Zhu Wenji
 T of C 
Home 		My
Work		 Hand-
books		 Qin as
Object		 Qin in
Art		 Poetry
/ Song		 Hear,
Watch		 Play
Qin		 Analysis History Ideo-
logy		 Miscel-
lanea		 More
Info		 Personal email me search me
Bios       網站目錄
Zhu Wenji
- Qin Shi #142		 朱文濟 1
琴史 #142 2

The biography of Zhu Wenji is told together with that of his opponent, a fellow "daizhao" (a Hanlin academy rank, in this case apparently specializing in qin3) named Zhao Yi.4 The story of Zhu Wenji showing the Song Taizong emperor (reigned 976-992) that the seven string qin could do everything the nine-string qin could do is also related in Chapter 6a1 of Xu Jian's history.

Read here, however, for a comment suggesting that the nine-string qin failed because it was used only to play melodies within the traditional style, not to develop new music.

Zhu Wenji was the qin teacher of Yi Zhong. Yi Zhong, as the teacher of Zhi Bai and Yi Hai, could be considered the founder of the Northern Song's "qin monk faction".5

Qinshu Cunmu, Folio 3, #3, lists a handbook, Qin Zadiaopu, attributed to Zhu Wenji in the Song Chronicles, but it has no further information.

Zhu Wenji is also mentioned in QSDQ. See,

Folio 17, #37.
Folio 17, #45.

The original Qin Shi essay begins as follows.

Zhu Wenji and Zhao Yi were both good qin players. They were daizhao when the Song Taizong emperor (r.976 - 998) designed a nine-string qin and a five string ruan lute. Zhao Yi said it was a good idea, Zhu Wenji considered it unacceptable. The emperor said, Wen Wang and Wu Wang each added a string. Why can I not also?....

Further details in preparation. 6

 
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)

1. Zhu Wenji 朱文濟
Bio/xxx; 14779.xxx. 文濟 13766.855xxx (Ming dynasty) (Return)

2. 7 lines
(Return)

3. For qin daizhao see QSCB, Chapter 6a1.
(Return)

4. Zhao Yi 趙裔
Bio. 1642 趙裔 concerns a noted painter of the Later Liang dynasty (907 - 923).
(Return)

5. 琴僧系統 qin monk faction
(Return)

6. Zhu Wenji Qin Shi entry
The original text is:

朱文濟趙裔
朱文濟、趙裔，皆善鼓琴。昔待詔太宗之時，帝方作九弦之琴，五弦之阮，裔以為宜增，文濟以為不可。帝曰：「古琴五弦，文武增之，何為而不可？」於是遂增琴阮弦，賜裔以緋，且遣使劍南、兩川，獲餉甚厚，以賞其贊助之勤，而文濟執前論不奪，上不以其不達為譴，而嘉其有守，亦命賜緋。文濟性衝澹，不好榮利，唯以絲桐自娛，而風骨清秀若神仙中人，上令供奉僧元靄寫真留禁中。

Translation incomplete.
(Return)

 

Return to QSCB, or to the Guqin ToC.