Gōngjiào jí 宮教集
The Palace-Tutor Collection by 崔敦禮 (撰)
About the work
Gōngjiào jí 宮教集 in 12 juǎn is the surviving recension of the literary collection of Cuī Dūnlǐ 崔敦禮 (d. 1181), the gōngjiào (Palace-Tutor) of the title indicating his late tenure as Tàizǐ gōng jiàoshòu (Crown-Prince’s Palace Tutor). The author has the Chúyán 芻言 KR3a-? separately listed in Zǐbù. The collection’s principal interest — preserved at juǎn 5 — is the memorial Jìn chóng shàndìng Lǚ Zǔqiān suǒ biān Wénjiàn zházǐ: a memorial submitting the corrected-emendation of Lǚ Zǔqiān’s 呂祖謙 Sòng wénjiàn anthology, presented after Lǚ’s death (1181). The Sìkù editors note that the SòngCháo zájì and Zhū Xī’s 朱熹 Yǔlèi both attribute the Wénjiàn re-editing to Cuī’s elder brother Cuī Dūnshī 崔敦詩 (zì Dàyǎ 大雅), the Zhíyuàn (Cabinet-Drafter), not to Cuī Dūnlǐ — the Yǒnglè dàdiǎn may have misattributed the zházǐ to Cuī Dūnlǐ; or alternatively Cuī Dūnlǐ may have drafted the memorial on his elder brother’s behalf.
Tiyao
The Sìkù tíyào: the Gōngjiào jí in 12 juǎn was composed by Cuī Dūnlǐ of the Sòng. Dūnlǐ has the Chúyán, already separately listed. Jiāo Hóng’s Guóshǐ jīngjízhì records Cuī Dūnlǐ jí in 20 juǎn; the běn long lost; other house-catalogs also rarely list it; hence Lì È’s Sòngshī jìshì does not reach Dūnlǐ’s name. Only the Yǒnglè dàdiǎn records the Gōngjiào jí by Dūnlǐ; his shīwén and piānzhì are still rich. Largely gélǜ level-and-correct; cíqì easy-and-clear; though unable to lead-fresh and stand-strange, [it follows] the zhōuguī zhéjǔ (Zhōu’s compass and the Carpenter’s square) — chǐcùn bù yú (inch-not-overstepped) — the prior worthies’ canonical-pattern is here-and-not-yet-fallen — not equal to those-where-no-criticism (zì Kuài yǐ wú jī).
We respectfully gather and order, edited as 12 juǎn. The 5th juǎn contains the piece Jìn chóngshàndìng Lǚ Zǔqiān suǒ biān Wénjiàn zházǐ, saying: deletion-supplementing additionally-rewriting and submitting in display, etc. Examining Lǐ Xīnchuán’s Cháoyě zájì, says: Lǚ Zǔqiān’s Wénjiàn completed; close ministers secretly memorialized its inappropriate; [the court] then commanded the Zhíyuàn Cuī Dàyǎ to re-edit, supplementing-and-cutting, going-and-keeping, several-tens of pieces in all. Dàyǎ is the younger brother [Cuī Dūnshī]‘s zì. Master Zhū’s Yǔlèi once discussed Lǚ Zǔqiān editing-recording the Wénjiàn affair, and also has the language “Cuī Dūnshī cut-and-fixed memorial-and-discussion” — so this zházǐ should come from Dūnshī, not from Dūnlǐ — apparent that the Yǒnglè dàdiǎn mistook the title. But perhaps Dūnshī carved-and-fixed for submission, and Dūnlǐ on his behalf drafted the memorial — also cannot be fixed. We now since we have no clear evidence, follow it as old, and append-record the discrepancies as above. Qiánlóng 46 (1781), 9th month, respectfully collated.
Abstract
Cuī Dūnlǐ — gōngjiào (Crown-Prince’s Tutor) — was the younger of two literary brothers; his elder brother Cuī Dūnshī 崔敦詩 (zì Dàyǎ 大雅) was the more prominent figure, serving as Zhíyuàn (Imperial-Cabinet Drafter) and as the architect of the post-1181 emendation of Lǚ Zǔqiān’s 呂祖謙 Sòng wénjiàn anthology. The Sìkù editors note that the zházǐ on the Wénjiàn emendation — preserved at juǎn 5 of the present collection — should properly be attributed to the elder brother Dūnshī, not the younger Dūnlǐ. The misattribution may be a Yǒnglè dàdiǎn compilation error; alternatively, Dūnlǐ may have drafted the memorial on his elder brother’s behalf.
The collection’s general literary character: “level-and-correct gélǜ; cíqì easy-and-clear” — i.e., conservative and competent senior official-prose, in the post-Wāng Zǎo / Sūn Dí line. CBDB id 10210, death year 1181 (the year of Lǚ Zǔqiān’s death and the Wénjiàn re-editing memorial). The original 20-juǎn recension (per Jiāo Hóng) was lost; the Sìkù editors recovered 12 juǎn from the Yǒnglè dàdiǎn.
The dating bracket: 1163 (a conservative notBefore for Cuī’s mature career) through 1181 (his death year, coinciding with the Wénjiàn re-editing memorial).
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Other points of interest
The Wénjiàn re-editing memorial of 1181 is one of the documented court-orchestrated post-mortem revisions of a major Lǐxué anthology — Lǚ Zǔqiān’s Sòng wénjiàn having been completed by Lǚ at imperial command, then formally revised after his death by the Zhíyuàn Cuī Dàyǎ on the basis of “close-minister secret memorialization” reported by Lǐ Xīnchuán’s Cháoyě zájì. The political dynamics of this revision deserve more scholarly attention than they have received.
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