Liú Jǐn 劉瑾
Zì Gōngjǐn 公瑾. Native of Ānfú 安福 (modern Jiāngxī). Yuán-period Zhū-Xī-school Shī scholar. Lifedates not recoverable.
(The catalog meta gives “d. 1510,” which is impossible for a Yuán-dynasty figure cited by Hú Guǎng’s Shījīng dàquán in 1415; the meta entry has confused this Liú Jǐn with the Míng eunuch Liú Jǐn (d. 1510). The work KR1c0028 Shī zhuàn tōngshì and the late-Yuán Zhū-Xī-school context place him in the early-to-mid fourteenth century.)
Author of Shī zhuàn tōngshì 詩傳通釋 in 20 juǎn (KR1c0028) — the principal source-base for Hú Guǎng’s Yǒnglè imperial Shījīng dàquán (1415) and therefore the dominant YuánMíng intermediary between Zhū Xī’s Jí zhuàn and the Míng examination curriculum. The Sìkù editors describe his learning as descended from Zhū Xī, his project as making the Jí zhuàn manifest — the same goal as Fǔ Guǎng’s Shī tóngzǐ wèn (KR1c0021) but with an addition: Liú Jǐn also adjudicates gùshí 故實 (textual parallels and historical referents), so his book is more kǎozhèng in style than Fǔ Guǎng’s purely doctrinal one. Chén Qǐyuán’s Máoshī jīgǔ biān attacks both writers but spends more pages on Liú Jǐn precisely because the kǎozhèng errors — and Liú Jǐn has many — are more catchable.
name: 劉瑾 pinyinName: Liú Jǐn alternateNames: [永齋, Yǒngzhāi] dynasty: 明 birthDate: deathDate: cbdbId: dilaAuthorityId: created: 2026-05-12 updated: 2026-05-12
Liú Jǐn 劉瑾 (zì Yǒngzhāi 永齋, fl. early 15th c., 明), early-Míng acupuncturist of Yúnjiān 雲間 (Sōngjiāng 松江, modern Shànghǎi). Disciple of Chén Huì 陳會 (KR3ee029 author). Supplemented and printed his master’s Shényìng jīng 神應經 in Hóngxī 1 (1425), the early-Míng acupuncture clinical-prescription manual that became one of the major source-works for Yáng Jìzhōu’s Zhēnjiǔ dàchéng (KR3ee027). No further biographical record survives. This is a different historical figure from both (a) the Yuán-period Zhū-Xī-school Shī scholar 劉瑾 entry above, and (b) the Ming eunuch 劉瑾 (d. 1510).