Nantang shiyi ji 南唐拾遺記

Nantang shiyi ji 南唐拾遺記 is a history of the Southern Tang dynasty 南唐 (937-975) compiled during the early Qing period 清 (1644-1911) by Mao Xianshu 毛先舒 (1620-1688), courtesy name Zhihuang 椎黃, later called Kui 騤, courtesy name Chihuang 馳黃, from Renhe 仁和 (today part of Hangzhou 杭州, Zhejiang).

Mao was a good poet and phonologist, but never obtained an office. Together with Mao Qiling 毛奇齡 (1623-1716) and Mao Jike 毛際可 (1633-1708), he was one of the three great literati in the province of Zhejiang of the time. Mao is credited with numerous scholarly books, like Shengyun congshuo 聲韻叢說, Yunxue tongzhi 韻學通指, Kuangchuang yishu 匡床異書, Shengxue zhenyu 聖學真語, Xiaokuang wenchao 小匡文鈔, Luofeng shuolu 螺峰說錄, Dongyuan shiwen chao 東苑詩文抄, Ruiyun 蕊雲 and Wanchang zhuji 晚唱諸集. His collected writings are called Sigutang ji 思古堂集.

The preface to the Nanting shiyi ji states that the book draws on various accounts from Song-period 宋 (960-1279) writings and other materials not recorded in the official histories. The author recommends to use his account to supplement other books on the Southern Tang dynasty, like Ma Ling's 馬令 (fl. 1105) Mashi Nantangshu 馬氏南唐書, Lu You's 陸游 (1125-1210) Lushi Nantangshu 陸氏南唐書, Zheng Wenbao's 鄭文寶 (953-1013) Nantang jinshi 南唐近事, Chen Pengnian's 陳彭年 (961－1017) Jiangnan bielu 江南別錄 or Chen Ting's 陳霆 (jinshi degree 1502) Tangyu jizhuan 唐餘紀傳. In reality, however, all of these are things seen in many books, and there is not a single unusual or novel anecdote among them.

The text is, nonetheless, included in the series Xuehai leibian 學海類編, Zhaodai congshu 昭代叢書 and Congshu jicheng chubian 叢書集成初編.