Jiàngǔ jīngxuǎn Lù Fàngwēng shījí qiánjí 澗谷精選陸放翁詩集前集
The Jiàn-gǔ Selection of Master Fàng-wēng [Lù Yóu]‘s Poems, Front Collection by 陸游 (撰), 羅椅 (選前集), 劉辰翁 (選後集), 劉景寅 (選別集)
About the work
Jiàngǔ jīngxuǎn Lù Fàngwēng shījí 澗谷精選陸放翁詩集 is the principal late-Sòng / Yuán xuǎnběn (selected anthology) of Lù Yóu’s 陸游 poetry. The work is organized in two halves plus an appendix: the qiánjí 前集 (10 juǎn) was selected by Luó Yǐ 羅椅 (1213–after 1265, zì Zǐyuǎn 子遠, hào Jiàngǔ 澗谷, of Lúlíng 廬陵); the hòují 後集 (8 juǎn) by Liú Chénwēng 劉辰翁 (1232–1297, hào Xūxī 須溪); and the appended biéjí (1 juǎn) by an anonymous Yuán-era editor drawing on Fāng Huí 方回’s Yíngkuí lǜsuǐ 瀛奎律髓. The qiánjí first cut was at Dàdé xīnchǒu (1301) by Luó Yǐ’s grandnephew Luó Jǐng 羅憼, with his self-preface preserved at the head of the SBCK; the late-Míng reprint (Hóngzhì 1493 by Rǎn Xiàolóng 冉孝隆 of Yúháng) is the textual ancestor of the SBCK recension. The KR4d0269 source contains the qiánjí alone; the corresponding WYG full recension (with all three parts) is KR4d0270.
Tiyao
[The KR4d0269 source contains only the SBCK qiánjí with Luó Jǐng’s 1301 self-preface; the standard tíyào is on KR4d0270 (the WYG recension that integrates all three parts) and is translated there. Briefly: the qiánjí was selected by Luó Yǐ during his time as LùLíng education-officer; circulated alongside Liú Chénwēng’s hòují as a single Yuán-era anthology; the biéjí appendix was added by a later anonymous editor drawing material from Fāng Huí. The Yuán bookseller-trade later renamed the parts as qiánjí*/*hòují for reprint.]
Abstract
Jiàngǔ jīngxuǎn Lù Fàngwēng shījí qiánjí is the front half of the principal SòngYuán anthology of Lù Yóu’s poetry — selected by the Lúlíng literatus Luó Yǐ during the Bǎoyòu-Xiánchún period (c. 1256–1265), when Luó was Jiānglíng education-officer. The selection is quándiǎn 圈點 (marked with circles and dots in the manner of Sòng poetry-criticism) but unlike Liú Chénwēng’s hòují contains no evaluative comments. Luó Yǐ’s selection-criteria are not preserved, but the Sìkù editors note that he and Liú Chénwēng were working independently, with their selections later combined and re-titled by Yuán booksellers — a typical pattern of late-imperial xuǎnběn compilation.
The first cut was by Luó Yǐ’s grandnephew Luó Jǐng in Dàdé 5 (1301). Luó Yǐ himself, per Zhōu Mì’s 周密 Qídōng yěyǔ, attached himself to the Dàoxué faction during its ascendancy and abandoned it after its fall — Zhōu Mì records this with strong disapproval. Luó’s lifedates: 1213–after 1265 per CBDB id 41857. Luó Jǐng’s preface (preserved at the head of both KR4d0269 and KR4d0270) speaks of his great-uncle’s yíbiān cánmò (lost-edition, broken ink) — suggesting that the printed qiánjí preserves only a fraction of Luó Yǐ’s original selections.
The dating bracket: 1265 (when Luó Yǐ’s selection was substantially complete — corresponding to the Xiánchún period of late Southern Sòng) through 1301 (Luó Jǐng’s first cut at Dàdé 5).
Translations and research
- See KR4d0270 entry for the standard secondary literature on Lù Yóu and the xuǎn-běn tradition.
- Zhōu Mì, Qí-dōng yě-yǔ (passim) on Luó Yǐ’s political alignment.
Other points of interest
The combined Jiàngǔ–Xūxī anthology was the principal mid-imperial vehicle for Lù Yóu’s poetic reception, and its selection-priorities (preserved in KR4d0270) helped to canonize the parallel-couplet, liángkǒu aspect of Lù’s work that the Sìkù editors of the Jiànnán shīgǎo tíyào (KR4d0267) lamented as a one-sided reception. Reading KR4d0269 and KR4d0270 alongside KR4d0267 gives a useful diagnostic of how xuǎnběn practice can shape — and distort — the reception of a major poet.
Links
- Lu You (Wikipedia)
- See also KR4d0270 (the WYG recension of the full anthology).