Zhu Quan

TimelineCBDB

1. 1391 寧王 洪武

Office recordsCBDB

FamilyCBDB

AliasesCBDB

• 丹丘先生 室名、別號
• 仙 室名、別號
• 十七子 行第
• 大明奇士 室名、別號
• 寧獻王 室名、別號
• 寧王 封爵
• 涵虛子 室名、別號
• 獻 諡號
• 神隱 室名、別號
• 臞仙 室名、別號
• 臞僊 室名、別號

StatusCBDB

• 畫家
• 詩人
• 習於道術
• 戲曲作家
• 曲譜曲韻作家
• 宗子
• 卜筮者（太乙、軌革、六壬、遁甲等）
• 醫學

AssociationsCBDB

ExaminationsCBDB

WorksCBDB

Citations

1. [1] Name, dates, and status Zhu Quan lived from 1378 to 1448 and was a Ming imperial prince.
   • CBDBZhu Quan (30166)The main entry gives Zhu Quan's name, birth year, death year, and Ming affiliation.
   • Souyun朱權 (47073)The biographical entry gives his name, dates, and Ming-dynasty identity.
   • WikidataZhu Quan (Q985448)The entity is labelled Zhu Quan and described as a Ming dynasty prince who lived from 1378 to 1448.
2. [2] Parentage Zhu Quan was the seventeenth son of the Hongwu Emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang.
   • CBDBZhu Quan (30166)The kinship entry identifies Zhu Yuanzhang as his father.
   • Souyun朱權 (47073)The biographical text calls him the seventeenth son of Ming Taizu, the Hongwu Emperor.
3. [3] Places of origin and residence The associated place entries give Daxing and Nanchang as places of origin and Jiangning as an earlier residence.
   • CBDBZhu Quan (30166)The address entries list Daxing, Jiangning, and Nanchang and distinguish origin, migration, and earlier-residence categories.
4. [4] Enfeoffment at Danning In 1391, Zhu Quan was enfeoffed as Prince of Ning, with Danning as his domain.
   • CBDBZhu Quan (30166)The office and entry fields identify the Hongwu twenty-fourth year, 1391, as the beginning of the Prince of Ning title and classify it as an initial princely enfeoffment.
   • Souyun朱權 (47073)Both biographical passages state that he was made Prince of Ning in the Hongwu twenty-fourth year and that his domain was Danning; the date link gives 1391.
5. [5] Residence at Danning The second biographical account dates his move to Danning to 1394, the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu.
   • Souyun朱權 (47073)The biographical passage says that he went to Danning in the twenty-seventh year; the date link identifies that year as 1394.
6. [6] Dating of the move to Nanchang The move or re-enfeoffment to Nanchang is dated differently in the two biographical passages, to 1403 or 1404.
   • Souyun朱權 (47073)The two passages disagree on the year of the move to Nanchang: one gives the first year of Yongle and the other the second; the date links map them to 1403 and 1404.
7. [7] Late-life withdrawal In later life Zhu Quan deliberately kept himself out of view.
   • Souyun朱權 (47073)The biographical passage says that in later life he deeply withdrew and concealed himself.
8. [8] Sobriquets His sobriquets included Quxian, with two character variants, Hanxuzi, and Danqiu Xiansheng, and he was also called Shenyin.
   • CBDBZhu Quan (30166)The alternative-name entries give Danqiu Xiansheng, Hanxuzi, Shenyin, Quxian, and the variant Quxian written with 僊.
   • Souyun朱權 (47073)The biographical passages give the Chinese forms 臞仙, 臒仙, 涵虛子, and 丹丘先生; the same body of text also describes his late-life sobriquets.
   • WikidataZhu Quan (Q985448)The English alias entries provide the romanized forms Damingqishi, Danqiu Xiansheng, Hanxuzi, Quxian, Shenyin, and Shiqizi; the cited subset matches the sobriquets in the text.
9. [9] Death and posthumous title Zhu Quan died in 1448, was given the posthumous title Xian, and was known as Prince Xian of Ning.
   • CBDBZhu Quan (30166)The main entry gives 1448 as the death year, while the alternative names include Ningxianwang and Xian.
   • Souyun朱權 (47073)The biographical passages give the posthumous title 獻 and place his death in the thirteenth year of Zhengtong; the date link identifies that year as 1448.
   • WikidataZhu Quan (Q985448)The entity claims include the posthumous-title value 獻王, and its aliases include Ningxianwang.
10. [10] Learning and fields of activity Zhu Quan was broadly learned, conversant with Buddhist and Daoist learning and particularly versed in history, with activities ranging from divination and cultivation to music, medicine, poetry, painting, opera, and musical notation and rhyme.
    • Souyun朱權 (47073)The biographical passages describe his extensive learning, knowledge of Buddhist and Daoist traditions, special interest in history, and engagement with divination, cultivation, the qin, and chess.
    • CBDBZhu Quan (30166)The status entries associate him with painting, poetry, opera, musical notation and rhyme, divination, and medicine.
11. [11] Appearance, objects, and early interests Descriptions portray Zhu Quan as fair-skinned and bearded, proud and fond of unusual things; they also preserve his childhood sobriquet, interests in divination, cultivation, the qin, and chess, and his manufacture of refined ritual and scholarly objects.
    • Souyun朱權 (47073)The biographical passage describes his appearance and temperament, gives the two written forms of his childhood self-designation, and mentions his interests and his finely made Boshan censer and ancient-tile inkstone.
    • CBDBZhu Quan (30166)The alternative-name entry supplies the form 大明奇士, which is paired in the text with the form 大明奇土.
12. [12] Poetic assessment and Cloud Studio anecdote A poetic assessment portrays him as arrogant and resentful on the strength of his Jingnan merits and cites his poem on the solar eclipse; it also recounts the Cloud Studio anecdote and its pairing with Prince Xian of Zhou's snow poem.
    • Souyun朱權 (47073)The poetic material links his arrogance and resentment to the Jingnan campaign and the solar-eclipse poem, and recounts bringing clouds from Mount Lu to Cloud Studio alongside the story of Prince Xian of Zhou's snow poem.
13. [13] Principal works His principal works include Han-Tang history, historical commentary, a qin tablature, an opera, and the poetry collection Cai zhi yin.
    • CBDBZhu Quan (30166)The work entries list Han Tang Mishi, Shenqi Mipu, Tongjian Bolun, and Cai zhi yin with their recorded juan counts.
    • Souyun朱權 (47073)The biographical passages explicitly name Han Tang Mishi, Tongjian Bolun, Shenqi Mipu, the opera Siben Xiangru, and Cai zhi yin in four juan.
14. [14] Authorship of Jingchai ji The authorship of Jingchai ji is disputed between Ke Danqiu of the Yuan and Zhu Quan in the assessment attributed to Wang Guowei.
    • Souyun朱權 (47073)The biographical passage gives the two attributions for Jingchai ji, assigning one to the Yuan writer Ke Danqiu and the other to Zhu Quan after Wang Guowei's examination.
15. [15] Additional bibliography The bibliography also lists twenty-two further titles, with the recorded juan counts where supplied.
    • CBDBZhu Quan (30166)The work entries list all of the titles named in this sentence and give the associated juan counts where present.
16. [16] Works explicitly marked as authored Four additional titles are explicitly marked as works authored by Zhu Quan: Quxian Shenyin, Fenxiang qiyao, Dili zhengyan, and Tianhuang zhidao taiching yuce.
    • CBDBZhu Quan (30166)The work entries mark all four titles as authored works and provide the recorded juan counts.