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164 II. Commentaries, Essays, and Related Works ————————————————————————————————————————— from Zhejiang) wrote his Fenshi guzhu Cantong qi (An Analytical Explication of Ancient Commentaries to the Cantong qi) in jail, where he was serving a sentence for uxoricide. A short colophon signed by Qintian Shuiyue 秦田水月 tells that he had received the Cantong qi on Mount Wuyi (Wuyi shan 武夷山 , Fujian) from a Nangdao zhe 囊道者 , also known as Qingteng shanren 青藤山人 . Despite ten years of attempts, says the colophon, Qintian Shuiyue had not yet succeeded in ascertaining Nangdao zhe’s identity. Both characters in this account are Xu Wei’s alter egos, since their names are known as his pseudonyms. 13 Except for the fanciful colophon, Xu Wei’s work does not bear a preface or a postface. His collected works, however, include an undated essay entitled “Preface to a Commentary to the Cantong qi” (“Zhu Cantong qi xu” 注參同契序 ). 14 In this essay, Xu Wei maintains that the present Cantong qi contains not only Wei Boyang’s Canon, but also Xu Congshi 徐從事 ’s Commentary. He rejects, however, the arrangement of the Ancient Text, disputing the view that Canon and Commentary respectively consist of the portions in four- and five-character verses. According to Xu Wei, the portions that in most redactions of the Cantong qi correspond to Book 1 are Wei Boyang’s Canon; those that correspond to Book 2 are Xu Congshi’s Commentary; and those that correspond to Book 3 are equally divided between Canon and Commentary. On the basis of this understanding, Xu Wei Xu Wei divides the Cantong qi into three Books, followed by a Postface (“Houxu”). Each section of the Canon is immediately followed by the corresponding section of the Commentary. The result of this rearrangement is actually similar to the version that Xu Wei criticized: the correspondences between the sections that he designates as Canon and Commentary often match those pointed out by commentators of the Ancient Text. The main difference is that, in Xu Wei’s text, Canon and Commentary are not set apart from one another according to 13 “Qintian Shuiyue” 秦田水月 is a wordplay on Xu Wei’s name, created by reading the graph xu 徐 as formed by sanren 三人 and he 禾 , and reassembling these graphs into the graph qin 秦 ; and by breaking the graph wei 渭 into its components tian 田 , shui 水 , and yue 月 . Xu Wei has a biography in Mingshi, 288.7387–88. See also Goodrich and Fang, eds., Dictionary of Ming Biography, 609–12, and Nienhauser, ed., Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature, 1:436–37. On his relation to Taoism, see Zhang Songhui, “Tan Xu Wei de daoshi shenfen ji qi yu Daojia Daojiao de guanxi.” 14 Xu Wei ji, 19.543–44. See also p. 186, note 6 below. © Fabrizio Pregadio and Golden Elixir Press 2012
3. Ming and Qing Dynasties 165 ————————————————————————————————————————— SECTION TEXT COMMENTARY ————————————————————————————————————————— Shang pian 上篇 (Book 1) [1–17; 43–52] 1 1–3 [I] 43–47 [XVI–XVII] 2 4–17 [II–V] 48–52 [XVIII–XIX] Zhong pian 中篇 (Book 2) [18–27; 53–61] 3 18–25 [VI–VII] 53–60 [XX–XXII] 4 26–27 [VIII] 61 [XXIII] Xia pian 下篇 (Book 3) [28–42, 82–85; 62–81] 5 28–29 [IX] 62–65 [XXIV] 6 30–31 [X] 66–67 [XXV] 7 32–33 [XI] 68–71 [XXVI–XXVII] 8 34–38 [XII–XIII] 72 [XXVIII] 9 39–40 [XIV] 73 [XXIX] 10 41–42 [XV] 74–76 [XXX–XXXI] 11 82 [XXXIII] — 12 83–85 [XXXIV] 77–81 [XXXII] Houxu 後序 (Postface) [86–88; “Eulogium”] 13 86–88 [XXXV] “Eulogium” [—] ————————————————————————————————————————— Arrangement of Xu Wei’s Guzhu Cantong qi fenshi 古注參同契分釋 , showing the correlations between main text and commentary. Sections are not numbered in Xu Wei’s text. The corresponding numbers of chapter (zhang 章 ) in Chen Zhixu’s redaction are shown in roman numbers. their meter, but principally according to their placement within the standard text. The individual sections of Xu Wei’s text precisely correspond to the chapters established by Chen Zhixu (when a section includes more than one of Chen Zhixu’s chapters, Xu Wei marks the end of a chapter with an empty circle). The text is also partly based on Chen Zhixu’s redaction, as shown by the sequences of verses 2:3–6, 46:7– 8, 46:9–12, and 72:9–14. However, Xu Wei’s text contains the verse Pages 166-184 are not included in this preview Visit the Web page on this book • www.goldenelixir.com
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