Xiāngshān Yělù 湘山野錄
Wild Records from Xiang Mountain by 釋文瑩
About the work
An alternative-source edition of the three-juàn Northern Song anecdote collection by the literatus-monk 釋文瑩 Shì Wényíng 釋文瑩 (zì Dàowēn 道溫; CBDB id 34797), composed during the Xīníng era (1068–1077). The Sìkù quánshū (WYG) edition of the same text is cataloged at KR3l0045, which carries a full tǐyào and abstract. The present file (KR4k0035) represents the krp-titles source-text edition.
The work consists of approximately sixty anecdote entries in three juàn (plus a xùlù 續錄 supplement in some recensions), recording Northern Song court life, literary anecdotes, and miscellaneous observations. The most celebrated entry — in the xùlù — describes the Tàizōng 太宗 accession (the “chú-shǔ tóng” 燭斧聲 candle-and-axe anecdote), which has generated a millennium of scholarly debate about the legitimacy of Tàizōng’s succession to his brother Tàizǔ 太祖.
Tiyao
No tiyao found in source. (Full tǐyào at KR3l0045.)
Abstract
The Xiāngshān Yělù 湘山野錄 is among the most important Northern Song bǐjì 筆記. Its author 釋文瑩 Shì Wényíng resided at the Jīnluánsì 金鑾寺 monastery in Jīngzhōu 荊州 beside the Xiāng River, whence the title. He drew on formal documentary sources — shéndàobēi 神道碑, mùzhìmíng 墓誌銘, xíngzhuàng 行狀, shílù 實錄, zòuyì 奏議 — as well as oral tradition to record events from the founding of the Song through the Xīníng era (1068–1077). The companion work Yùhú Yěshǐ 玉壺野史, also by Wényíng, is cataloged at KR3l0046.
For full bibliographic details, tǐyào translation, and secondary literature, see KR3l0045.
Translations and research
- Kinugawa Tsuyoshi 衣川強. 1980. 湘山野錄の考証. Tōhō gakuhō 52: 325–360. Source criticism and reliability assessment.
- See KR3l0045 for full secondary literature.
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