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 Ōu-Mǐn (Fújiàn), Wú-Yuè (Jiāng-Zhè), and northward to the Huái-Sì. 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
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- 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.