Dili Bianzheng 地理辨正 original
Rectification of Geography: the canon the Qing Xuankong master Jiang Dahong built — a curated anthology of the line's core texts, plus the most famous forgery-hunt in the tradition's history.
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Identity card
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | 地理辨正 Dili Bianzheng ("Rectification of Geography") |
attributed_author | Supplemented and transmitted by Jiang Pingjie 蔣平階 (courtesy name Dahong 大鴻, Qing); collated by his student Jiang Yao 姜垚 of Kuaiji 會稽 |
attribution_status | original 原著 — a Qing compilation whose editors are securely named. (It is an anthology: the texts it carries carry their own attribution problems, itemised below.) |
| School | Three-Cycle Xuankong 三元玄空 |
| Full text | ctext.org full text · Shidian Guji: Dili Bianzheng Zhijie 直解 (juan 4 view) |
What it contains
Per the collation register, the works it assembles:
- 青囊經, upper, middle and lower — see the 青囊經 entry
- 青囊序 Qingnang Xu
- 青囊奧語 — see the 青囊奧語 entry
- 天玉經 — see the 天玉經 entry
- 都天寶照經, upper and middle
- Juan 5: 平砂玉尺辨偽 "On the Spuriousness of the Pingsha Yuchi" — opening 「地理多偽書，平砂玉尺者，偽之尤者也」 ("geography abounds in forged books, and the Pingsha Yuchi is the worst of them")
The forgery trial in juan 5
Juan 5 is not scripture but prosecution. Jiang Dahong attacks the 玉尺經 — which the Siku cataloguers independently judged a Ming forgery — and in doing so wired one of the tradition's deepest fault lines: the Three Harmony 三合 camp's pillar text, formally condemned by the Three-Cycle camp's editor. Both sides of that polemic are documented in this register; neither is adjudicated here. Lineage-level disagreements that still affect computed output are logged in the School Dispute Register.
Where it sits in the tradition
Matrix row: Three-Cycle 三元 main body ◎, Form 形巒 partial ○. Through this anthology the Qing Xuankong line defined which old texts counted as its scripture — a canon-making act, which is why the attribution status of each component text must be read individually rather than inherited from the anthology.
Related
青囊經 · 青囊奧語 · 天玉經 · 玉尺經 (the accused) · 沈氏玄空學 · full register