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Faming Qinpu Qin Handbook of Revelations 2 This handbook, by Huang Longshan3 of Yiyang,4 has 25 melodies, 16 with lyrics, nine without.

發明琴譜 1 1530   Faming Qinpu: How to put on strings   Is this Huang Longshan himself? 5

For further information about Faming Qinpu see:

• Zha Fuxi's Preface giving background to the history and contents of Faming Qinpu.
• My additional commentary
• The Table of Contents, listing all the melodies, and adding links to commentary
  on the four that occur for the first time in this handbook; all have lyrics. (I have
  transcribed all four, but can play fluently only the latter two):
  1. Qiujiang Wan Diao (Autumn River Evening Fishing)
  2. Sheng De Song (Hymn of Grand Moral Virtue)
  3. Yangguan Sandie (Thrice Parting for Yangguan, earliest short version)
  4. Shiba Xueshi Deng Yingzhou (18 Scholars ascend Yingzhou)

 
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)

1. Faming Qinpu References
    23178.64 發明 faming: name of a spirit bird;
    in Shi Ji 68, "reveal";
    in science, to come to an important understanding.

The full name of this handbook in QQJC is 新刊發明琴譜 Xinkan Faming Qinpu (Newly Engraved Faming Qinpu).
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2. Alternate translation: Qin Handbook for Spreading Clarity
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3. Huang Longshan 黃龍山
48904.xxx Though from Yiyang in Jiangxi (see below), he apparently lived in Nanjing. Many handbooks were compiled around this time in Nanjing, and it is not clear whether his style originated there or it was something he brought there with him. See QSCB, Chapter 7 and further comments.

Hsu Wenying, p. 224, mentions a 李開先發明琴譜 Faming Qinpu by Li Kaixian (1502 - 1568), one of the "eight great scholars" during the Jiaqing reign (1522 - 67), noted for his connection to opera. Her reference is Li Kaixian's Ming biography, but this may be for the biographical information she includes, not her credit to him of Faming Qinpu. I know of no other references connecting Li Kaixian to this handbook.
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4. Another Jiangxi province handbook
弋陽 Yiyang is a town in Jiangxi province about 100 miles east of 南昌 Nanchang, where Shen Qi Mi Pu (1425) was compiled. It is about the same distance south of Huangshan, where Taigu Yiyin (1511) was compiled. Yiyang is on the 信江 Xin River, which flows west into Poyang Lake. The river is fed in part by streams coming down from 武夷山 Wuyi Shan to the south. The preface was "respectfully written while lodging at a pleasant hut in Nanjing".
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5. From Folio I, the second folio page, of Faming Qinpu; QQJC I/213
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