Zhū Gōngqiān 朱公遷
Zì Kèshēng 克升. Native of Lèpíng 樂平 (modern Jiāngxī). Lifedates not recoverable. The Lèpíng xiànzhì records that he passed the Zhèjiāng provincial examination in Zhìzhèng xīnsì (1341) and held jiào (Instructor) appointments first at Wùzhōu 婺州, then transferred to Chùzhōu 處州. The Jiāngxī tōngzhì gives only Chùzhōu (the xuézhèng office); Hé Yīng 何英’s later postscript says Zhū Gōngqiān was given the xiàoguān office by special edict and held the jīnHuá fǔxiáng — the two accounts probably mark beginning and end of the same career.
Author of Shījīng shūyì 詩經疏義 in 20 juǎn (KR1c0030) — a sub-commentary expounding Zhū Xī’s Shī jí zhuàn. Completed in Zhìzhèng dīnghài (1347). Subsequently expanded by his fellow-Lèpíng townsman Wáng Féng 王逢 and Wáng Féng’s pupil Hé Yīng 何英: Wáng Féng’s additions are titled Jílù (collected records); Hé Yīng’s additions are titled Zēngshì (added expositions). Hé Yīng put together the final form in Zhèngtǒng jiǎzǐ (1444), giving the work to the Yè family of the Shūlín book trade for cutting; the version-board carried the alternate title Shī zhuàn huìtōng 詩傳會通. The Sìkù editors restore Zhū Gōngqiān’s original title.
Doctrinally Zhū Gōngqiān strictly follows Zhū Xī (“not by an inch deviating”), but is willing to make philological corrections — e.g. on Juǎn’ěr, where he corrects Zhū Xī’s reading of cuī wéi (following the Máo zhuàn’s “earth-mountain wearing stone”) with the Ěryǎ and Shuōwén gloss “stone-mountain wearing earth”; on Qī yuè, where he uses precession-of-the-equinoxes to argue that the Yuèlìng’s “Liú huǒ in the sixth month” should at the time of Gōng Liú have fallen at the fifth-sixth month boundary.