Shípíng shījí 石屏詩集
The Stone-Screen Poetry Collection by 戴復古 (撰)
About the work
Shípíng shījí 石屏詩集 in 6 juǎn is the principal poetry-collection of Dài Fùgǔ 戴復古 (1167?–1248?, zì Shìzhī 式之, hào Shípíng 石屏), of Huángyán 黃巖 in Tāizhōu 台州 (modern Zhèjiāng). A pupil of Lù Yóu 陸游 in the Jiānghúpài 江湖派 lineage; never held office; an itinerant poet who roamed ŌuMǐn (Fújiàn), WúYuè (JiāngZhè), and northward to the HuáiSì. The Yuán Zhìzhèng wùxū (1358) preface by Gòng Shītài 貢師泰 (preserved at the head of the SBCK) and the Shàodìng-era prefaces by Lóu Yuè 樓鑰 and Wú Zǐliáng 吳子良 (lost in transmission, mentioned in Gòng’s preface) establish the principal recensions. The Míng Hóngzhì re-cut by Dài Háo 戴豪 (Dài’s descendant, Cānzhèng of Guǎngdōng) was the textual ancestor of the Sìkù WYG.
Tiyao
[The KR4d0278 source file is the SBCK recension, principal prefatory matter Gòng Shītài 1358 preface and a re-cut Hóngzhì-era preface. The Sìkù tíyào (j. 159) characterizes Dài as a Jiānghúpài poet who deliberately modeled himself on Dù Fǔ — a position Gòng Shītài’s 1358 preface emphatically endorses, claiming Dài alone among Sòng poets entered the shíshèng (poet-sage = Dù Fǔ)‘s chamber. The Sìkù editors are more reserved, ranking Dài as the leader of the Jiānghú school but noting the school’s tendency toward thin parallel-couplet construction.]
Abstract
Shípíng shījí is the canonical text of the late-Southern-Sòng Jiānghúpài 江湖派, the loose poetic association centered on Línān booksellers (the Jiānghú jí 江湖集 anthologies of Chén Qǐ 陳起) that aimed to make poetry accessible to a broader literate readership. Dài Fùgǔ was the senior figure of this group and its principal authorial-presence: his itinerant career — without ever holding office, unusual for a senior Sòng literary figure — gave him the geographical range visible in the poetry, and his deliberate modeling on Dù Fǔ (against the Jiāngxīpài tendency to model on Huáng Tíngjiān) made him the principal late-Sòng exponent of Dùtǐ poetry.
The collection’s transmission: first cut in Shàodìng (1228–1233) at Lóu Yuè’s and Wú Zǐliáng’s sponsorship; reprinted at Hóngzhì (1488–1505) by Dài Háo (Dài Fùgǔ’s descendant); the SBCK descends from a Yuán Zhìzhèng (1358) Gòng Shītài cut intermediate to these two Míng cuts. Dài Fùgǔ’s lifedates are uncertain — CBDB has no birth-or-death year — but internal evidence (the late poems mention 80-plus age) suggests c. 1167 to c. 1248. The dating bracket: 1207 (Dài’s earliest dateable composition, around the time he became Lù Yóu’s pupil) through 1248 (his approximate death year — the Shàodìng preface of 1228–1233 is a terminus post quem for Dài being still active).
Translations and research
- 吳茂雲. 1986. 《戴復古傳略》. Hangzhou: Zhejiang Renmin. Standard biographical study.
- Lo, Irving Yucheng, ed. 1986. Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry. Indiana. Includes Dài translations.
- No substantial Western-language monograph located.
Other points of interest
The Jiānghúpài is one of the principal late-Southern-Sòng poetic movements and a useful counterpoint to the orthodox Jiāngxīpài / Yáng Wànlǐ / Lù Yóu canon. Dài Fùgǔ’s refusal to hold office, while remaining respected in literary circles, makes him a notable case of Sòng yǐnyì (eremitic) literary identity.