Jìnyún wénjí 縉雲文集
The Jìn-yún Collection by 馮時行 (撰), 李璽 (編)
About the work
Jìnyún wénjí 縉雲文集 in 4 juǎn is the surviving Míng recension of the literary collection of Féng Shíxíng 馮時行 (d. 1163, zì Dāngkě 當可, of Bìshān 壁山, modern Chóngqìng), the Sòng zhuàngyuán of Xuānhé 6 (1124) — though the Sìchuān tōngzhì misdates him to Jiāxī (1237–1240). The collection’s principal interest is its political: Féng was an outspoken opponent of the 1141 Qín Huì peace settlement, and a colleague of Zēng Kāi 曾開 and Zhū Sōng 朱松 (Zhū Xī’s father) in this stance, for which all three suffered demotion. The original Sòng zhì recorded a 43-juǎn collection; that was lost, and the present 4-juǎn recension was reconstructed by the Míng Chóngqìng tuīguān Lǐ Xǐ 李璽 in the Jiājìng era (1522–1566) from a surviving incomplete manuscript copy.
Tiyao
The Sìkù tíyào: the Jìnyún wénjí in 4 juǎn was composed by Féng Shíxíng of the Sòng. Shíxíng’s zì was Dāngkě, a man of Bìshān. In Shàoxīng yǐmǎo / bǐngchén (1135/1136) he was magistrate of Dānléngxiàn; dismissed and returned home; later went out as prefect of Péng zhōu / Lízhōu, ending as Tídiǎn Chéngdū xíngyù gōngshì (Surveillance Commissioner for Justice in Chéngdū). He once dwelt in Jìnyún Mountain north of his county and gave instruction there, hence the hào. The Sòng zhì records his collection in 43 juǎn; over the years it was scattered and lost. In the Jiājìng era, the Chóngqìng tuīguān Lǐ Xǐ for the first time obtained an old transcribed remnant text and edited it into 4 juǎn and put it in print; the present is transcribed from Lǐ’s printing.
Shíxíng has no biography in the Sòng shǐ. The Sìchuān tōngzhì says he, with Zēng Kāi, Zhū Sōng, and others, jointly denounced the peace settlement, crossing Qín Huì, and was punished. Reading his poetry-and-prose now, one can faintly see the qì of loyalty and yì; what the zhì records cannot be fabricated. Only the zhì makes him a Jiā-xī-era zhuàngyuán — but the collection itself plainly says he sat the examination at the start of Xuānhé, and there are poems of Jiànyán gēngxū Zhōngqiū (i.e. 1130) and a Shàoxīng 6th year 10th month 6th day (1136) — he certainly cannot be a Jiā-xī-era person. The Sòng zhuàngyuán lù also has no record of his name; the zhì must be a mistaken transmission. Qiánlóng 46 (1781), 10th month, respectfully collated.
Abstract
Féng Shíxíng is one of three Sìchuān officials (Féng, Zēng Kāi, and Zhū Sōng — Zhū Xī’s father) who jointly denounced the 1141 Qín Huì peace settlement with the Jin and were demoted as a group. He served as magistrate of Dānléng (in modern Sìchuān) c. 1135–1136, then as prefect of Péngzhōu and Lízhōu, ending as Sìchuān provincial tíxíng (justice surveillance commissioner). The Sìkù editors detect an internal date — a Jiànyán gēngxū Zhōngqiū poem (1130) — that contradicts the late Sìchuān tōngzhì’s mistaken claim that he was a Jiāxī-era (1237–1240) zhuàngyuán; he was in fact active in the late 1130s. The catalog meta gives d. 1163, consistent with internal dates and with his being remembered alongside Zēng Kāi and Zhū Sōng (who died 1143).
The original Sòng zhì 43-juǎn collection was lost. The Míng Chóngqìng tuīguān Lǐ Xǐ 李璽 recovered an old transcribed remnant in the Jiājìng era and edited it into 4 juǎn, which is what survives. Féng Shíxíng has no Sòngshǐ biography; the principal contemporary documentation is the Sìchuān tōngzhì and the internal evidence of the collection itself.
Translations and research
No substantial secondary literature located.
Other points of interest
The collection is one of the very few surviving witnesses to the Sìchuān contingent of the anti-Qín-Huì opposition. Féng’s collegial relationship with Zhū Sōng is incidentally important for the early-life context of Zhū Xī.