Zhū Zhèn 朱震
Style name Zǐfā 子發; conventionally Master Hànshàng 漢上先生 from his late residence on the Hàn-river bank (Hànshàng 漢上). Native of Jīngménjūn 荆門軍 (modern Jīngmén, Húběi). Lifedates 1072–1138 (Northern through early Southern Sòng). The Sòngshǐ (juan 435) gives him a substantial biography in the Rúlín section.
Jìnshì of the Zhènghé era under Huīzōng. Held a series of provincial appointments through the 1110s and 1120s. After the southern crossing of 1127, recommended by Zhào Dǐng 趙鼎 (the great early-Southern-Sòng anti-Jurchen statesman) to Cíbù yuánwài láng 祠部員外郎 (“Vice Director of the Bureau of Sacrifices”); rose under Gāozōng to Hànlín xuéshì 翰林學士 and Hébù shàngshū 戶部尚書 (“Minister of Revenue”).
Studied the Yì under the late-Northern-Sòng Chéng-school disciple Xiè Liángzuǒ 謝良佐 (the same teacher who recovered the KR1a0016 manuscript of Chéng Yí’s Yìzhuàn). The Zhū Zhèn–Xiè Liángzuǒ–Chéng Yí line is one of the principal channels of late-Northern-Sòng Yì-thought into the early Southern Sòng. But Zhū Zhèn synthesized the Chéng yìlǐ with the Liú Mù 劉牧 KR1a0011 / Chén Tuán Yìtú tradition and the Hàn xiàngshù corpus (Mèng Xǐ, Jīng Fáng, Yú Fān, Zhèng Xuán) into the most synthetic and ambitious Sòng-period Yì-commentary.
His sole substantial surviving work:
- [[KR1a0024|Hànshàng Yì zhuàn]] 漢上易傳 in eleven juan, with appended Guà tú 卦圖 in three juan and Cóng shuō 叢說 in one juan — the most extensive Sòng-period xiàngshù commentary on the Yì; composed over eighteen years (1116–1134) and submitted to court in 1134 with the famous Hànshàng Yì zhuàn biǎo 漢上易傳表 (“Memorial Submitting Hànshàng Yì zhuàn”), the document that canonized for the Sòngshǐ the standard Sòng Yìtú transmission narrative (Chén Tuán → Mù Xiū → Zhōu Dūnyí → Chéng brothers; Chōng Fàng → Lǐ Zhīcái → Shào Yōng; Chōng Fàng → Lǐ Gài → Liú Mù).
Several of his minor works (Cóng shuō essays on individual Yì-questions, prefaces, court memorials) survive scattered through the Southern-Sòng corpus.