Jújiàn jí 菊磵集
The Júj-iàn Collection by 高翥 (撰), 高士奇 (輯編)
About the work
Jújiàn jí 菊磵集 in 1 juǎn with appendix Línhú yígǎo 林湖遺稿 (poems of Gāo Péngfēi 高鵬飛, Gāo Zhù’s nephew) is the Sìkù-recovered biéjí of Gāo Zhù 高翥 (1170–1241, zì Jiǔwàn 九萬, hào Jújiàn 菊磵, of Yúyáo 餘姚 in Yuèzhōu, modern Zhèjiāng). An itinerant Sòng poet of the Jiānghúpài circle who never held office, lectured privately at his Xìntiāncháo 信天巢 dwelling, and wandered the Qiántáng–Jīnlíng–Dòngtíng–Pénglǐ circuit. Original 20-juǎn collection long lost; the present recension was reconstructed in Kāngxī 26 (1687) by Gāo’s descendant Gāo Shìqí 高士奇 (the famous Qīng court bibliophile) from poems collected at Xú Qiánxué’s 徐乾學 Sòng-impressions, augmented with home-stored items and 47 poems from Zhū Yízūn’s Sòng-cut Jiānghú jí. Yáo Suì’s 姚燧 Yuánzhēn 1 (1295) preface (preserved at the head) identifies the collection as Jújiàn jí; Gāo Shìqí’s reprint retitled it Xìntiāncháo yígǎo.
Tiyao
[The standard tíyào, here translated:] The Jújiàn jí in 1 juǎn was composed by Gāo Zhù of the Sòng. Zhù’s zì was Jiǔwàn, hào Jújiàn, a man of Yúyáo. Xiàozōng’s era’s yóushì (itinerant scholar). Has Jújiàn jí in 20 juǎn, long lost. To our state’s Kāngxī 26th year (1687) [his] descendant Shìqí from Xú Qiánxué’s Sòng-cut books gathered surviving shī of 109 pieces; combined with home-stored 32 [pieces]; further from other collections obtained 13 [pieces]; further obtained from Zhū Yízūn’s Sòng-cut Jiānghú jí recorded 47 pieces; deleting duplicates, in all obtaining 189 pieces — cut [as] entitled Xìntiāncháo yígǎo. Xìntiāncháo is the name of Zhù’s residence-room. Yet juǎn-head’s Yuánzhēn 1st-year (1295) Yáo Suì preface still calls it Jújiàn jí — unknown why the name was changed. Appended at back is Línhú yígǎo — composed by Zhù’s nephew Péngfēi zì Nánzhòng. Jiāngcūn yígǎo — then Zhù’s father Xuǎn and his uncle Mài’s shī. Xuǎn and Mài both Shàoxīng-era jìnshì; Xuǎn officed as Wǔdāngjūn jiétuī, Mài officed as xiànwèi. This juǎn further appends Zhìzhāi and Dùnwēng — two persons’ shī — then in the Gāo-clan genealogy what is recorded — only their hào preserved; even Shìqí cannot raise their names. Lastly appended is Gāo Sìsūn’s Shūliáo xiǎojí — Sìsūn is the composer of the Wěilüè — Wénxiàn tōngkǎo records Shūliáo jí in 3 juǎn — this cut is rather little — there are still other anthologies’ [items] — but this cut not included. His collection in late Sòng is rather acclaimed — Chén Zhènsūn says his composing prose [is] guàisè, [his] poetry still can be viewed; Liú Kèzhuāng says his shī can comprehend Chéngzhāi huójù [active phrases]; unknown why this cut’s selection-collection is conversely incomplete. Yet Shìqí’s later-preface initially does not mention appending [the] Shūliáo jí; suspect [this] further is [what was] added by Shìqí’s descendant — having no time for broad-search? Qiánlóng 44 (1779), 3rd month, respectfully collated.
Abstract
Jújiàn jí preserves the surviving fraction (~190 of an original 20-juǎn collection) of Gāo Zhù’s poetry, recovered through a multi-source process in late-17th-c. Qīng by the famous court-collector Gāo Shìqí (Gāo Zhù’s descendant). The textual genealogy is unusually well-documented: Yáo Suì’s 1295 preface attests to the original Yuán-cut; Chén Zhènsūn (mid-13th c.) and Liú Kèzhuāng (early 13th c.) both noticed Gāo’s poetry favorably in their Shūlù jiětí and Hòucūn jí respectively. Gāo Shìqí’s appendices include poems by Gāo Zhù’s nephew Gāo Péngfēi 高鵬飛 (Línhú yígǎo), his father Gāo Xuǎn 高選 and uncle Gāo Mài 高邁 (Jiāngcūn yígǎo), two unidentified family members (Zhìzhāi and Dùnwēng), and the late-Sòng polymath Gāo Sìsūn 高似孫 (the Wěilüè author, Shūliáo xiǎojí).
The dating bracket: 1175 (Gāo Zhù’s earliest dateable composition) through 1241 (the year of his death — per Yáo Suì’s preface, he died at the Géling tánjiāshān lodging at age 72 suì, so 1170–1241 is the standard bracket). The poetry’s Chéngzhāitǐ affinity (Liú Kèzhuāng) places Gāo within the late-12th-c. Yáng Wànlǐ–influenced sub-tradition.
Translations and research
- No substantial Western-language secondary literature located.
- 顧崇煦 (with Gāo Shì-qí). Edition of Xìn-tiān-cháo yí-gǎo. Standard edition.
Other points of interest
The transmission via Gāo Shìqí (1645–1703), one of the most important early-Qīng court-collectors and the Kāngxī-period imperial book-collector, is one of the cleaner cases of Qīng-era recovery of Sòng biéjí. Gāo Shìqí’s network — Xú Qiánxué’s Sòng impressions, Zhū Yízūn’s Pùshūtíng collection — provided a dense web of textual sources that no earlier compiler could have accessed.