Zǐyuān shījí 子淵詩集
The Zǐ-yuān (Courtesy-name) Poetry Collection by 張仲深 (撰)
About the work
A 6-juǎn Sìkùguǎn-reconstructed poetic collection. The author’s name was for long unknown because of catalog entries simply reading “Yuánrén”; the Sìkù tíyào identifies him as Zhāng Zhòngshēn 張仲深 (zì Zǐyuān) of Qìngyuánlù (Yínxiàn / Míngzhōu) by internal cross-referencing — primarily Nàyán 納延’s exchange-poem Huái Míngzhōu Zhāng Zǐyuān + the Suìjìn shī line “zhào wǒ xiāngguān mèng — xiāngsuí dào Màochéng” (Màochéng = old Yín). Most of the poetry is exchange-correspondence with Nàyán, Yáng Wéizhēn, Zhāng Yǔ, Wēi Sù, Yuán Huá, Zhōu Huànwén, Hán Xìng, Wū Běnliáng / Sīdào — particularly thick with Nàyán. The Sìkù tíyào’s detailed reconstruction by genre is a model of the Yǒnglè dàdiǎn-recovery practice.
Tiyao
Zǐyuān shījí. — Case: Zǐyuān shījí, scattered in the Yǒnglè dàdiǎn. Only titled “Yuánrén.” The Wényuāngé shūmù also records it but also does not give the author’s name. We now check the collection’s Suìjìn shī: “zhào wǒ xiāngguān mèng — xiāngsuí dào Màochéng”; the old town of Mào is in Yínxiàn east — Táng-era divided Mào and placed Yín, Cí, Fèng, Zhèn 4 yì — under Míngzhōu; in Yuán the Qìngyuánlù. Nàyán’s Jīntái jí has Huái Míngzhōu Zhāng Zǐyuān qīlǜ 1 piece, plus Yīyùn fèngdá Zǐyuān qīlǜ 2 pieces. The exchange-correspondence is in the collection, the rhymes match — so [the author] must be a Qìngyuánlù man. Also the Tiěfǔ zhōng lián shī — title-side self-note giving the contemporary writers, including the words “Mèi Zhòngshēn” — so his name must be Zhòngshēn. Also Huái xiōng Zǐyì zài Héngpǔ shī — with his elder brother’s zì deduced — Zǐyuān must be his zì. The collection has been long not transmitted; now divided by genre and re-edited — 6 juǎn shī. Most are with Nàyán, Yáng Wéizhēn, Zhāng Yǔ, Wēi Sù, Yuán Huá, Zhōu Huànwén, Hán Xìng, Wū Běnliáng / Sīdào brothers’ exchange-poems, and Nàyán especially dense. Gǔshī chōngdàn — has TáoWéi (Táo Yuānmíng / Wéi Yìngwù) fēnggé. Lǜshī though pō shè Jiānghú mòpài — géyì wèi gāo — but wǔyán like “xiǎoshì yúxiā jí — qiūtián sǔnjué duō — yìlù suí jiāng jìn — húyún lèi hǎi kuān — dì tōng jiāngzhàn kuò — tiān rù hǎimén dī — míngyuè gūchéng tuò — qiūfēng ruòkè xīn — kū huán qíng sì xuě — dúhè yè rú rén”; qīyán like “*jiāngcūn yè jiǒng fù jīngǔ — chíguǎn qiū shēn lǎojìhé — mǎnmiàn yánchén yī kè mào — yīchuān lísī shǔ héhuā — jiātóng xièshì gù xiéjiǔ — yěniǎo bìrén dī dù qiáng — běifēng chuī shā gōnglì jìn — luòrì zhào hǎi jīngqí hán — línhuāng fániàng chá wéi jiǔ — yúshú nánshē mǐ dāng qián — xījiāng fǎnzhào lián hóngyǐng — Nánzhèn cánshān rù yànháng” — all chǔchǔ yǒuzhì (graceful and attractive). His being held in regard by the era’s míngbèi also has cause. Respectfully collated.
Abstract
A model case of Sìkùguǎn philological recovery: a Yǒnglè dàdiǎn-scattered collection whose author was identified by kǎozhèng from internal evidence (place-name, brother’s zì, exchange-poetry small-notes). Zhāng Zhòngshēn’s poetic-network (Nàyán, Yáng Wéizhēn, Zhāng Yǔ, Wēi Sù) places him in the late-Yuán Wúzhōng / Sōngjiāng circle. The stylistic line — TáoWéi gǔshī + minor Jiānghúpài in lǜshī with chǔchǔ moments — is unusually well-captured by the Sìkù tíyào’s extensive line-by-line quotations. Composition window: from earliest preserved compositions (c. 1330) through the Nà-yán-exchange period (c. 1345-55).
Translations and research
- Yáng Lián. 2003. Yuán-shī shǐ.
Other points of interest
The author-identification through internal cross-referencing is one of the more impressive kǎozhèng exercises preserved in the Sìkù tíyào corpus.
Links
- WYG SKQS V1215.6, p307.