Wǔfēng jí 五峰集
The Wǔ-fēng (Five-Peaks) Collection by 李孝光 (撰)
About the work
The collected works of Lǐ Xiàoguāng 李孝光 (1296–1348), zì Jìhé 季和, hào Wǔfēng 五峰 (whence the title). Native of Lèqīng (Wēnzhōu); yǐnjū recluse-scholar. The Sìkù tíyào restructures the original bù fēn juǎnzhì collection into 6 thematic-classified juǎn: 1 juǎn yuèfǔ + sìyán shī | 1 juǎn wǔ-/qīyán gǔshī | 1 juǎn wǔyán lǜ | 1 juǎn qīyán lǜ | 1 juǎn juéjù | 1 juǎn záwén. Yáng Wéizhēn in his Chén Qiáo jí xù groups Lǐ with Yáo Suì, Wú Chéng, and Yú Jí as the “Yuándài zuòzhě sì rén” (Four Authors of the Yuán Era). The Hóngzhì jiǎzǐ (1504) Qián Gǎo / Zhōu Lún recovery-edition is the textual basis.
Tiyao
Wǔfēng jí, 6 juǎn. By Lǐ Xiàoguāng of the Yuán. Xiàoguāng zì Jìhé, a man of Lèqīng. Lived as recluse and taught at Báiyě. Tàibùhuá (Yuán; Qiánlóng = Tàihābùhā; here corrected) once studied under him. Zhìzhèng 7 (1347) by imperial summons of yǐnshì called as Mìshūjiàn zhùzuòláng. The following year shēng Wénlínláng Mìshūjiàn chéng. His shīwén by years long sànyì (scattered and lost). The present is Hóngzhì jiǎzǐ (1504) the Lèqīnglìng Huáihuán Qián Gǎo, fǎngqiú yígǎo; obtained complete collection from Confucian scholar Zhōu Lún; instructing Lún to edit and print. Gǎo himself prefaced. Retained the Wǔfēng jí title. The shīwén bùfēn juǎnzhì — only divided by genre. We have now fixed it: 1 juǎn yuèfǔ sìyán shī | 1 juǎn wǔqīyán gǔshī | 1 juǎn wǔyán lǜ | 1 juǎn qīyán lǜ | 1 juǎn juéjù | 1 juǎn záwén. Juǎn-head separately lists yìwén mù — 4 pieces: Náncūn cǎotáng jì, Guō Yì qiānshànzhāi jì, Yáo Wénhuàn shūshēngzhāi jì, Xiàoshànfāng jì — all yǒu lù wú shū — must be re-lost in transmission — we leave them out. Yuán-period verse: many qímí; only Xiàoguāng has fēnggǔ qiúshàng; force striving to páitū (push aside) the ancients. Yuèfǔ gǔtǐ all kèyì fènlì (forcefully struggling); does not produce mediocre tone. Jìntǐ wǔyán shūxiù yǒu Tángdiào; qīyán pō chūrù Jiāngxī pài zhōng; but jùnwěi zhī qì zì bùkě è. Cases like Zèng Pān Jiǔxiá juéjù — “dàoshì zìchēng Pān Jiǔxiá — shēn qí huánghè dà rú chē — jiè wǒ běichuāng mián yī yè — jiǔxǐng gòng chī báidānshā” — shī zhī yú cūguǎng — also occasional — but not harming his fēnggé. Záwén total 20 pieces — all jiǎojiǎo wú fányǔ. Yáng Wéizhēn making preface to Chén Qiáo’s collection — listing Yuán-era authors as four men — pairs Xiàoguāng with Yáo Suì, Wú Chéng, and Yú Jí — also not in vain. End appended Tí Zhū Zémín huà one piece — should be a gǔ yuèfǔ end-piece — mistakenly edited into wénjí — we now move it back to the yuèfǔ end. Respectfully collated.
Abstract
Wǔfēng jí preserves the principal monument of one of the late-Yuán’s most distinctive gǔtǐ poets. The YángWéizhēn evaluation (“one of the Four Yuán Authors”) is the standard judgment. Lǐ’s stylistic profile — fēnggǔ qiúshàng heroic gravitas in yuèfǔ gǔtǐ, Tángdiào shūxiù in wǔyán, Jiāngxīpài chūrù in qīyán — represents an unusually synthetic late-Yuán poetic voice. The textual recovery story (Qián Gǎo / Zhōu Lún 1504) and the Sìkùguǎn’s further classification work make this another instance of Sìkù-era editorial reconstruction. Composition window: from earliest preserved compositions (post-1320) to 1348 death.
Translations and research
- Yuán-shǐ (Lǐ Xiào-guāng material; no separate biography).
- Yáng Lián. 2003. Yuán-shī shǐ.
Links
- WYG SKQS V1215.2, p91.
- Wikipedia, 李孝光