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Zangchunwu Qinpu
Zangchunwu Qin Handbook 1		 藏春塢琴譜
1602

This handbook has 65 melodies in six folios. It was compiled by Hao Ning2 and other eunuchs at the court in Nanjing; Zangchunwu was a walled village near that city.3 At the front there are prefaces by Li Dai4 and Dong Futing5 dated 1602. At the end are afterwords by Yan Cheng6 (not a eunuch, his music is compiled in Songxian Guan Qinpu, 1614) and Hao Ning again (undated).

The first three folios of this handbook have essays; folios 4 to 6 have the 65 melodies, three with lyrics. The melodies are said to have been collected by Hao Ning, Yan Cheng and Wang Ding'an.7 However, 51 of the 65 melodies are in fact identical to their versions in Yuwu Qinpu, a handbook compiled by a eunuch in Beijing.

Of the 14 melodies here that were not in Yuwu Qinpu, three (or four) appear here for the first time. The other 10 are versions of melodies found in other handbooks.8

The four titles said to be new are all attributed to Shen Taishao, as follows:

  1. 和氣吟 He Qi Yin (VI/293)
    Only here; prelude to Dongtian Chun Xiao, both of which are attributed to 沈太韶 Shen Taishao
  2. 洞天春曉 Dongtian Chun Xiao (VI/294)
    First of 28 (connected to He Qi Yin)
  3. 溪山秋月 Qishan Qiu Yue (VI/354)
    Also attributed to Shen Taishao; Guide 28/224/-- says first of 9, but the music is similar to that of the
    箕山秋月 Jishan Qiu Yue for which the Guide 29/230/441 has 17 entries beginning with 1589 (revisions?).
  4. 鳳翔霄漢 Feng Xiang Xiao Han (VI/400)
    First of 6; attributed to Shen Taishao
 
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)

1 藏春塢 Zangchunwu Qinpu; QQJC, Volume VII (Return)

2 郝寧 Hao Ning (Return)

3 藏春塢 Zangchunwu (Return)

4 李戴 Li Dai (Return)

5 董复亭 Dong Futing (Return)

6 嚴澂 Yan Cheng (Return)

7 王定安 Wang Ding'an (Return)

8 Zha Fuxi's Preface says there are 66 melodies, but this is a mistake. And his Guide lists seven titles as new compositions, but at least three of these are not new:

  1. 赤壁賦 Chibi Fu (VI/425)
    This version of the Qian Chibi Fu published in 1539 is in fact copied from Yuwu Qinpu.
  2. 神品慢角意 Shenpin Manjiao Yi (VI/???; only in ToC)
    Only in Table of Contents; probably was a version of Shenpin Biyu Yi
  3. 神遊八極 Shen You Baji (VI/431)
    This is a version of Baji You

The other four are the melodies attributed to Shen Taishao, one of which (溪山秋月 Qishan Qiu Yue; VI/354) had been published earlier under a different title. (Return)

Return to the annotated handbook list or to the Guqin ToC.