Jí Zhǒng Shū Chāo 汲冢書鈔
Extracts from the Jizhong Documents attributed to 束皙
About the work
Jí Zhǒng Shū Chāo 汲冢書鈔 is a jíyìběn compilation of fragments from the Jízhǒng 汲冢 (Ji County tomb) bamboo-slip manuscripts, discovered in 281 CE (Tàikāng 太康 2) when a tomb robber broke into a Warring States-period royal tomb in Jí Prefecture 汲郡. The original texts were transcribed and studied by Xún Xù 荀勖, Shù Xī 束皙, and other Western Jin scholars. This jíyìběn preserves scattered quotations and variant readings from those lost texts.
Tiyao
No tiyao found in source. This is a jíyìběn reconstruction.
Abstract
The Jizhong discovery was one of the most important archaeological finds of premodern China, yielding several lost pre-Qín texts including the Zhúshū Jìnián 竹書紀年 (Bamboo Annals), the Yìjīng 易經 in a variant version, the Guóyǔ 國語, the Mù Tiānzǐ Zhuàn 穆天子傳, and the Suǒyǔ 瑣語. The present jíyìběn opens with the description of the discovery from the Jìn Shū biography of Shù Xī, then compiles variant readings attributed to the Jizhong texts: the Bamboo Annals’ accounts of Xià and Yīn (including the claim that Yì 益 seized Qǐ’s throne, and that Tài Jiǎ 太甲 killed Yī Yǐn 伊尹, which differ from received tradition), and fragments of the other recovered texts. Citations are drawn from Shǐjì Zhèngyì 史記正義, Shuǐjīng Zhù 水經注, Lù Shǐ 路史, and other Táng-Sòng sources that preserved variant readings attributed to the “Jizhong texts” before they were lost again.
The original Jizhong manuscripts themselves were mostly lost after the Táng period, leaving only fragments; this jíyìběn represents a late Qīng attempt to collect the passages that had been cited with a Jizhong attribution.
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