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HAN TlANSHI SHIJIA 471

Tianqiu }Ef] ](1* (I5I4- 95) to Zhang Guoxiang's expanded version of the Ran
tianshi shijia in a single folio (yizhi rjJ'}). An undated postface by Zhang Yuchu
and the I607 colophon of Zhang Guoxiang appear at the close of juan 4.
Zhang Yue ~ ~ (fl. ca. I5307) of Amen !Ji: 1= (Jiangxi) is named as collator at
the beginning of juan 2 in the text proper. He is identified as Vice Minister of
the Ministry of Works, with the prestige title of Grand Master for Thorough
Counsel (tongyi dafu jl!H~**). Immediately following this attribution is a
"Tianshi shizhuan yin" 7( Ifrlj illf,\!J iJ I (Introit to Biographies of the Celestial
Master Lineage). Internal evidence reveals that this introductory tribute was
authored by a contemporary of the forty-eighth Celestial Master Zhang Yan-
pian 5&~M (I48o-I550).
The length of individual biographies injuan 2- 4 ranges from a few lines to
several pages, with varying quantities of detail on the activities, writings, and
imperial entitlements of a patriarch. By far the most difficult to corroborate
are the shortest accounts for patriarchs whose lives and precise hereditary
status remain obscure. Longer accounts for early descendants, such as those for
the founding father Zhang Daoling and the thirtieth Celestial Master *Zhang
Jixian (I092- II26), can be equally problematic due to the accretion of fictive
lore from centuries of oral and written tradition.
The first thirty-five biographies may be compared with the corresponding
entries injuan I8- I9 of the *Lishi zhenxian tidao tongjian. Cognate collections
of biographies extending several generations later may be found in two to-
pographies of Mount Longhu. The Longhu shanzhi fl~m ill t; (Monograph
of Mount Longhu) includes accounts for altogether forty-five patriarchs, with
thirty-seven from the I3I4 edition compiled by Yuan Mingshan 5I; l}fl:g (I269-
I322) and eight added by Zhou Zhao ffll 13 after I445. Biographies for a total of
fifty-five generations are contained in the Chongxiu Longhu shanzhi ]I! f~ ~m LlJ
;t; (Recompiled Monograph of Mount Longhu) that *LouJinyuan (I689-I776)
completed in I740 on the basis of an earlier redaction by Zhang Yuchu.
Later descendants of the Celestial Master patriarchy have perpetuated the
legacy of the Ran tianshi shijia. The sixty-second Celestial Master *Zhang
Yuanxu (I862-I924) compiled the Bu Ran tianshi shijia :fm ~l7( gffi tit * (Supple-
mentary Lineage of the Han Celestial Master) in I9I8, with twelve biographies
for patriarchs spanning the fiftieth to the sixty-first generation. First published
in I934 by Oyanagi Shigeta, this supplement is also incorporated into the Lidai
Zhang tianshi zhuan liliHI:; ~ 7( gffi f,\!J (Biographies of Successive Generations
of Celestial Master Zhang) by the sixty-fourth patriarch Zhang Yuanxian 5&
~:5t (Taipei: Liuhe yinshua youxian gongsi, I977).
Judith M. BOLTZ

W Boltz J. M. I987a, 62- 64; Oyanagi Shigeta I934, 347- 56
* ZhangGuoxiang; Zhang Yuchu; ZhangZhengchang; Tianshi dao; Zhengyi