Dōngxī jí 東溪集
Eastern-Stream Collection by 高登 (撰), edited by 林希元 (編)
About the work
Dōngxī jí 東溪集 in 2 juǎn (上下) + 1-juǎn fùlù is the Míng recension of the literary collection of Gāo Dēng 高登 (d. 1148), Sòng Tàixué shēng of Xuānhé and one of the Jīngkāng (1126) loyalist memorialists who, alongside Chén Dōng 陳東, submitted the Liù zéi (Six Bandits) memorial. Edited by Lín Xīyuán 林希元 林希元 (Míng Zhèngdé 12 = 1517 jìnshì). The title takes Gāo’s hào Dōngxī 東溪. Originally 20 juǎn per Wénxiàn tōngkǎo, or 12 juǎn per Chén Zhènsūn KR3h0011 and Sòng shǐ Yìwénzhì; substantially reduced in the Míng recension to: 2 juǎn of writings (20 prose pieces — shū, shū, lùn, yì, biàn, shuō; 31 poems; 5 encomia; 26 inscriptions; 12 cí; 2 qǐ) + 1-juǎn fùlù (Zhū Xī’s bāolù memorial, two shrine-records, 10 yánxínglù entries).
Tiyao
Dōngxī jí in 2 juǎn, by Gāo Dēng of the Sòng. Dēng, zì Yànxiān, hào Dōngxī, of Zhāngpǔ. Xuānhé period as Tàixué shēng. Later — encountering the Jīngkāng catastrophe — Dēng with Chén Dōng and others fúquè shàngshū — requested-the-execution of Cài Jīng, Tóng Guàn etc. liù zéi, and to-employ Lǐ Gāng and Zhǒng Shīdào. Just-as Qīnzōng was-promoting Wú Mǐn and Zhāng Bāngchāng as prime-ministers and was about-to-employ Lǐ Bāngyàn, Dēng again sent-up letter forcefully-arguing.
Shàoxīng 2 (1132) graduated from Lǐbù; on the palace-debate’s qièzhí (incisive-uprightness) granted only Fùchuānbù; assigned Gǔxiàn lìng. At-the-time Hú Shùnzhì commanded Jìngjiāng and was-about-to build a shrine for Qín Guì’s father; Dēng held-it impossible; by [Hú] Shùnzhì wūgòu (slandered-and-trapped); arrested-and-tried; just-then [Hú] Shùnzhì fell — [Gāo] obtained reduced-from-death; banished-to Róngzhōu.
According to Sòng shǐ běnzhuàn: Dēng died, 20 years after, Prime Minister Liáng Kèjiā and Zhāngzhōu prefect Hé Wàn announced-to court — retroactively-restored Dígōngláng; further 10 years on, Zhū Xī as Prefect [of Zhāngzhōu] further memorialised-asking bāolù — granted Chéngwùláng. Today examining Zhū Zǐ’s zòuzhuàng: it says Liáng Kèjiā at-the-start invoked Shàoxīng shèshū to make-the-request; yǒusī (the bureau) jūwén fèigé (clung-to-formality, voiding-the-petition); not-implemented. In recent-years Fù Bóshòu further memorialised as the prior-statement; not yet authorised. Caused [Gāo] Dēng to bàohèn (cherish-grievance) for-his-whole-life; nearly 50 years his name was still in the criminal-register — etc. From this seen, the Sòng shǐ is in error.
Further by Shūlù jiětí’s Dōngxī jí entry — under-said Dígōngláng Gāo Dēng composed — knowing Dēng’s posthumous-grant had-no Chéngwùláng designation. And the so-called Dígōngláng — not Liáng Kèjiā at-the-time retroactively-restored — surely clear.
