Classical Texts Register 典籍總表 28 titles

Twenty-eight fengshui (kanyu 堪輿) texts, collated for attribution, era, content and school affiliation — including the ones tradition gets wrong about its own authors.

Opened 2026-10-10 · first-hand basis: 《欽定四庫全書總目》 Siku Quanshu Zongmu (Imperial Catalogue), vols. 109–111 · every claim below comes from our collation register; nothing is added from memory.

Editorial principle: every entry carries two separate fields — attributed_author (the author tradition assigns) and attribution_status (what the collation actually supports: original work 原著, pseudo-epigraphic 偽托, doubtful 存疑, or falsely ascribed 托名). We never write "Guo Pu wrote the Zangshu": the Siku cataloguers examined that claim in 卷109 and concluded the received 《葬書》 is a Song-era composition attributed to him. Where a verdict exists in the catalogue, we quote it; where none is recorded in our register, we say so rather than invent one.

How to read the badges

Badge	`attribution_status`	Meaning
original 原著	original / securely ascribed	Authorship (or imperial compilation) is attested without a competing verdict in our register.
doubtful 存疑	doubtful	Attribution cannot be settled — e.g. the catalogue says a text "only surfaces in the Song" 「至宋始出」, or the attributed author's dates are unverified.
falsely ascribed 偽托／托名	pseudo-epigraphic / falsely ascribed	The catalogue (or the collation) explicitly judges the attribution spurious — e.g. 「是書蓋依托也」.

Doubt and spuriousness are different verdicts and are never merged. doubtful means "unresolved"; falsely ascribed means "resolved, against the attribution".

The core twenty 核心二十種

#	Title	Usual English name	Era	School	Attribution
1	葬書（葬經） Zangshu → entry	Book of Burial	attr. Jin; received text cut by Song–Yuan editors	Form 形巒 — founding text of both later lineages	falsely ascribed — Song-era (per Siku)
2	青囊經 Qingnang Jing → entry	Green Satchel Classic	attr. ancient (黃石公); received text with Qing commentary	Three-Cycle Xuankong 三元玄空 — theoretical framework	doubtful
3	青囊奧語 Qingnang Aoyu → entry	Esoteric Sayings of the Green Satchel	attr. Tang; "surfaces only in the Song" (Siku)	Three-Cycle liqi 理氣 — fountainhead	doubtful
4	天玉經 Tianyu Jing → entry	Heavenly Jade Classic	attr. Tang; "surfaces only in the Song" (Siku)	Three-Cycle Xuankong 三元玄空	doubtful
5	都天寶照經 Dutian Baozhao Jing	Treasured Illumination Classic	attr. Tang 楊筠松; transmitted with Qing supplement	Three-Cycle Xuankong (plain-terrain 平洋)	doubtful — old attribution unverified
6	催官篇 Cui Guan Pian → entry	Prompting Officialdom	Song — Lai Wenjun 賴文俊	Three Harmony / asterism 三合／天星 (pure-yin pure-yang)	original — catalogued, no dissent
7	雪心賦 Xuexin Fu	Rhapsody on the Snowy Heart	Tang — Bu Yingtian 卜應天; Ming annotation	Form 形巒	original
8	地理五訣 Dili Wujue	Five Formulae of Geography	Qing — Zhao Tingdong 趙廷棟; 1880 ed.	Three Harmony 三合 (Four Major Water Gates)	original
9	陽宅三要 Yangzhai San Yao → entry	Three Essentials of the Yang Dwelling	Qing — Zhao Jiufeng 趙九峰	Eight Mansions 八宅	original
10	陽宅十書 Yangzhai Shishu	Ten Books on Yang Dwellings	Ming — Wang Junrong 王君榮; 1882 ed.	Eight Mansions + form miscellany	original
11	八宅明鏡 Bazhai Mingjing → entry	Bright Mirror of the Eight Mansions	Qing — Ruoguan Daoren 箬冠道人; commercial eds. mis-attribute to Yang	Eight Mansions 八宅	falsely ascribed — Yang attribution unverified
12	沈氏玄空學 Shen Shi Xuankong Xue → entry	Shen's Xuankong Studies	late Qing — Shen Shaoxun 沈紹勳 (1849–1906), posthumously compiled	Three-Cycle Xuankong 三元玄空 (flying stars)	original — compiled by son and students
13	地理辨正 Dili Bianzheng → entry	Rectification of Geography	Qing — Jiang Pingjie 蔣平階 (supplement), Jiang Yao 姜垚 (collation)	Three-Cycle Xuankong 三元玄空	original
14	宅經（黃帝宅經） Zhai Jing → entry	Classic of the Dwelling	attributed to the Yellow Emperor	Eight Mansions / dwelling divination — fountainhead	falsely ascribed (per Siku)
15	魯班經（魯班經匠家鏡） Luban Jing	Lu Ban's Classic: The Craftsman's Mirror	Ming — compiled by Wu Rong 午榮; Wanli-era ed.	Form / building lore 形法／營造	original
16	欽定協紀辨方書 Xieji Bianfang Shu → entry	Imperially Commissioned Manual for Harmonising Seasons and Discriminating Directions	Qing 1741, imperial commission; 36 juan	Date selection 擇日 — official compendium	original — imperial compilation
17	選擇宗鏡 Xuanze Zongjing	Principal Mirror of Date Selection	Ming compilation — now attributed to Wu Tianhong 吳天洪	Date selection + mingzao 造命	falsely ascribed — "Yang Yunsong" is a vendor attribution
18	象吉通書 Xiangji Tongshu	Xiangji Complete Almanac	Qing, Kangxi era — Wei Jian 魏鑑 (biography unrecorded)	Date selection (almanac), with Three-Cycle material	original — compiler named; first-edition year unverified
19	鰲頭通書 Aotou Tongshu	Aotou Complete Almanac	Ming — compiled by Xiong Zongli 熊宗立; Qing revision	Date selection (almanac)	doubtful — compiler's dates (1409–1482) unverified
20	永寧通書 Yongning Tongshu	Yongning Complete Almanac	Qing — Wang Weide 王維德 (1669–1749); earliest recorded ed. 1800	Date selection + Eight Mansions (dwellings)	original

