Jìn Shū 晉書 (Zhū Fèng)
History of the Jin, by Zhu Feng by 朱鳳
About the work
Jìn Shū 晉書 by 朱鳳 is a jíyìběn reconstruction of one of the early Jin histories. Zhū Fèng was a Western Jin historian; very little is known about him beyond the record that he compiled a Jìn Shū that was extant in the early Táng. The surviving fragments are limited to biographical notices on early Jin imperial figures.
Tiyao
No tiyao found in source. This is a jíyìběn reconstruction.
Abstract
The Suí Shū 隋書 bibliography records Zhū Fèng’s Jìn Shū in 10 juǎn (incomplete at the time). The surviving fragments are few and brief: a notice on Emperor Wén 文帝 (Sīmǎ Zhāo 司馬昭), “styled Zǐshàng 子上, second son of Emperor Xuān [Sīmǎ Yì]”; a slightly longer entry on Emperor Yuán 元帝 (Sīmǎ Ruì 司馬叡), recording his ancestry, his tenure as Prince of Lángyá 琅邪, his crossing of the Yangtze during the disorders (yīn luàn guò Jiāng 因亂過江), and his subsequent proclamation as emperor; a definition of the posthumous title Yuán 元 (“establishing a state capital is called Yuán”); and a fragment on Sīmǎ Fú 司馬孚, Prince of Ānpíng 安平, who served as Director of Revenue (Dùzhī Shàngshū 度支尚書) under Emperor Wén of Wèi and controlled all army provisions and accounting.
The fragments survive exclusively through citations in the Shìshuō Xīnyǔ 世說新語 commentary, the Běitáng Shūchāo 北堂書鈔, and the Tàipíng Yùlǎn 太平御覽. The text was lost after the Táng.
Translations and research
No substantial secondary literature located.