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during the Jiaqing reign period (1796-1820), the Vice Minister Jiang Yuanting
If% 5tM (1755-1819) published an enlarged version containing 173 texts, all of
which were also found in the Daozang. TheJiyao was reedited once or twice in
the nineteenth century and in the process ninety-six texts were added, bringing
the total number of texts to 269. The current edition was published in 1906
by He Longxiang ~ rnum and Peng Hanran ~ mJ ~ at the Erxian an = {ill
~ (Hermitage of the Two Immortals), part of the *Qingyang gong (Palace
of the Black Ram) in Chengdu (Sichuan). Their edition, known as Chongkan
Daozang jiyao ]I! tiJ j]hiif~ ~, added eighteen more works for a total of 287
texts. He and Peng also supplied five indexes and eighteen bibliographies of
Taoist works drawn from various sources. Taking these into account, the Jiyao
would contain 3IO titles.
A different reconstruction is provided in Zhongguo daojiao shi (History of
Chinese Taoism; Qing Xitai 1988--95, 4: 455-65). The original collection edited
by Peng Dingqiu contained 200 texts, all of which were found in the Daozang.
Jiang Yuanting added seventy-nine texts, not found in the Daozang; and the
reedition by He Longxiang and Peng Hanran supplied seventeen more texts,
bringing the total to 296. Including indexes and bibliographies, the Daozang
jiyao would contain altogether 319 titles.
Both accounts appear to be only partly reliable. In particular, there seems
to be no trace-either material or bibliographic-of Peng Dingqiu's original
compilation, and no evidence is provided in Zhongguo daojiao shi for the state-
ment that it included 200 titles. The authors of Zhongguo daojiao shi arrive at
this number based on a catalogue of Jiang Yuanting's edition CDaozangjiyao
zongmu" @:M:rVI!.&Jf~@ B) included in Ding Fubao's T:fflI{¥: *Daozangjinghua
lu. While this catalogue does list 279 titles, the seventy-nine supposedly ad-
ditional titles (Qing Xitai 1988-95, 4: 456-59) derive from a list of Daozangjiyao
texts not found in the Daozang, which is appended to the Harvard-Yenching
index of the Daozang (Weng Dujian 1935; see Qing Xitai 1988-95, 4: 465). That
list is not entirely dependable (to give one example, the first text cited in Qing
Xitai 1988--95, 4: 456 corresponds to CT 7). As for the seventeen texts indicated
in Zhongguo daojiao shi as having been added in 1906, the list provided by He
Longxiang and Peng Hanran contains nineteen titles, but the last six of them
actually are not included in the collection. This list is printed in the 1906 edi-
tion as the third of three indexes to the version they edited:
I. A general index entitled "Chongkan Daozang jiyao zongmu" ]I! tiJ ilHl ~ ~
~@ §I (I: 12-34), with a preface signed by He Longxiang and dated 1906
2. An index containing the table of contents of each text included in the collection,
except for those added in 1906, entitled "Chongkan Daozangjiyao zimu chubian"
]I! trJ @jl~Jf+ §I i<}]i.)\ffl and consisting of four juan (1: 48- 214)