Further: Sòng shǐ records Dēng’s 5 letters were unanswered; later because-of-planning-to-southward-return suddenly-heard [Zhāng] Bāngchāng et al. each-with a distant commandery, at-once the petty-people sequentially-dismissed-and-rejected — what he had-said ǒuhé (occasionally-matched) for-7-or-8-out-of-10. Dēng was pleased; again composed-letter discussing-that Wú Mǐn was not-yet-dismissed. Not-replied. According-to-this then beyond-the-5-letters there should-be-one-more letter. Today reading-the-collection what’s-loaded — this-affair is the 5-letters’ fourth letter; the letter-head’s narrating fāng tú nánxià (just planning-to-go-southward) and other-language is-very-clear. This further enough-to verify Sòng shǐ’s màoluàn shīshí (confused-and-disordered, losing-truth).
As-for Shàoxīng 8 (1138)‘s Shàng huángdì shū — and the Zhàofù dūtáng time and the Shíyì 6 pieces front-and-back together-submitted — according-to Sòng shǐ makes-it 10,000-word memorial; while in the collection liáoliáo only-500-some characters; its cíqì rather has bùkě xiāngshǔ (incompatible) — this is the collection’s transmission-loss; not the shǐ’s error.
Dēng’s surviving collection — the Wénxiàn tōngkǎo makes-it 20 juǎn; Shūlù jiětí and Sòng shǐ Yìwénzhì both say 12 juǎn. This version is what Míng Lín Xīyuán edited; only divided as upper and lower 2 juǎn; shūshū lùnyì biànshuō etc. compositions altogether 20 pieces; poetry 31 pieces; zàn 5 pieces; zhēnmíng 26 pieces; cí 12 pieces; qǐ 2 pieces. End has fùlù 1 juǎn — that-is Zhū Zǐ’s bāolù zòuzhuàng, cítángjì two pieces, plus yánxínglù 10 entries. Shǐ says he submitted Shíyì 6 pieces — only-survives-its preface; what-he-submitted 5 letters has-already-lost-one. Further says, Shàoxīng 1 (1131) Dēng to Línān with 10 affairs presented — 1 juǎn; today also not-existing. Then this version has-passed-through its half. But Dēng’s zhōngyì gāngzhí (loyal-righteous, resolute-upright) — the world’s persons-of-discrimination always-look-up — fortunately-has the present-collection thus — also can be cherished. Respectfully collated, Qiánlóng (year not specified in source).
Abstract
The Dōngxī jí in the Míng Lín Xīyuán 林希元 林希元 recension preserves about half of Gāo Dēng’s surviving corpus. The Sòng-period 12-juǎn (Chén Zhènsūn) or 20-juǎn (Wénxiàn tōngkǎo) version is lost. The collection’s principal contents are the Jīngkāng / Jiànyán / Shàoxīng memorials and Gāo’s correspondence on the Hú Shùnzhì / Qín Guì shrine controversy.
The Sìkù editors perform two notable philological corrections: (a) the Sòng shǐ běnzhuàn’s claim that Liáng Kèjiā successfully restored Gāo’s Dígōngláng status during his prime-ministership is wrong — Zhū Xī’s preserved zòuzhuàng (in the fùlù) clarifies that Liáng’s request was stymied by bureaucratic formality and that 50 years passed before any restoration was granted; (b) the 5 memorials total recorded by Sòng shǐ should be a 6-memorial total — the běnshì (origin) of one of these is identifiable through internal evidence in the collection.
The catalog meta records the Míng editor as 李希元 (Lǐ Xīyuán); this is an error — the Sìkù tíyào itself names 林希元 (Lín Xīyuán), the well-known Míng Lǐxué scholar of Tóngān (1481–1565), as the editor.
CBDB id 27773 gives only deathyear 1148; the catalog meta has fl. 1132 (the Lǐbù graduation date), which is reasonable as a floruit approximation. Birth-year unknown.
Translations and research
- Sòng shǐ — Gāo Dēng biography (with the Sì-kù-flagged errors).
- 朱熹 Bāo-lù Gāo Dēng zòu-zhuàng — preserved as appendix in WYG.
- No dedicated Western-language monograph located.
Other points of interest
- The frontmatter editor-attribution to “李希元” follows the catalog meta (
data/catalogs/meta/KR4d.yaml); this is corrected here in prose to Lín Xīyuán 林希元, the well-known Míng Lǐxué scholar (1481–1565), per the WYG source’s own Sìkù tíyào. The catalog should be corrected.