Yu Chu zhi 虞初志 "Stories of Yu Chu", also called Lushi Yu Chu zhi 陸氏虞初志, is a collectaneum
specialized on popular stories. It was compiled by a certain Master Lu
陸氏, probably Lu Cai 陸采 (Lu Ziyuan 陸子元), who lived during the Ming period 明 (1368-1644), came from Changzhou 長洲 (near modern Suzhou 蘇州, Jiangsu), and was a playwriter. His play Mingzhuji 明珠記 is theatre version of the Tang period 唐 (618-907) story Wushuangzhuan 無雙傳. He has also written the plays Nanxixiang 南西廂 and Huaixiangji 懷香記. The statement about Lu Cai's authorship can be found in the postface (ba 跋) to the collection Xu jiqieji 續齊諧記. The title of the collectaneum is derived from a Han period 漢 (206 BCE-220 CE)
story collection called Yu Chu Zhoushuo 虞初周說, which included 943 stories, but has not survived. It is listed in the imperial bibliography Yiwenzhi 藝文志 in the official dynastic history Hanshu 漢書. Yu Chu 虞初 was the compiler or author of this collection.
The original version of the collectaneum was 7 juan "scrolls" long, but there are also editions divided into 8 juan. The collection includes 29 chapters of ghost stories or narratives about supernatural events, of which 17 are taken from Liang period 梁 (502-557) writer Wu Jun 吳均 (author of the Xu qixieji), and the eight other books from the Tang period, with 16 stories from Xue Yongruo's 薛用弱 Jiyiji 集異記, and 7 individual stories.
The Yu Chu zhi is especially noteworthy because none of the stories included are to be found in the vast Song period 宋 (960-1279) encyclopedia Taiping yulan 太平廣記. The storied had been selected with great care, according to their literary quality and after a critical review of the text. It was highly praised by the writers Tu Long 屠隆, Tang Xianzu 湯顯祖 and Yuan Hongdao 袁宏道. One shortcoming of the Yu Chu zhi is that the compiler, as was custom during the Ming period, invented authors for texts that were written by unknown persons. The story Lihunji 離魂記 for instance was attributed to Wei Zhuang 韋莊, Zhenzhongji 枕中記 to Li Mi 李泌, and the Wushuangzhuan 無雙傳 to Pei Yue 裴說.
The Qing period 清 (1644-1911) writer Zhang Chao 張潮 has compiled a book called Yu Chu xinzhi 虞初新志.
The Yu Chu zhi itself is included in Zhou Zhongfu's 周中孚 collectaneum Zhengtang dushu ji 鄭堂讀書記, published in 1937 by the Commercial Press 商務印書館.
A book with the same title is attributed to the playwriter Tang Xianzu 湯顯祖 (1550-1617), author of the play Mudanting 牧丹停. His Yu Chu zhi includes 31 chapters and selects stories from Wu Jun's 吳均 Xu qijieji 續齊諧記, Wang Du's 王度 Gujingji 古鏡記, and quotes Zhang Mi's 張泌 stories Jiang Chen zhuan 蔣琛傳 and Wei Andao zhuan 韋安道傳, Li Chaowei's 李朝威 Liu Yi zhuan 柳毅傳, Chen Hong's 陳鴻 Changhenzhuan 長恨傳, the Zhenzhongji 枕中記 by Li Mi 李泌 (or Shen Jiji 沈既濟) and the story Yingying zhuan 鶯鶯傳, attributed to Yuan Zhen 元稹. The latter few stories were rewritten by Ming period authors and adapted to modern taste and the usefulness for the theatre stage. The collection is therefore helpful to investigate the history of playwriting during the Yuan 元 (1279-1368) and Ming periods, and their adaptation of older stories. Tang Xianzu's Yu Chu zhi was published in 1917 by the Saoye shanfang Studio 掃葉山房 in Shanghai.
zongmu p. 757 續齊諧記 集異記 虬髯客傳 周秦行記論 南柯記 廣陵妖亂志 鶯鶯傳 任氏傳 白猿傳
Sources:
Li Xueqin 李學勤, Lü Wenyu 呂文鬰 (1996). Siku da cidian 四庫大辭典, Changchun: Jilin daxue chubanshe, vol. 2, p. 2155.
Shanghai tushuguan 上海圖書館 (ed. 1982), Zhongguo congshu zonglu 中國叢書綜錄, vol 1, p. 757. Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe.
