Gulouguan Anthology of Purple Cloud 古楼观紫云衍庆集

Compiled by Zhu Xiangxian in the Yuan Dynasty.

Three volumes, included in the Biographical Category of the Dongshen Section of the Daozang.

Gulouguan Anthology of Purple Cloud

This book compiles stone inscriptions from the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties and poems and odes by distinguished scholars preserved at Louguan Terrace in Shaanxi Province. The collected inscriptions include Record of the Zongsheng Guan of the Great Tang by Ouyang Xun of the Tang Dynasty, Stele of Reverend Yin of Tianshui by Yuan Bangan, Stele of the Miraculous Responses of Emperor Xuanyuan, the Sacred Ancestor of the Great Tang by Liu Tongsheng, as well as Record of the Reconstruction of Zongsheng Palace at the Ancient Louguan and Stele of the Daoist Deeds of True Man Yin, the Grand Master of Qinghe compiled by scholars of the Yuan Dynasty. The recorded poems and odes to Louguan by distinguished scholars of all dynasties include works by Wang Wei, Chu Guangxi, Lun Lun, Su Shi, Yin Zhiping and others. Stone inscriptions and poems composed by Zhu Xiangxian himself are also included in this book.