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Tao Zongyi 陶宗儀

Tao Zongyi1 (1316 - ?) was from Huangyan in Zhejiang province. His style name was Jiucheng, his nickname Nancun. He is not listed in any books as a qin player, but he wrote several articles and his book collection includes a number of important early works on the qin.

The relevant entries in his book collection, Shuo Fu (Environs of Fiction), are listed in a footnote to Qinshu Cunmu.2

Qinshu Cunmu has two works with a qin theme that it says he compiled,3

  1. Qinjian Tushuo and
  2. Qin Shi
However, Shuo Fu itself has only a Qinjian Tushi. Its table of contents says it is by Zhao Si,4 but the article itself (which has nine pages, consisting of qin shapes with explanations) says it is by Tao Zongyi.

In addition Tong Kin-Woon's Qin Fu has his "Record of Ceasing Farm Labors" (Chuogeng Lu4). This lists the names of qin makers since the Sui dynasty (Zhao Quli) and the names of famous qin.

Not completed.

 
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)

1 Bio/2055 陶宗儀，明初浙江黃巖人,字九成，號南村，元未、 (Return)

2 說郛 Shuo Fu, Folio 100, seems to have 18 music titles in all. The first six have "qin" in the title:

  1. Qinqu Pulu
  2. Qinsheng Jingwei
  3. Qinjian Tushi (see also Qin Shi)
  4. Yaqin Minglu
  5. Zashu Qinshi
  6. Gu Qin Shu
    (Return)

3 Qinshu Cunmu lists these as two separate entries, but his catalogue to Shuo Fu seems to combine them into a 琴箋圖式 Qinjian Tushi. (Return)

4 趙緦 Zhao Si ? 38015.xxx. The "Si" is smudged. (Return)

5 輟耕錄 ; see Qin Fu, pp. 1705 and 1746 (two footnotes) (Return)

 

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