Wánzhāi jí 玩齋集
The Wán-zhāi (Studio-of-Trifling-With) Collection by 貢師泰 (撰), edited by 沈性 (編)
About the work
A 10-juǎn + 1 juǎn bǔyí collected works of Gōng Shītài 貢師泰 (1298–1362). The Tiān-shùn-era (1457-64) Níngguóshǒu Shěn Xìng 沈性 of Kuàijī assembled this from earlier fragments: the original Yǒuyū jí 友迂集 (preface by Yú Què 余闕), Wánzhāi jí (preface by Huáng Jìn 黃溍), Dōngxuān jí (preface by Chéng Wén), and Mínnán jí (preface by Lǐ Guófèng) — all combined by his disciples Xiè Sù 謝肅 and Liú Qīn 劉欽 as Wánzhāi jí (no longer extant). The Sìkù tíyào contains an extended biànzhèng against Lǐ Mò’s 李默 Jiā-jìng-era account of Gōng’s late life — the apocryphal Hǎiníng Xiǎotáoyuán / Sòng-Lián-drinking / suicide narrative — on the grounds that Sòng Lián’s leave from court was 1365 yǐsì, but Gōng died 1362 rényín, so the meeting could not have occurred. The collection contains the famous Tí Táo Yuānmíng wǔliǔ tú juéjù — which the Míng Shī biécái jí mis-attributed to the Hóngwǔ / Jiàn-wén-era Yuán Jìngsuǒ; the Sìkù tíyào corrects the attribution back to Gōng Shītài.
Tiyao
Wánzhāi jí, 10 juǎn + 1 juǎn bǔyí. By Gōng Shītài of the Yuán. Shītài zì Tàifǔ, a man of Xuānchéng. By Guózǐshēng passed Zhèjiāng xiāngshì. Appointed Tàihézhōu pànguān. Recommended for yìngfèng Hànlín wénzì. Out as Shàoxīngfǔ tuīguān. Re-entered Hànlín. Moved Xuānwéngé shòujīngláng. Zhìzhèng 14 (1354) promoted Lìbù shìláng. Removed Zhèjiāng dūshuǐ yōngtián shǐ. Soon bài Lǐbù shàngshū. Reassigned Píngjiānglù zǒngguǎn. Zhāng Shìchéng took Wú; [he] fled to the sea. JiāngZhè xíngshěng chéngzhì awarded him cānzhī zhèngshì. Zhìzhèng 20 (1360) reassigned Hùbù shàngshū, ordered to dūhǎiyùn. Zhìzhèng 22 (1362) called Mìshūqīng; died en route. Career fully in Yuánshǐ biography. Míng Jiā-jìng-era Lǐ Mò wrote the bá to this collection — “when at Xuānzhōu, zhūshēng Gōng Ānguó told me — his ancestor Lǐbùgōng liúyù Hǎiníng — zìmíng qí lǐ yuē Xiǎotáoyuán — Yuán mìng yǐ gé — Sòng Xuéshì Jǐnglián once passed there — Gōng wéi zhì jiǔ yǐn — yèfēn nǎi qǐ jiùwò — yǎngyào ér bì.” But Gù Sìlì’s Yuán bǎijiā shī xuǎn — based on his disciple Zhū Hé’s 朱鐩 jìnián lù + Jiē Hóng 揭汯’s mùzhì — records: in Zhìzhèng 16 (1356) zhèngyuè, Zhāng Shìchéng took Píngjiāng; gōng bàoyìn yǐnjū on Wúsōng jiāng — guest at Diàotái shānzhǎng Wú Jǐngwén’s house — adopted Duānmù surname — Lìqìzǐ / Zhōuzhōuwēng. 