí 飄然集 poetry edited by Wú Hàng in 1156.
Tiyao
Ōuyáng Xiūzhuàn jí in 7 juǎn, by Ōuyáng Chè of the Sòng. Chè, zì Démíng, of Chóngrén. Jìngkāng period once responded-to-decree, sent-up three letters; vehemently-discussed current-government; words much pointed-upright. Jiànyán beginning, again on-foot ran-to the temporary-capital; prostrating-at-palace-gate, sent-up letter requesting the execution of Huáng Qiánshàn and Wāng Bóyàn — by [Huáng] Qiánshàn slandered. With Chén Dōng both lùnsǐ (sentenced-to-death). Later Gāozōng regretted-it; retroactively-granted Bìgé xiūzhuàn. Career in Sòng shǐ Zhōngyì zhuàn.
Shàoxīng 26 (1156), Wú Hàng compiled Chè’s composed poetry into Piāorán jí 3 juǎn; together composed-the-preface. By Jiādìng jiǎshēn (1224), Kuàijī Hú Yǎn further took his sent-up three letters and the preface and cut-them; arranged as 6 juǎn. By Yuán-end the blocks burnt in war.
Míng Yǒnglè bǐngshēn (1416), Chè’s tenth-generation-descendant Yǒngkāngxiàn deputy [Ōuyáng] Qí 齊 reprinted-it. Jīnhuá Táng Guāngzǔ’s colophon says: His book is compiled into 3 juǎn; poetry-and-prose career as 4 juǎn. The contemporaneous Chén Dōng’s same-submitted letters also gathered-with-no-loss; together-taken to-attach as 1 juǎn. Combined for 8 juǎn. What is called zànfǔ shìzhuāngfǔ — that is [Ōuyáng] Qí’s zì.
But Yǒnglè dīngyǒu (1417), Chóngrén magistrate Wáng Kèyì preface says: [Ōuyáng] Qí recorded the front-and-back memorials, then-with the Piāorán jí, divided as 6 juǎn — does-not-match Guāngzǔ’s colophon. Surely the words have detail-and-brevity, but actually are one-version. Wànlì jiǎyín (1614) Chè’s twentieth-generation descendant [Ōuyáng] Yuè 鉞 again-renewed his blocks; Wú Dàonán wrote-the-preface. This version is from [Ōuyáng] Yuè’s printing transcribed; lacking the eighth juǎn of Chén Dōng’s letters. Yet [Chén] Dōng already has separate-collection single-circulating (KR4d0188); need-not be appended at-this. Today still per this-version fixed as 7 juǎn. Respectfully collated, Qiánlóng 44 (1779), 10th month.
Abstract
The Ōuyáng Xiūzhuàn jí preserves the most extensive surviving documentary record of the second of the two great Jīngkāng / Jiànyán-period Tàixué loyalists. The print history is unusually well-documented: Shàoxīng 26 (1156) Wú Hàng Piāorán jí (3 juǎn, poetry only) → Jiādìng 17 (1224) Hú Yǎn expansion (6 juǎn, adding three Jīngkāng memorials) → Yuán-end blocks destroyed → Yǒnglè 14 (1416) Ōuyáng Qí reprint (8 juǎn, adding Chén Dōng appendix) → Hóngzhì dīngyǒu (1497) Wáng Kèyì preface → Wànlì 42 (1614) Ōuyáng Yuè recutting → Sìkù recension (7 juǎn, the Chén Dōng appendix-juǎn 8 omitted as duplicative of KR4d0188).
The Wú Hàng original preface (1156) — preserved at the head of the WYG — is a remarkable document, comparing Ōuyáng Chè to Lǐ Bái (in literary force) and Chén Dōng to Dù Fǔ (in loyalist gravity), establishing the parallel-pair canon of the Two Loyalists.
CBDB id 24851 gives 1091–1127; catalog meta has 1097–1127. CBDB followed (the Sòng shǐ records execution at age 37, consistent with 1091 birth).
Translations and research
- Sòng shǐ j. 455 Zhōng-yì zhuàn — Ōu-yáng Chè biography (paired with Chén Dōng).
- 吳沆 Piāo-rán jí xù (1156) — preserved at head of WYG.
- No dedicated Western-language monograph located. Treated in surveys of the Jīng-kāng / Jiàn-yán crisis.
Other points of interest
- The pair Ōuyáng Chè + Chén Dōng — both executed by Huáng Qiánshàn; both rehabilitated by Gāozōng — became a canonical Sòng zhōngyì dyad. Read KR4d0189 together with KR4d0188 for the full pair of Tàixué loyalist documentary corpora.