The further eight 另八種

#	Title	Usual English name	Era	School	Attribution
21	入地眼全書 Rudayan Quanshu	Complete Book of the Earth-Entering Eye	attr. Song — monk Jingdao 釋靜道 (= 辜托長老); Song dating rests only on Qing prefaces; earliest ed. 1821	Form 巒頭 + Three Harmony nine-star; Eight Mansions for dwellings	doubtful
22	地理人子須知 Renzi Xuzhi	What a Son Must Know: Geography	Ming — Xu Weizhi 徐維志 & Xu Weishi 徐維事; expanded 1583	Form 形巒 / Jiangxi line	original
23	堪輿漫興 Kanyu Manxing	Casual Verses on Kanyu	attr. Ming — Liu Ji 劉基	Form 形巒 (verse form, no liqi)	doubtful — nowadays mostly judged spurious
24	發微論 Fawei Lun	Treatise on Elucidating the Subtle	attr. Song — Cai Yuanding 蔡元定 (Siku: possibly his father Cai Fa)	Form theory 形巒理論	doubtful — attribution kept per Siku practice
25	玉尺經（平砂玉尺經） Yuchi Jing → entry	Jade Ruler Classic	attr. Yuan — Liu Bingzhong 劉秉忠, with Ming "Liu Ji" notes; Siku: Ming forgery	Three Harmony 三合 — its pillar text	falsely ascribed — Ming (per Siku)
26	天機素書 Tianji Su Shu	Plain Book of the Celestial Mechanism	attr. Tang — Qiu Yanhan 邱延翰; Siku: Ming forgery	Form (dragon-seeking) with asterism material	falsely ascribed — Ming (per Siku)
27	山洋指迷 Shanyang Zhimi	Pointing the Way through Mountains and Plains	Ming — Zhou Jingyi 周景一; first complete ed. 1787	Form 形巒 (three juan mountains, one juan plains)	original
28	地理啖蔗錄 Dianzhe Lu	Tasting the Sugarcane: Records of Geography	Qing — Yuan Shouding 袁守定; written Qianlong era	Form 形巒	original — first-edition year unverified

School affiliation matrix 流派歸屬

Compiled from the collation register's cross-classification. ◎ main body · ○ partial · △ minor · × absent.

Title	Three Harmony 三合	Three-Cycle 三元	Eight Mansions 八宅	Form 形巒	Date selection 擇日／通書
葬書、雪心賦、人子須知、堪輿漫興、發微論、天機素書、山洋指迷、啖蔗錄	×	×	×	◎	×
催官篇	◎	×	×	○	×
青囊經、青囊奧語、天玉經、都天寶照經、地理辨正、沈氏玄空學	×	◎	×	○	×
地理五訣、玉尺經	◎	×	×	○	×
宅經、陽宅三要、陽宅十書、八宅明鏡	×	×	◎	○	×
入地眼全書	○	△	○ (dwellings)	◎	×
魯班經	×	×	○	◎	○
協紀辨方書、選擇宗鏡、象吉通書、鰲頭通書、永寧通書	×	△	○ (永寧)	×	◎

Detailed entries

Twelve titles have full entry pages with the dual attribution fields, Siku verdicts, content summaries and full-text links:

葬書 Book of Burial · 青囊經 · 青囊奧語 · 天玉經 · 催官篇 · 宅經 · 地理辨正 · 沈氏玄空學 · 陽宅三要 · 八宅明鏡 · 欽定協紀辨方書 · 玉尺經

Where the texts can be read

Open repositories verified reachable at collation time (HTTP 200): ctext.org (Chinese Text Project), zh.wikisource.org (Wikisource), shidianguji.com (Shidian Guji), kanripo.org, daizhige.org, archive.org. Per-title links are on the individual entry pages. Repositories that failed verification (unreachable, 404 or uncorrected OCR) are not cited.

No popularity claims: this register ranks nothing by search interest or fame. Inclusion means "collated and source-anchored", nothing else. Where our engine's implementation disputes touch a text (Xuankong replacement-star 替卦; Eight Mansions star derivations), the entry links to the School Dispute Register.