Chéng Bóyú 成伯璵
Mid-Táng Shī 詩 scholar, native place and dates unrecoverable. The Sìkù editors candidly note that “title, native place, and dates have no source.” Conventional placement is the late eighth or early ninth century, on the basis of his reference to the standard Táng-imperial Máoshī zhèngyì (after 653) and his being cited as a definite predecessor by Sòng Shī commentators (e.g. Wáng Yīnglín, Zhū Xī).
Author of two works listed in the Chóngwén zǒngmù 崇文總目: Máoshī zhǐshuō 毛詩指說 in 1 juǎn (KR1c0007) and Máoshī duànzhāng 毛詩斷章 in 2 juǎn (lost; an extracts-and-categorization work modelled on the “broken-chapter citation” practice of Chūnqiū hermeneutics). The Zhǐshuō is the earliest surviving treatise to articulate the position — later canonized in the Sòng by Ōuyáng Xiū and Zhū Xī, and again in the Qīng by Gù Zhèn — that the Máo xù 毛序 is a layered text in which only the first sentence of each preface descends from a pre-Hàn teacher (Chéng attributes it to Zǐxià 子夏) and the rest is a later Hàn-period accretion by Máo Cháng. The fourth chapter of the Zhǐshuō — a structural-rhetorical analysis of the Shī in the manner of Liú Xié 劉勰’s Wénxīn diāolóng 文心雕龍 — is the small but distinctive Táng contribution to Shī genre-criticism.
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