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Title

  • Taiyang Zhou Xiao Hou miao zhi : shang ji liu juan xia ji yi juan

Other Title

  • 太洋洲蕭侯廟志 : 上集六卷, 下集一卷 /
  • Taiyang Xiao Hou miao zhi
  • Title on title page: Qie Taiyang Zhou Xiao Hou miao zhi
  • Qie Taiyang Zhou Xiao Hou miao zhi

Summary

  • Collection of documents about Xiao Hou, including Xiao hou miao tu, Xiao Hou zhuan (The biography of Xiaohou), orders and funeral oration from the Emperor, poems, and verse. Xiao Hou was regarded as the God of Rivers and Lakes according to the preface written by Zhu Shishou. However, it was recorded in this book that because Xiao hou saved Zhen from shipwreck on his journey to the Western oceans, Emperor Yongle conferred on him the title of Ying you Marquis. Thenceforth, Xiao Hou has been praised and worshiped by seamen and traders as the God of Oceans.
  • This work was compiled by Guo Zizhang (1543-1618) and edited and printed by Gan Yinqiu. After Guo received his jin shi degree in 1571, he held various posts, including those of minister of the Bureau of War, censor-in-chief, and the junior guardian of the heir apparent. Guo also had extensive knowledge of history, military strategy, literature, and medicine and was the author of a number of local histories. Shown here is the only extant copy of this work, issued in the second year of the Tianqi reign (1622). It has seven juan, in two parts, in one volume, and it contains many records on Xiao Hou (Marquis Xiao), including Xiao hou miao tu (Illustrated temple of Xiao Hou), Xiao hou zhuan (Biography of Xiao Hou), and a number of imperial eulogies, records, biographies, notices, and verses. An illustration shows Marquis Xiao with his torch-like eyes sitting in the center, with six awe-inspiring guards standing on either side. According to the legends, Xiao Hou (circa 1324-1405), a native of Taiyangzhou, whose original name was Xiao Tianren, became a water god after death, as had his father and grandfather. Xiao's divine exploits are recorded here. It was said that in 1419 he appeared as the sea god to rescue sailors in distress during their voyage to the western seas--a reference to one of the voyages of Zheng He (1371-1433) who led fleets to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa in 1405-33. The Ming emperor, Yongle (reigned 1403-24), later bestowed on Xiao the honorific title of Ying you hou (Brave Ocean Protector). Xiao Hou was worshipped by sea merchants and couriers over the centuries. A number of Marquis Xiao temples, built or renovated up to the 1920s, commemorated three generations of the Xiao family. This work documents the temple in Taiyangzhou Zhen, Xin'gan Xian, Jiangxi Province, and it provides much information on Chinese folk religion there. The preface, dated 1622, was written by Zhu Shishou, also a native of Jiangxi and a member of the Donglin movement, a group of Chinese scholars and officials in the late Ming dynasty who attempted to combat the moral laxity and intellectual weakness they felt was undermining public life. The woodblock printing is of high, refined quality. World Digital Library.

Names

  • Guo, Zizhang, 1542-1618, ji
  • Zhu, Shishou, xu
  • Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Ji'an Fu Yongxin Xian : Gan Shi, Ming Tianqi 2 nian [1622]

Notes

  • -  In case.
  • -  Also available in digital form.
  • -  .明天啟二年刻本; 壬戌吉安府永新縣甘氏刻本。線裝. Ming woodblock, threadbound edition, printed by Gan shi from Yongxi County in 1622.
  • -  十行二十字. 版匡高22.8公分，寬14.7公分. Ten lines, with twenty characters per line. 22.8 cm. x 14.7 cm.
  • -  原題：「泰和郭子章相奎父輯，永新甘胤軋幼龍父校併梓」。按蕭侯諱天任，其先祥符人，宋咸淳中遷吉安。祖伯軒，愛淦江山水之勝遂去吉徙淦之太洋洲。祖孫父子，三世為神水府，其靈迹俱詳郭子意所撰太洋三蕭侯傳。禮部勘合稱：「都御史李奏述：永樂十七年朝廷曾內臣往西洋等處公幹節被風波險難，蕭公之神，即於海上雲中現影救護，海得脫險難。內臣使還，具奏文皇帝，褒封英佑侯，以為神職」，故英佑侯之名獨顯。是書下集為世系僅存一葉。卷六後有牌記，云：「天啟壬戍吉安府永新縣甘氏梓行」。序文及郭子章題額後，並有：「吉水羅應安刊」一行，刻藝頗精，不可不記。朱世守(序)天啟二年 (1622). 據目錄，此書有上下集。目錄詳列上集卷1-6内容，而於下集，只舉出卷1名目「蕭氏世系」、「李氏世系」。頗疑上集刻印時，下集内容未備；或下集竟未刊刻。此或為國會圖書館只收得上冊之故。上集卷1有「蕭侯廟圖」、「蕭侯廟圖讚」、「泰和郭司馬公三世仁侯扁」。卷2有「郭司馬公三蕭侯傳」、「永新甘文學蕭侯神蹟紀」。卷3有勑諭、御製祭文、「勘合」、「古蹟」。卷4有記、傳、序等文8篇。卷5有告文6篇。卷6有詩28家(末二家為永新甘胤虯、泰和郭子章).
  • -  紙張比較脆薄，掃描時應小心.

Medium

  • 1 v. : ill.

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2012402092

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Guo, Zizhang, Ji, Shishou Zhu, and Chinese Rare Book Collection. Taiyang Zhou Xiao Hou miao zhi: shang ji liu juan xia ji yi juan. [Ji'an Fu Yongxin Xian: Gan Shi, Ming Tianqi 2 nian, 1622] Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2012402092/.

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Guo, Z., Zhu, S. & Chinese Rare Book Collection. (1622) Taiyang Zhou Xiao Hou miao zhi: shang ji liu juan xia ji yi juan. [Ji'an Fu Yongxin Xian: Gan Shi, Ming Tianqi 2 nian] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2012402092/.

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Guo, Zizhang, Ji, Shishou Zhu, and Chinese Rare Book Collection. Taiyang Zhou Xiao Hou miao zhi: shang ji liu juan xia ji yi juan. [Ji'an Fu Yongxin Xian: Gan Shi, Ming Tianqi 2 nian, 1622] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2012402092/>.