1362 cǐ yú Hǎiníng yùshè. Evidence proves what Lǐ Mò recorded is wū (false) — wishing to ally with Wáng Zhú’s jié, shū fēi shìshí. Case: Míngshǐ Sòng Lián zhuàn — Lián qǐjiǎ guīxǐng — in Zhìzhèng 25 yǐsì (1365); Shītài died 22 rényín (1362) — qí shí Lián wúyóu zhì Hǎiníng. Also Tàizǔ chēng Wúwáng — in Zhìzhèng 24 jiǎchén (1364); chēng Wú yuánnián — in Zhìzhèng 27 dīngwèi (1367); Shùndì běi qū Shàngdū — in 28 wùshēn (1368) 7-month — shì wéi Hóngwǔ 1. Shītài having already died rényín, was still 6 years before the Yuán fall — why says “Yuán mìng yǐ gé”? — cǐ qí hòurén zhī shìcí — wishing to attach to Wáng Zhú’s jié — shū fēi shìshí. Sìlì doubted it rightly. Shītài’s writings: had Yǒuyū jí — Yú Què prefaced; Wánzhāi jí — Huáng Jìn prefaced; Dōngxuān jí — Chéng Wén prefaced; also Mínnán jí — Lǐ Guófèng prefaced. His disciples Xiè Sù and Liú Qīn classed into one volume — all titled Wánzhāi jí — today not seen. Míng Tiān-shùn-era Níngguóshǒu Kuàijī Shěn Xìng chóng jiā sōují — got 653 shīwén pieces — arranged as 10 juǎn. Plus 1 juǎn bǔyí. Jìnián etc. separately as 1 juǎn appended at end — namely the present version. Shītài běn yǐ zhèngshì chuán — but in youth received his father Kuí’s family-learning; also studied under Wú Chéng 吳澄; later exchanged with Yú Jí and Jiē Xīsī 揭傒斯 — so wénzhāng also has roots. At late-Yuán zúyǐ línglì yīshí — shīgé yóu wéi gāoyǎ — YúYángFànJiē (= the sìdàjiā) zhī hòu — kěwèi tǐngrán wǎnxiù (can be called outstanding late-blooming). The collection’s Tí Táo Yuānmíng wǔliǔ tú juéjù — MíngShī biécái jí thought to be after the Yānwáng usurpation, Jiànwén old-minister Jiāngyòu Yuán Jìngsuǒ — and recorded his běnmò in detail. Now examining Míng Sūn Yuánlǐ’s selected Yuányīn — completed in Hóngwǔ jiǎzǐ (1384) — printed by Zhāng Zhōngdá in Jiànwén xīnsì (1401) — all before xùnguó (yielding the throne) — but [the verse] is recorded — titled as Shītài’s composition — so this is Shītài’s verse — mis-attributed to Jìngsuǒ — not Jìngsuǒ’s verse mis-edited into Shītài’s collection — clearly. Respectfully collated.
Abstract
The Wánzhāi jí preserves the principal monument of a late-Yuán senior bureaucrat whose career spanned Hànlín, Lǐbù, and Hùbù appointments before the Zhāng Shìchéng disruption sent him into adopted-surname exile. The Sìkù tíyào’s detailed biànzhèng against Lǐ Mò’s Jiā-jìng-era Xiǎotáoyuán / suicide narrative is one of the more impressive chronology-based corrections in the tíyào corpus, supported by parallel philological correction of the Wǔliǔ tú attribution. The collection’s wide network — Yú Què, Huáng Jìn, Chéng Wén, Lǐ Guófèng, Xiè Sù, Liú Qīn, Wú Chéng, Yú Jí, Jiē Xīsī — places Gōng at the dense center of late-Yuán literary intellectual life. Composition window: from earliest preserved compositions (c. 1325) to 1362 death.
Translations and research
- Yuán-shǐ j. 187 (Gōng Shī-tài biography).
- Yáng Lián. 2003. Yuán-shī shǐ.
Other points of interest
The adopted Duānmù 端木 surname under late-life exile — and the self-styles 戾契子 Lìqìzǐ and 喌喌翁 Zhōuzhōuwēng — make Gōng a late-Yuán precedent for the Yuán-Míng-transition pseudonym tradition.
Links
- WYG SKQS V1215.11, p509.
- Wikipedia, 貢師泰