Jíqítíng shījí 鮚埼亭詩集
The Jí-qí Pavilion Poetry Collection by 全祖望 (撰)
About the work
The collected verse of 全祖望 Quán Zǔwàng (1705–1755) — companion poetic volume to the Jíqítíng jí KR4f0054 (38 juan of prose). 10 juan, organized not chronologically but by jí (poem-cycle), the cycles arranged in approximate compositional order, with multiple cycles per juan in the early portion. The cycles span Quán’s mature life from his early Yōngzhèng-era jǔyè (examination-preparation) years through his final years at the Jíshān 蕺山 academy: Xiángqín jí 祥琴集 and Jùyú chànghé jí 句餘唱和集 (juan 1); Qiúgǔ jí 虬骨集 and Miǎoqiū jiāngxíng jí 杪秋江行集 (juan 2); the Qīfēng cǎotáng chànghé jí 七峯草堂唱和集 (juan 3, exchange-poetry with the Níngbō coterie); the Wúchuán jí 吳船集 (juan 5, on his Sūzhōu travel); the Hánjiāng chànghé 韓江唱和 series (juan 5, on his Yángzhōu visit); the Tōuér qìyú jí 偸兒棄餘集 (juan 6, “Pieces the Thief Discarded” — Quán’s own joking title for poems salvaged after a theft); the Mǎnxìng 漫興 cycles (juan 7); the Cǎijíqí jí 采蕺齊集 and Wàngsuì jí 望歲集 (juan 8, on his Jíshān years); the Shuāngjiǔshānfáng xiàkè 雙韮山房夏課 and Tiējīng yúshì jí 帖經餘事集 (juan 9, on his teaching at the Shuāngjiǔshān studio); and the Dùlǐng jí 度嶺集 (juan 10, on his Lǐngnán years heading the Duānxī 端溪 academy in Zhàoqìng).
Prefaces
The SBCK reproduces the 1804 Dǒng Bǐngchún recension; the shījí shares its editorial provenance with the wénjí and is prefaced via the Quánshì shìpǔ and Niánpǔ in the jí volume. The shījí volume itself opens directly with the mùlù (table of cycle-titles) without an independent preface.
Abstract
Quán’s poetry is conventionally described as falling at the Wáng Yúyáng 王漁洋 / Shén yùn 神韻 end of the Qiánlóng shī spectrum — formally restrained, citation-laden, historiographically self-aware — but with a distinctive Zhèdōng inflection: many of the poems are explicit historical-poetic responses to Míng-loyalist sites, late-Míng jìrén (martyred persons), and SòngYuán intellectual lineages. The Wúchuán jí records Quán’s 1734 Sūzhōu visit to scholars in the 惠周惕 惠氏 circle and to bibliophile collections; the Hánjiāng chànghé records his Yángzhōu encounters with the Mǎ 馬-brother salon and with 厲鶚 Lì È; the Cǎijíqí jí draws its title from the jícǎi (gathering shepherd’s-purse, used as a vegetable) at Mount Jí 蕺 — a chrematonym tying Quán to the seventeenth-century Jíshān master 劉宗周 Liú Zōngzhōu (1578–1645), the Míng-loyalist Confucian whose Zhèdōng lineage Quán inherited through Huáng Zōngxī.
Composition window: c. 1730 (Quán’s earliest dated poems from his late twenties) through 1755. The cycles overlap with the wénjí’s bēimíng and zhuàn in subject matter — many bēimíng for late-Míng martyrs have corresponding poetic huáigǔ 懷古 in the shījí. Like the wénjí, the shījí was not admitted to the Sìkù and circulated in manuscript / partial print until Dǒng’s 1804 imprint. The SBCK is the standard pre-modern recension.
Translations and research
See the secondary literature listed for KR4f0054; Cài Méi-bīāo et al.’s Quán Zǔ-wàng jí huì-jiào jí-zhù (2000) covers both prose and poetry.
Jiǎng Yīn 蔣寅, Wáng Yú-yáng yǔ Kāng-xī shī-tán 王漁洋與康熙詩壇 (Beijing: Zhongguo Shehui Kexue, 2001) — situates the early-Qing Shén yùn poetic line of which Quán is a Qiánlóng-era continuator.
ECCP 203–205 (Tu Lien-che); Wilkinson 2018, §28.5 (Qīng poetry).
Other points of interest
The Tōuér qìyú jí 偸兒棄餘集 (“Pieces the Thief Discarded”) is a remarkable bibliographic curiosity: Quán recovered the manuscripts of these poems from a thief who had stolen his luggage but discarded what he could not pawn. The title preserves a moment of self-deprecation rare in eighteenth-century biéjí — a corner of the collection where Quán steps outside historiographical earnestness.
Links
- Wikidata Q11147870 (Quan Zuwang)
- ECCP 203–205
- Wilkinson 2018, §28.5, §53.2, §66
- CBDB id 30192