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Qinshu Daquan Folio 17 (V. 372 - 385) 1		 雜錄
琴書大全十七卷

This section has 59 entries, mostly prose. Many are fables. Important English and Chinese language reference materials in this area are included on a separate page.
(December 2004: At present it has little more than my efforts to track down the sources of these articles.2)

  1. 洞仙傳 Dong Xian Zhuan: Biographies of Grotto-Transcendents (V.372)
    Anonymous, probably 6th C. CE (SW; 17777.24 洞仙歌)

  2. 神仙感遇傳 Shenxian Ganyu Zhuan: Encounters with Divine Transcendents (V.372)
    By 杜光庭 Du Guangting (850 - 933; see also #3)

  3. (墉城?)集仙錄 (Yongcheng?) Jixian Lu: Record of the Transcendents Gathered (at Yongcheng?) (V.372/3)
    By Du Guangting, about Daoist women transcendents and deities (?; see #2). Two selections:

    1. 弊衣負琴;

      山陽浦者山陽人也不知其姓名.... Concerns Pu of Shanyang meeting a Daoist in ragged clothing carrying a qin....

    2. 石室彈琴

      太真夫人者王母之小女也.... Concerns a woman named 婉羅 Wan Luo.

  4. 文始內傳 Wenshi Neizhuan: Yin Xi's Inner Teachings (V.373)
    13766.307xxx; anonymous 6th century text, surviving only in fragments (Wenshi = 關尹子 Guan Yinzi = 尹喜 Yin Xi)

  5. 琴仙傳 Qin Xian Zhuan: Biographies of Qin Immortals (V.373)
    21570.xxx;

  6. 洞冥記 Tong Ming Ji: Account of Knowing the Profound (V.373)
    17777.54: 4 folios, by 郭憲 Guo Xian of Latter Han

    • 拊落霞琴

      漢武帝嘗夕望東邊有青雲.... Han emperor Wudi sees two 神女 heavenly women dancing

  7. 化書 Hua Shu (V.373)
    2614.89 A book on magic by 南唐譚峭 Tan Qiao (10th c.; Giles)

      Two untitled selections, both concerning qin se

    1. 操琴瑟之音則翛然而閑奏鄭衛之音則....

    2. 觀其文章則知其人之貴賤焉。觀其書籇則知其人之情性焉。聞其琴瑟則知其人者道德焉....

  8. 幽明錄 You Ming Lu: Accounts of the Hidden and the Visible (V.373/4)
    9411.33xxx; (youming); by     Liu Yiqing;

  9. 江湖紀文 Jianghu Jiwen (V.374)
    17496.316 etc have various 江湖 Jianghu titles, including books by 陳起 Chen Qi (12th c; Bio/1343) and 陳浩 Chen Hao (also Song)

  10. 山河例記 Shanhe Liji: Records from Mountains and Rivers (V.374)
    8043.xxx;

    • 望月鼓琴 Playing qin facing the moon.

      晉世王恭伯字子升會稽人美姿容善鼓琴.... Jin (14210.95xxx) Shiwang (Prince of Shi? 33.xxx) Gongbo (10838.22xxx), style name Zisheng (7072.58xxx), of Kuaiji, had a beautiful appearance and was skilled at qin.... (Woman appears as he is playing.)

  11. 樹萱錄 Shuxuan Lu Record of Amnesia Plants (V.374)
    15888.91 shuxuan: amnesia plant

    • 碧溪彈琴 Bixi Tan Qin

      番禺鄭僕射嘗遊湘中.... Zheng Puyi (40513.xxx; 1151.24 a rank) meets a woman by the Xiang river

  12. 祖台(之)，志怪 Zhi Guai: Accounts of Anomalies (V.374)
    By 祖台之 Zu Taizhi (25209.28 晉，范陽人). For this and other zhiguai see     Strange Writing.

