Textual Lineage of Song Scholar Zheng Qiqian’s Sheng Lu Guan Jian

Abstract

As the only extant work of Fu Ge (賦格) from the Song Dynasty, Sheng Lu Guan Jian (聲律關鍵) holds immense literary, historical, and bibliography research value. For a long time, scholars have believed that the book has only been handed down as a copy collected by Wan Wei Bie Cang (宛委別藏) during the Qing dynasty Jiaqing (嘉慶) period, which has been photocopied and proofread multiple times while ignoring the earlier and textually superior handwritten copy collected by the Zhi Bu Zu Zhai (知不足齋) owned by Bao Tingbo (鮑廷博) in the Qing dynasty. After careful comparison between the two versions, it was found that the content of the Zhi Bu Zu Zhai version was more complete. Wan Wei Bie Cang version has 48 parts of the text that were intentionally omitted, 7 parts of the text were missing, a large number of markings have all been deleted, and 43 parts of the text were copied incorrectly. These are all complete and correct in Zhi Bu Zu Zhai version. In terms of completeness, accuracy, and reliability, the Zhi Bu Zu Zhai version is far superior to the Wan Wei Bie Cang version and is the best version of the book Sheng Lu Guan Jian. Based on its format, wording, and the contact between Bao Tingbo and Ruan Yuan (阮元), as well as their frequent interactions in the editing industry, it can be reasonably concluded that the Zhi Bu Zu Zhai version of Sheng Lu Guan Jian is the original copy of the Wan Wei Bie Cang version.

Keywords

• sheng lu guan jian
• zhi bu zu zhai version
• wan wei bie cang version
• version source stream