Wenguan cilin 文館詞林

Wenguan cilin 文館詞林 was an anthology of early Chinese poetry and prose texts compiled by Xu Jingzong 許敬宗 (592-672) and Liu Bozhuang 劉伯莊 (mid-7th cent.) during the early Tang period 唐 (618-907). The collection was finished in 657 and included texts from the Han 漢 (206 BCE-220 CE) to the early Tang. It had a total length of 1,000 juan and arranged the treasury of texts into ten categories or more. Most of the texts were not found in the official dynastic histories of famous earlier anthologies like Wenxuan 文選.

The texts were belonging to the literary genres of regular poems (shi 詩), eulogies (song 頌), stone inscriptions (bei碑), imperial edicts (zhao 詔), imperial orders (chi 敕), commands (ling 令), instructions (jiao 教), memorials (ce 策), accusations (tanshi 彈事), and biographies of literati (wenshi zhuan 文士傳).

The book was lost in the early Song period 宋 (960-1279), however, some fragments of a total length of 4 juan had survived in Japan that were included in Hayashi Taira's 林衡 (i.e. Hayashi Jūsai 林述斎, 1768-1841) series Isson sōsho 佚存叢書. This fragment collection is also found in the series Yueyatang congshu 粵雅堂叢書. Yang Shoujing 楊守敬 (1839-1915) was able to reconstruct a further lot of 19 juan, and Dong Kang 董康 (1867-1947) retrieved 5 more fascicles. Yang's fragments are included in Li Shouchang's 黎庶昌 (1837-1898) series Guyi congshu 古逸叢書. In 1914, Zhang Junheng 張鈞衡 (1872-1927) united the fragments and included the total of 28 juan in his own series Shiyuan congshu 適園叢書. Dong Kang himself published in 1924 an edition of 17 juan with the title Canben Wenguan cilin 殘本文館詞林.

The bibliographical chapter in the official dynastic history Xintangshu 新唐書 lists Cui Xuanwei's 崔玄暐 (639-706) commentary Xunzhu Wenguan cilin 訓注文館詞林, but it is lost.