  13. 北瑣夢言 Beisuo Mengyan (V.374)
    2615.336 is a 北夢瑣言 Beimeng Suoyan by 孫光憲 Sun Guangxian (d. 968; ICTCL)

  14. 武夷山記 Wuyi Shan Ji Record of Wuyi Mountain (V.374/5)
    武夷君 16623.83 Wuyi Jun, quotes several sources including Wuyi Shan Ji by 陸羽 Lu Yu (733 - ca.804);    3 quotes are not identical

  15. 鄭緝之，東陽記 Zheng Ji(zhi): Records of Dongyang (V.375)
    14827.496 name of many places; Zheng Ji(zhi) 40513.xxx, 28294.1xxx

    • 王質聽琴

      晉中朝時有王質者入山伐木.... When Wang Zhi (Bio/106 #1: 西晉東陽人 a man of Dongyang, 4th c.) went to the mountains to cut wood, he saw four boys playing qin and singing; when he returned home decades had passed. (Elsewhere: centuries had passed; the boys also played chess.)

  16. 西京雜記 Xijing Zaji: Miscellaneous Records of the Eastern Capital4 (V.375)

  17. 王子年，拾遺(記) Wang Zinian, Shi Yi (Ji): Researching Lost Records (V.375)
    Compiled 6th c. by 蕭綺 Xiao Qi; two selections indicated, but written without a break

    1. 師延一絃

      師延者商之樂人也。設樂以....Shi Yan plays a one-string qin

    2. 奏迷魂遙魄曲

      師延乃更奏迷魂遙魄曲以歡脩夜之娛乃....

  18. 張華，博物志 Bowu Zhi: Treatise on Curiosities (V.375)
    By Zhang Hua (232 - 300); see SW; I don't know why this is not together with #42 below

  19. 語林 Yu Lin (Compare #47 below; V.375)
    36351.23 by 晉裴啟 Pei Qi of Jin (Bio/2457); source for 殷芸，小說 Xiao Shuo (Lesser Sayings) by Yin Yun

  20. 盧氏，雜說 Lu Shi, Zashuo: Fragmented Writings of Lushi
    23580.32 Chun Qiu period doctor; county in Henan (see also     #23 below; V.375)

  21. 王琰，冥詳記 Wang Yan, Mingxiang Ji (V.375)
    Tang? (Bio/137 has three); 1621.xxx

    • 死還彈琴; concerns 史光 Shi Guang (Bio/xxx); mentions 阿母 A Mu (Bio/xxx)

      史光死後為天上人常還後彈琴樂阿母聲清妙不同餘音。

  22. 炙轂子雜錄 Zhiguzi Zalu: Miscellaneous Records of Zhiguzi (V.376)
    By 王叡 Wang Rui, nickname Zhiguzi (Tang; Bio/149)
    Elsewhere he comments on     Zhao Yin

  23. 沈括，筆談 Shen Gua, Bitan (V.376)
    Shen Gua (1030 - 1093) wrote 夢溪筆談 Mengxi Bitan; see also     #45 below
    Has 5 subtitles but only four sections: #4 and #5 are combined.

    1. 廣陵散辨

      盧氏雜說漢皋謂嵇康庚琴曲.... Lu Shi, Zashuo (see #20 above); concerns Han Gao and Guangling San (see also #52 below).

    2. 吳音感莫

      高郵人桑景舒性知音聽百物之聲.... Concerns 桑景疏 Sang Jingshu and the melody 虞美人操 Yumeiren Cao

    3. 趙公龜琴

      趙閱道為成都轉運使出行部唯攜一龜一琴坐.... Zhao Yuedao plays qin while looking at a turtle.

