Jǐng Xīng 景星 (fl. mid-14th century)
Hào Nèān 訥菴. Native of Yúyáo 餘姚 (modern Zhèjiāng, Wūzhōu region). Late-Yuán Lǐxué scholar; lifedates not securely recorded.
The Sìkù tíyào at KR1h0041 preserves a colophon by Qián Shí 錢時 of Xuāndé 9 (1434) saying he obtained Jiǎng Jì 蒋驥’s manuscript copy of Jǐng Xīng’s work; Jiǎng Jì’s own colophon is dated gēngchén — Jiànwén 1 (1399), per the Sìkù dating; Jiǎng Jì calls himself Jǐng Xīng’s “ménrén” (disciple). On this evidence the Sìkù editors place Jǐng Xīng in the late Yuán, ca. 1340s–1370s. CBDB id 108574.
Jǐng Xīng spent ten years on his Sìshū commentary; the original Sìshū jíshuō qǐméng 四書集說啟蒙 covered all four texts, but only the Dàxué and Zhōngyōng portions were ever cut for print, and the LúnyǔMèngzǐ portions were already lost when the Tōngzhìtáng jīngjiě (Qing-period reprint) re-cut the surviving fragment. The Sìkù WYG copy KR1h0041 preserves only the 2-juàn Dàxué Zhōngyōng jíshuō qǐméng portion, with mostly intact internal annotations.
Of methodological note (per the Sìkù tíyào): Jǐng Xīng’s apparatus carries traces of Xǔ Héng’s 許衡 (1209–81, Lǔzhāi) and Xióng Hé’s 熊禾 (1247–1312, Wùxuān) markings — the additions made when Qián Shí re-cut the Yǒnglè 9 (1434) text. The exact attribution of which marks are by Xǔ Héng and which by Xióng Hé is no longer recoverable.
(CBDB id 108574 gives “1370” as a death-year, but the Sìkù tíyào’s reasoning — that he was Jiǎng Jì’s master and that Jiǎng Jì wrote a 1399 colophon — gives him a fl. date in the late 14th century or earlier; conventional placement is mid-14th century.)