TEXTUAL RESEARCH OF THE TIME OF SU SHUNQIN OBESERVED MOURNING OBLIGATION IN SHANYANG

Shunqin was renowned poet in the Northern Song Dynasty but we knows few about his life story actually.The concrete time of having been in Shanyang to observe mourning for his morther,from the appendix biographical chronology of the authoritative monograph Su Shunqin Collection Edits Year School Note was decided in the spring of the second year of Qingli to the winter of the third year of Qingli;but according to his brother's poem,we can know they were still on the Huaihe in the spring of the second year of Qinli.Su Shunqin's Tokyo Buddhist Image Zen Temple Records and Ouyang Xiu's Release the Peru to Develop Poetry Anthology Foreword had the explicit time record,which may prove that Shunqin had been still in the national capital from the April of the second year of Qingli to the year's end.And according to Quyang Xiu's The Poem of Answering to Zimei leaving Capital and Sent and Shunqin's essay Narrating the New Floodgate in Lianshuijun's Building with the record of the Bian Ditch's navigation system in the Northern Song Dynasty,we may know Shunqin went to shanyang in the spring of the third year of Qingli.The time he left Shanyang for Kaifeng,according to the Bian Ditch's navigation system and Su'sThe Ninth Day in Kaifeng Ditch poem and so on,may be in the September of the third year of Qinli.