Instantiating the Genealogy of the Way: Spirit-Writing in the Construction of Peng Dingqiuâs Confucian Pantheon

Daniel Burton-Rose

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This article reframes existing scholarship on self-identified Confucian spirit-writing altars by shifting their origin from the mid-nineteenth to the late seventeenth century. It does so by examining Confucian discourse in the spirit-writing corpus of Peng Dingqiu å½å®æ± (1645â1719). Best known as the editor of the Quan Tang shi å¨åè©© (Complete Poetry of the Tang), Peng also produced the largest surviving archive of spirt-altar communications from the early Qing dynasty. Of the twenty-spirit altar deities with whom he communicated, among the most prolific were prominent Confucians from the Song and Ming dynasties. This article examines these communications by Confucian spirit-altar deities in the context of the Kangxi emperorâs endorsement of Cheng-Zhu Learning. It demonstrates how spirit-altar communications preceded Dingqiuâs anthologization of the historically attested works of several of these spirit-altar deities in his frequently reprinted Rumen fa yu åéæ³èª (Model words of the Confucian school, preface 1697). Rather than treating the âthoughtâ of Confucian spirit-altar deities in isolation, the article also considers the Daoist ritual training Dingqiu brought to spirit-writing and the private academy space in which he repeated performed a penance ritual received via spirit-writing with students from the nearby official county school.

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Communicating with the Gods

Spirit-Writing in Chinese History and Society

Series:Â Prognostication in History, Volume: 11

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004677906

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 25 Sep 2023

Subjects
- Asian Studies
  - East Asia
  - China
  - Religion
  - Philosophy
- Religious Studies
  - Religion in Asia

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Part 1 Overview Papers

Part 2 Changing Techniques and Practices

Part 3 Spirit-Writing and the Literati Elites in Late Imperial China

Part 4 Spirit-Writing and Redemptive Societies

Part 5 Local Communities and Transregional Networks

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