    4. 女善琴詩

      毗陵郡士人家有一女姓李氏方年十六歲....A teenage woman poet surnamed 李 Li writes a poem 拾得破錢 Shi De destroys his money. Also mentions Wang Wei and Guangling San

    5. 廣陵散潑攦聲

      或說嘗有人觀畫彈琴圖，曰，此彈廣陵散也。此或可信。廣陵散中有數聲他曲皆無。如潑攦聲之類是也。

  24. 外史檮杌 Waishi Taowu: Tales of a Blockhead (V.376/7)
    5879.44; 16076.1: fabulous beast; book from ancient Chu
    Three selections but one title: 文錫琴婚 Wenxi's Qin Marriage (for #2)

    1. 任如元字子沖樂安人也。心計籌策出於眾人事王建累.... Concerns Ren Ruyuan (Bio/xxx)

    2. 毛文錫字平珪唐太僕卿龜範之子.... Mao Wenxi (10th c; Bio/278; poet), fleeing disorder goes to Sichuan, where he meets a lady who also likes qin; he seduces her with the song Feng Qiu Huang and they marry

    3. 黃彬字溫其成都人。美風姿幼年嘗過麗春坊群妓投以龍.... Concerns Huang Bin (Bio/2069xxx)

  25. 大周正樂記 Account of the Correct Music of Zhou (V.377)

  26. 琴書遺編 Qin Writings, a Valued Tome (V.377)
    21570.xxx;

  27. 揚雄，琴清英 Yang Xiong (53 BCE - 18 CE), Qin Qing Ying (V.377)
    Earliest book on qin, but it survives only in fragments; two selections

    1. 荀息琴悲 Xun Xi (Warring States period; 31659.27) plays qin (making 晉王 the King of Jin) sad

      晉王謂荀息曰，子鼓琴能察人悲乎？.... (an almost verbatim match to the story of 孫息 Sun Xi; see also the story of Yongmen Zhou).

    2. 吉甫子安之操 Yin Boqi's Zi An Lament (7072.114xxx; compare Lüshuang Cao).

      尹吉甫子伯奇至孝後母諧自投江中...

  28. 都頡，琴盧跋尾 Du Jie, Qinlu Bawei (V.377)
    Du Jie (11th/12th c; Bio/1842)

    • An untitled essay on listening, dated 8th month of 1101

      "善琴難。余謂善聽亦不易。得牛鳴窖中，其音中宮。雞登木上，其音中角。惟善聽乃知此....
      ....用羯鼓解穢 (use a deer-skin drum to explain the ugliness [?]) 建中辛已八月庚子題.

  29. 杜陽，雜篇 Du Yang, Miscellaneous Essays (V.377/8)
    Du Yang (Bio/xxx)

    • 碧玉蠶絲 (24916.xxx; jasper silk fiber)

      碧玉蠶絲即永泰元年東海彌羅國所貢....
      Jasper silk fiber, in 765 CE, is what the East Sea Encompassing Country had to offer....

  30. 羯鼓錄 Jiegu Lu: Deerskin-Drum Record (V.378)
    29164.7 a book by 唐南卓 Nan Zhuo (Tang; Bio/1703);

    • 花奴鮮穢

      汝陽王璡 Prince Jin of Ruyang (i.e., Huanu) was the eldest son of 寧王 the Prince of Ning (Tang dynasty; 31461.74)....

  31. 耳目記 Ermu Ji: Records of Ear and Eye (V.378/9)
    29637.12xxx; two section titles are given, but they run together in one long article;
    both concern 李山甫 Li Shanfu (9th/10th c.; see poem at     Folio 19B, #2)

    1. 玉亭供奉

      唐乾符中黃巢盜據兩京.... During 874 - 880, Huang Chao (rebel, d. 884) brought disorder....; 王欽 Wang Qin (Bio/xxx) of Chang'an, skilled at qin and chess....has a discussion with Li Shanfu

    2. 廣陵傳世

      Concerns transmission of Guangling San (also: 蕭(王+向 21450) Xiao Xiang?).

