Xìngtíng zhāigǎo 杏庭摘槀
The Apricot-Pavilion Selected Drafts by 洪焱祖 (撰)
About the work
A 1-juǎn selected poetic gǎo of Hóng Yànzǔ 洪焱祖 (b. 1267; Wēi Sù’s preface attests him aged 62 in Tiānlì 1 = 1328, hence b. 1267 — CBDB gives b. 1262 — slight discrepancy). Zì Qiánfū 潛夫. Native of Xīxiàn 歙縣 (Huīzhōu). The title comes from his zìhào “Xìngtíng,” after the great yínxìng (gingko) tree at his residence. Career: 26 — Píngjiāng lù rúxué lù (probably his earliest documented post c. 1292) → Fúliángzhōu Chángxiāng shūyuàn shānzhǎng → Shàoxīnglù rúxué zhèng → Qúzhōulù rúxué jiàoshòu → Chǔzhōulù Suìchāng xiàn zhǔbù → retired Tiānlì 1 (1328) at 62. The Sìkù notes that the Huīzhōulù Xiūníng xiànyǐn style given by Wēi Sù’s preface and Sòng Lián’s preface is the standard Yuán jìnyīguān shǐ guī (promote-one-rank-on-retirement) protocol, not an actually-held post. Hóng is best known not for this collection but for the Luó Yuàn Ěryǎyì yīnshì (auxiliary text appended to Luó’s Ěryǎ yì) and the Xù Xīnān zhì 10 juǎn (continuation of Luó Yuàn’s Xīnān zhì).
Tiyao
Xìngtíng zhāigǎo, 1 juǎn. By Hóng Yànzǔ of the Yuán. Yànzǔ’s zì Qiánfū, a man of Xīxiàn. At the head of the collection is a Wēi Sù preface; it says Yànzǔ was Huīzhōulù Xiūníng xiànyǐn, retired — and gives his career as: “at 26, Píngjiānglù rúxué lù; Fúliángzhōu Chángxiāng shūyuàn shānzhǎng; Shàoxīnglù rúxué zhèng; transferred Qúzhōulù rúxué jiàoshòu; zhuó Chǔzhōulù Suìchāng xiàn zhǔbù; in Tiānlì 1 at age 62, retired.” But does not say he served as xiànyǐn. Now per Sòng Lián’s preface “From rúguān qǐjiā; four times transferred and became Suìchāng zhǔbù; so retired as Xiūníng xiànyǐn” — this is following the Sòng protocol of jìnyīguān shǐ guī: those retired all advance one rank as they go — actually he never held the post. Yànzǔ also composed an yīnshì on Luó Yuàn’s Ěryǎ yì, to date appended to Luó’s book; and a Xù Xīnān zhì 10 juǎn, continuing Luó Yuàn’s Xīnān zhì. So a bóqià zhī shì. This collection was edited by his son Pǔjiāng wèi Zài 在. His residence had a great yínxìng tree of bǎiwéi circumference; he styled himself Xìngtíng — hence the title. The poems are arranged by gǔtǐ and jìntǐ; but under wǔyán lǜ it notes “chánglǜ fù” — does not follow Gāo Bǐng’s term “páilǜ”; under qīyán lǜ it notes “ǎolǜ fù” — also a Sòng-era old name — so still the original recension, not yet mangled by Míng hands. The verse stays purely in the Sòng manner — but still has the Shíhú Jiànnán fēnggé. Compared head-on with YúYángFànJiē, not enough; against the Sòng-late Jiānghú school, however, chántuì yú nízǐ zhī zhōng yǐ. Respectfully collated.
Abstract
The Xìngtíng zhāigǎo preserves the only direct poetic record of Hóng Yànzǔ, a Huīzhōu literatus better known as the philological zhùjiā of Luó Yuàn’s Ěryǎ yì and the continuer of his Xīnān zhì. The Sìkù tíyào observes that the collection’s terminology — chánglǜ fù (Sòng usage) rather than páilǜ (Gāo Bǐng / Míng usage) — confirms an untouched-by-Míng-editors transmission. Hóng’s stylistic line is identified as Fàn Chéngdà 范成大 (Shíhú) / Lù Yóu 陸游 (Jiànnán) — the late-Southern-Sòng tiányuán and jiāshān tradition — a stylistic survival into mid-Yuán. Composition window: from Hóng’s earliest preserved compositions (post-c. 1290) to retirement in 1328.
Translations and research
- Yáng Lián. 2003. Yuán-shī shǐ.
- See Luó Yuàn 羅願, Ěr-yǎ yì, with Hóng Yàn-zǔ’s yīn-shì.
Links
- WYG SKQS V1212.6, p665.