Yuxia Ji: attributed authorship and identifiable expanded editions

Revised 2026-10-24: identified specific expanded editions and removed unsupported universal contents lists and assumptions about website features.

*Yuxia Ji* (玉匣記) is commonly used for a family of folk almanac and divination texts. The short title alone cannot establish author, chapter count or original composition date.

Editions that can be identified

The Taiwan eBook database record for Zengguang Yuxia Ji names the Xingxiang Research Society as compiler, Chunming Bookstore in Shanghai as publisher, and 1947 as the date of its sixth edition; it has 105 pages. This identifies one modern edition, not the origin of the entire textual tradition.

A National Library of China scan of Zengguang Yuxia Ji Jiayong Mishu, mirrored on Commons, names Zhu Shuolin (Yuchou) as reviser and Shanghai's Hongwen Shuju as publisher. The listed contents include “Xu Zhenjun Yuxia Ji” and “Fashi Xuanze Ji.” Such headings show that a volume may combine separately attributed material; a reviser is not necessarily its original author.

What the Xu Zhenjun attribution establishes

Xu Zhenjun conventionally refers to Xu Xun. A traditional heading in his name does not demonstrate that the surviving compilation was written in full by him during the Jin dynasty. Printed attributions, later compilation and an authenticated author history must be kept separate.

The prefatory documents of Xieji Bianfang Shu criticize and remove some earlier claims attributed to Xu Zhenjun's *Yuxia Ji*. This is a Qing editorial judgment, not a verdict on every surviving edition, but it shows why the two works cannot simply be merged as mutually consistent authorities.

Check the actual edition before saying it contains a particular dream, bodily-omen, marriage or ritual entry. This revision verifies bibliographical information and visible headings, not every page of every witness or the earliest composition date. Historical accounts of omens and ritual remedies are not medical evidence or proof of causal efficacy.

LamjinLab's date-selection tool is a related learning resource. Its stated data coverage, rather than this book's title, determines which material it implements.

Sources checked

• Taiwan eBook database, NCL-9910006988: 1947 sixth edition and publication responsibilities.
• Zengguang Yuxia Ji Jiayong Mishu scan and description: revision attribution and listed headings.
• Xieji Bianfang Shu, Siku prefatory documents: contemporary criticism of related claims.