  32. 觀宋復古畫序 Preface to Looking at a Painting by Song Fugu (V.379)
    Fugu was the style name of 宋迪 Song Di, a painter from Loyang (see     further)

  33. 郡閣雅談 Jun'ge Yatan: Elegant Talk in a Prefectural Chamber (V.379)
    40284.xxx; 42903.160/2 mentions only a 秘閣雅談

    • 王元琴詩 Qin poem by Wang Yuan

      王元字文元桂林人也。苦吟風月終于貧病妻黃氏共....
      Wang Yuan (Bio/86xxx), style name Wenyuan, was from Guilin....

  34. 逸史 Yishi: Anecdote (V.379/80)
    39824.18 something outside the official history

  35. 異文錄 Yi Wen Lu: Record of Strange Things Written (V.380)
    22369.12 yiwen, no book title; compare 異聞記 Yiwen Ji, attrib. 陳寔 Chen Shi (104 - 187; see     SW)

  36. 熙寧雜編 Xining Zabian: Miscellaneous Accounts during 1068 - 78 (V.380)
    19672.50 Xining

  37. 鍾惟靜，雲軒集錄 Zhong Weijing, Yunxuan Jilu (V.380)
    Zhong Weijing (Bio/xxx; 11050.xxx); Yunxian (43170.267 Cloud Carriage)

  38. 縉紳挫說 Jinshen Cuoshuo (V.380)
    28365.3 Red Sashes (for officials); oppressive words (?)

    • 月夜女郎琴歌 Women's qin song on a moonlit evening

      零陵掾劉諷夜投夷陵空館。月下見四女郎....
      Liu Feng (Bio/xxx) meets women who play qin with other instruments.

  39. 昭德樸齋錄 Zhaode Record of Puzhai (V.380/1)
    Perhaps part of 昭德文集 Zhaode Wenji by 晁公武 Zhao Gongwu;
    Mentions Su Dongpo; see     further

  40. 傳奇 Chuan Qi: Transmitted Marvels (V.381)
    Chuan Qi 1040.59

    • 蕭曠彈琴過神女賦詩

      大和中處士蕭曠自洛陽東遊至孝義館....
      During dahe (5960.629 pleasant times) Retired scholar 蕭曠 Xiao Kuang (Bio/xxx) traveled east from Loyang.... Playing qin one night he met an immortal (woman).... they exchanged poems.

  41. 正一先生傳 Zhengyi Xiansheng Zhuan (V.381)
    Mr. Zheng Yi is     Sima Chengzheng

  42. 博物志 Bowu Zhi: Record of Curiosities (V.381/2)
    By Zhang Hua (232 - 300); I don't know why this is not together with #18 above

  43. 葆光錄 Baoguang Lu (V.382)
    32237.9-11xxx

    • 鼓琴去爪/瓜; concerns 求嬰處士 Retired Scholar Qiu Ying (Bio/xxx)
      Qiu Ying, a skilled qin player, got rid of his fingernails so the sound would be more 肉 fleshy. One gentleman didn't like this. Ying colored and said, If you enjoy that sound, why don't you use a mallet to play? The listeners laughed heartily.

      道士張生善鼓琴。嗜孟子下....

  44. 金徽變化篇 Jinhui Bianhua Pian: Golden Studs Transformed (V.382)
    41049.1228 only     jinhui. Here there are four short excerpts:

    1. 松風澗響 Wind in the pines and a melodious torrent

      段由夫攜琴就松風澗響之間。曰，三者皆自然之聲。正和類....
      Duan Youfu plays amidst the sounds of wind in the pines and flowing water

    2. 醉欲剖琴 Drunken desire to split open a qin

      嵇康抱琴訪山濤。濤醉欲剖琴。康曰....
      Xi Kang takes qin and wine to the mountains to visit Shan Tao. Tao is drunk and wants to split open the qin....

    3. 松節支琴 Pines rhythmically hit a qin

      白少傅支琴用胡松節。
      Shaofu (a rank) Bai hit a qin....

    4. 琴湧黑蛟 Qin flowing black dragons

      孫登琴遇雨必遊響如刃物聲。竟因大雨破作數截有黑蛟湧出。
      When it rained, Sun Deng's qin would sound like it was killing something (?)....

