Book/Printed Material Bidongsheng jin jian : si juan 筆洞生近見 : 四卷 / / Si shu jin jian lu / Si xu Bidongxiansheng jin wu yu / Jin jian
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Title
- Bidongsheng jin jian : si juan
Other Title
- 筆洞生近見 : 四卷 /
- Si shu jin jian lu
- Si xu Bidongxiansheng jin wu yu
- Jin jian
Summary
- Includes more than two hundred items; a continuation of the author's "Si shu li ce", "Bian su" and "Weng tian lun", it was intended to enrich the content of the "Si shu" (Four classics).
- The author of this work was Xu Fenpeng (1560-1642), also known by his literary name, Bidong. The work was printed by Yu Zhixiao during the Wanli reign (1572-1620) and contains 200 or so entries, in four juan, in four volumes. The title originally given to the work was Si shu jin jian lu (Recent commentaries on the Four Books), reflecting the fact that it consists mainly of the author's comments on the Confucian Four Books: Da xue (The great learning), Lun yu (Confucian analects), Zhong yong (Doctrine of the mean), and Mengzi (Mencius). Three prefaces accompanied the commentaries, one by the author himself, one by Yu Zhixiao (dated 1612), and a third by Yu Jiquan (also dated 1612). Xu Fenpeng was known to have been a brilliant scholar and historian. At a young age he took first place in the examinations at county and prefectural level, but he refused to serve in the government. To earn his living, he established a school, located at the foot of Bijia Shan (Brush Holder Mountain) in Guangdong Province, and wrote. He used his own revised texts of the classics to teach his students. A prolific writer and publisher, Xu left behind many works. His histories were particularly well known and enjoyed fame even in Japan. He also compiled, edited, and wrote commentaries on the classics, drama, fiction, and even almanacs. In the 1590s-1620s, his reputation was such that commercial publishers in Fujian and Nanjing published his writings, although occasionally he financed the printing of his own books. His works completed by 1602 were published that year by the Nanjing publishing house Guangqi Tang. Xu criticized the common practice of including prefaces written by renowned authors to increase the value of a book and thus wrote the prefaces for most of his own books, which in part may explain the short duration of his fame and his later obscurity. This book has a seal impression with the name Fujinami, a Japanese collector. World Digital Library.
Names
- Xu, Fenpeng, active 16th century-17th century
- Yu, Jiquan, active 16th century-17th century, ke
- Xu, Zhixiao, active 16th century-17th century, xu
- Xu, Jixuan, active 16th century-17th century, xu
- Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- [Jianyang] : Yu Jiquan, Ming Wanli ren zi [40 nian, 1612]
Headings
- - Si shu
- - Jing bu--Si shu lei--Si shu zong yi
- - 四書
- - 經部--四書類--四書總義
Notes
- - Also available in digital form.
- - In case.
- - 原題；「松塢里徐奮鵬棲筆架山房著。」按臨川縣志：「奮鵬自溟。年十八，每試冠軍，湯顯祖為之延譽。講道授徒，部議欲徵入內校書，以忌者沮抑，不果。提學駱日聲陳懋德賢欲上其書於朝，而春秋已高，無意當世。年八十二卒。學者稱為筆洞先生，」是書繁兩百餘條，專發明"四書"義，具書衣所載書林告白：奮鵬先生有"四書蠡測""辯俗"及"甕天論"，至是為四續矣，題為"筆洞生近見"。余志曉為題作"四書近見錄"以副其實。卷內有：「藤波家藏書」印記。余志曉序 萬曆四十年(1612) 余繼泉序 萬曆四十年(1612).
- - 封面鐫"四續筆洞先生近悟語".
- - 框21 x 11.8公分, 6行16字, 白口, 四周單邊, 無魚尾, 無行格. 版心上鐫"近見"及卷次.
- - 紙張頗黃.
- - 萬曆壬子余志曉"四書近見錄序"及同年余繼泉"序"均言刻書事.
Medium
- 4 v. ; 25 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- PL2463.Z6
Library of Congress Control Number
- 00694865
Online Format
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