Yǒng’ān Qǐjūzhù 永安起居注
Court Diary of the Yong’an Era anonymous
About the work
Yǒng’ān Qǐjūzhù 永安起居注 (also titled Jìn Yǒng’ān Qǐjūzhù 晉永安起居注) is a jíyìběn reconstruction of the court diary from the short-lived Yǒng’ān 永安 reign era of the Western Jin (304 CE). Only one fragment survives, with a reconstructed note appended.
Tiyao
No tiyao found in source. This is a jíyìběn reconstruction.
Abstract
The sole surviving fragment records that in the 4th year of the Tàikāng 太康 era (283 CE, not 304 as the title would suggest), the state of Shànshàn 鄯善 (a Central Asian oasis kingdom on the southern Silk Road) sent its prince Yuányīng 元英 to serve as a hostage at the Jin court; he was appointed Commandant of Cavalry and granted a seal and purple-blue silk sash. An editorial note observes that the Yǒng’ān era name was changed from Yǒngxīng 永興 in the 11th month of 304 CE (Emperor Huì’s reign), and suggests that the fragment’s reference to Tàikāng year 4 — some twenty years earlier — may represent a different textual layer or a misidentification. The fragment was preserved in the Chūxué Jì 初學記.
Translations and research
No substantial secondary literature located.