  45. 補筆談 Bu Bitan (V.382)
    Appendix to Bitan (    Mengxi Bitan?)

  46. 南都新書 Nandu Xinshu (V.382)
    2798.518-9xxx; two short excerpts

    1. Untitled

      賈魏公善琴，皆妙絕一時。 Jia Weigong (37609.xxx) played the qin well; best of his day.

    2. 調絃異香降 Plucking the strings and a strange fragrance comes down

      衛次公彈壞陵操。每調絃有異香降。
      Wei Cigong (?) played       Huai Ling Cao. Every time he plucked a string a strange fragrance came down.

  47. 唐語林 Tang Yulin (Compare #19 above; V.382)
    3714.335, 8 folios, by 王讜 Wang Dang (11th/12th c.; Bio/142), in style of Shishuo Xinyu; two excerpts

    1. 鼓琴猿嘯 Play the qin and a gibbon cries out

      獨孤常州及末年尤嗜鼓琴....
      Dugu Ji, from Changzhou (sees 李汧公之子李基 [should be 李約 Li Yue]; gibbon story)

    2. 趙璧琴術 The qin art of Zhao Bi

      趙璧彈五絃琴。人問其術。璧曰，.... Zhao Bi explains his five-string qin.

  48. 真仙通鑑 Zhenxian Tongjian (V.382)
    23804.30 zhenxian a true transcendent

  49. 捫虱新語 Menshi Xinyu (V.382/3)
    12503.xxx, but .17 is 捫蝨新話 Menshi Xinhua, 15 folios, by 宋，陳善 Chen Shan (12th c; Bio/1351)

    • 魚聽琴聲 Fish listen to qin sounds

      陳丈壽嘗語，予人有鑿池以牧魚.... Chen Zhangshou (Bio/xxx; 16.xxx) once said, I have a sunken pond for raising fish. (Whene he played qin over the pond, the fish came up to listen.)

  50. 太平廣記 Taiping Guangji: Extended Gleanings of the Reign of Great Tranquility (V.383)
    5965.124 book in 500 folios by 李昉 Li Fang (925 - 996; ICTCL) et al; published 977 CE (see also     Linru Hou)

  51. 山家清供 Shanjia Qinggong (V.383)
    8043.373 has shanjia only; this essay also in     Qin Fu with the author identified as Lin Hong
    林洪 Lin Hong (c. 1340-c.1400; Bio/1441: from 泉州 Quanzhou, style name 龍發 Longfa, nickname 可山; ICTCL: style name 子羽 Ziyu (善部 Shanbu?), antiquarian poet who lived mostly in his native Fujian

  52. 春渚紀聞 Chunzhu Jiwen: News from the Water's Edge on a Spring Day (V.383)
    14146.440 Book in 10 folios by 何薳 He Wei (1077 - 1145; Bio/1086); includes sections on     Dongpo, poetry, qin, etc.
    There are three titles but only two stories here. The second title, 咸陽銅琴 Copper qin in Xianyang, is included with the first story.

    1. 琴製六等 Six classes of qin

      爾雅大琴謂之離，二十七絃。舜彈五絃之琴而天下治。文武加二絃以合君臣之恩。蔡邕益之為九。漢高祖入咸陽宮得銅琴十三絃，銘之曰璠璵。馬明生僊遊見神女於玉几上彈一絃琴....
      Er Ya (said) a "big qin is called a li"; (a note added) it had 27 strings. Shun played a five string qin and the world was well-regulated. Wen Wang and Wu Wang each added one string to harmonize master and servent. Then Cai Yong made it nine. When Han Gaozu entered Xianyang palace and obtained a 13 string copper qin (presumably the one said to have been made by Qin Shi Huang) he inscribed it 璠璵之樂 Music of Fanyu Jade. Maming Sheng in his immortal wanderings saw a Divine Woman on a jade bench playing a one string qin.... (the story compares this with the instruments previously mentioned).