Wang Yunxi 王運熙 (1986). "Yuchuzhi 虞初志", in: Zhongguo da baike quanshu 中國大百科全書, Zhongguo wenxue 中國文學, Beijing/Shanghai: Zhongguo da baike quanshu chubanshe, vol. 2, p. 1181.
Wu Feng 吳楓 (ed. 1994). Zhonghua gu wenxian da cidian 中華古文獻大辭典, Wenxue 文學卷, Changchun: Jilin wenshi chubanshe, p. 710.
The original version of the collectaneum was 7 juan "scrolls" long, but there are also editions divided into 8 juan. The collection includes 29 chapters of ghost stories or narratives about supernatural events, of which 17 are taken from Liang period 梁 (502-557) writer Wu Jun 吳均 (author of the Xu qixieji), and the eight other books from the Tang period, with 16 stories from Xue Yongruo's 薛用弱 Jiyiji 集異記, and 7 individual stories.
The Yu Chu zhi is especially noteworthy because none of the stories included are to be found in the vast Song period 宋 (960-1279) encyclopedia Taiping yulan 太平廣記. The storied had been selected with great care, according to their literary quality and after a critical review of the text. It was highly praised by the writers Tu Long 屠隆, Tang Xianzu 湯顯祖 and Yuan Hongdao 袁宏道. One shortcoming of the Yu Chu zhi is that the compiler, as was custom during the Ming period, invented authors for texts that were written by unknown persons. The story Lihunji 離魂記 for instance was attributed to Wei Zhuang 韋莊, Zhenzhongji 枕中記 to Li Mi 李泌, and the Wushuangzhuan 無雙傳 to Pei Yue 裴說.
The Qing period 清 (1644-1911) writer Zhang Chao 張潮 has compiled a book called Yu Chu xinzhi 虞初新志.
The Yu Chu zhi itself is included in Zhou Zhongfu's 周中孚 collectaneum Zhengtang dushu ji 鄭堂讀書記, published in 1937 by the Commercial Press 商務印書館.
A book with the same title is attributed to the playwriter Tang Xianzu 湯顯祖 (1550-1617), author of the play Mudanting 牧丹停. His Yu Chu zhi includes 31 chapters and selects stories from Wu Jun's 吳均 Xu qijieji 續齊諧記, Wang Du's 王度 Gujingji 古鏡記, and quotes Zhang Mi's 張泌 stories Jiang Chen zhuan 蔣琛傳 and Wei Andao zhuan 韋安道傳, Li Chaowei's 李朝威 Liu Yi zhuan 柳毅傳, Chen Hong's 陳鴻 Changhenzhuan 長恨傳, the Zhenzhongji 枕中記 by Li Mi 李泌 (or Shen Jiji 沈既濟) and the story Yingying zhuan 鶯鶯傳, attributed to Yuan Zhen 元稹. The latter few stories were rewritten by Ming period authors and adapted to modern taste and the usefulness for the theatre stage. The collection is therefore helpful to investigate the history of playwriting during the Yuan 元 (1279-1368) and Ming periods, and their adaptation of older stories. Tang Xianzu's Yu Chu zhi was published in 1917 by the Saoye shanfang Studio 掃葉山房 in Shanghai.
zongmu p. 757 續齊諧記 集異記 虬髯客傳 周秦行記論 南柯記 廣陵妖亂志 鶯鶯傳 任氏傳 白猿傳
Sources:
Li Xueqin 李學勤, Lü Wenyu 呂文鬰 (1996). Siku da cidian 四庫大辭典, Changchun: Jilin daxue chubanshe, vol. 2, p. 2155.
Shanghai tushuguan 上海圖書館 (ed. 1982), Zhongguo congshu zonglu 中國叢書綜錄, vol 1, p. 757. Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe.
Wang Yunxi 王運熙 (1986). "Yuchuzhi 虞初志", in: Zhongguo da baike quanshu 中國大百科全書, Zhongguo wenxue 中國文學, Beijing/Shanghai: Zhongguo da baike quanshu chubanshe, vol. 2, p. 1181.
Wu Feng 吳楓 (ed. 1994). Zhonghua gu wenxian da cidian 中華古文獻大辭典, Wenxue 文學卷, Changchun: Jilin wenshi chubanshe, p. 710.
| 虞初志 Yuchuzhi (Ming) NN (comp.) | ||
| 書名, length in juan | Title | Author(s) |
| 一卷 | () NN | |
| Shanghai tushuguan 上海圖書館 (ed. 1982), Zhongguo congshu zonglu 中國叢書綜錄, vol 1, p. 757. Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe. | ||
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