    2. 廣陵散辨 Distinguishing Guangling San

      廣陵散傳稱嵇中散受之神人至唐韓皋....
      (Concerns Xi Kang, Han Gao, etc. See also #23 above).

  53. 高似孫，緯略 Gao Sisun Wei Lue: Weft Sketch (V.383)
    Wei Lue 28268.19, in 12 folios by 高似孫 Gao Sisun (d.1231; Bio/1996; not, as here, by 馬似孫 Ma Sisun)

  54. 山海經 Shanhai Jing (V.383/4)

    • 太子長琴 "Great Child Long Zither"

      大荒西經云﹕西北海之外有....
      Passage is translated in Anne Birrell, The Classic of Mountain and Seas, Penguin, p.174: 太子長琴 "Great Child Long Lute" (should be "Zither"), living on 搖山 Yao Shan ("Mount Shake") was 始作樂 "the first to compose musical airs".

  55. 神僊通鑑 Shenxian Tongjian: Lessons of Divine Transcendents (V.384)
    25211.347xxx; (seems to be a continuation of     Shishuo Xinyu);

  56. 與彥正判官書 Yu Yan Zheng Pan'guan Shu: A Letter to Department Chief Yan Zheng (V.384)
    Yanzheng 10209.15xxx

  57. 聽賢師琴 Ting Xianshi Qin (V.384)
    A letter, or part of a letter, by     (Su) Dongpo, dated 1089;

  58. 夷堅志 Yijian Zhi: Record of Yijian (夷堅支 must be a mistake; V.384/5)
    5977.80: Yijian, in Liezi, enquired about things;
    5977.81: a book in 50 (420!) folios by 洪邁 Hong Mai (1123 - 1202; Bio/1776; ICTCL)

    • 麻姑琴精 Qin essence of Ma Gu (sister of 王遠, 2nd C. CE; both were magicians)

      劉過字改之，襄陽人.... Liu Guo (Bio/xxx)... long story

  59. 琴諭 Qin Yu: Qin Proclamation (V.385)
    Preface and essay by ???

    • 古今寓言 Allegories Old and New

      甚哉似是之感人易....

 
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)

1. Miscellaneous Accounts
There is further information in the Preface. (V....) refers to page numbers in Vol. V of Qinqu Jicheng.
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2. Content of the stories
Many stories such as those here concern women.
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3. 陸羽 Lu Yu (733 - ca.804)
Lu Yu (Bio/1305) is most famous as author of the 茶經 Classic of Tea (茶經 Cha Jing. His style name was 鴻漸 Hongjian, but he had several other names as well, including 茶宇翁 Old Man of the Tea World and 陸疵 Lu Ci (Flawed Lu). As recounted in Giles, he was from 復州 Fuzhou in Hubei, "said to have been picked up when an infant and adopted by a Bhuddhist priest. But as he refused to join the priesthood, he was set to do menial work; in consequence of which he fled and became a clown. In this capacity he attracted the noice of an official who supplied him with books to educate himself. About the year 775 he betook himself to a hermit's life.... Author of the Cha Jing, a famous work on tea, which beverage he declared could be made to perfection only with water from Hubei." ICTCL (186, 270, 843) mentions his friendship with Li Ye, work with Jiaoran and others, and his autobiography. See also his reported question to Zhang Zhihe.
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4. 西京雜記 Xijing Zaji (Miscellaneous Records of the Western Capital)
Xijing Zaji (35587.198; 6 folios [130 sections?]; see ICTCL, p. 406) is a compilation attributed at various times to different people, e.g., Wu Jun of Liang, 劉歆 Liu Xin, 葛洪 Ge Hong and 蕭奔 Xiao Ben. It is a reference for a number of entries on this site, including,

  1. Qin Shihuang
  2. Liu Daoqing (also the Liu Daoqiang reference above)
  3. Wang Zhaojun
  4. Shuang Feng Li Luan.
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