Jinxian huiyan 今獻彙言

Jinxian huiyan 今獻彙言 "Assembled words of modern Writings", originally written 今獻會言, is a series of collectanea (congshu 叢書) compiled by the Ming-period 明 (1368-1644) scholar Gao Mingfeng 高鳴鳳. It is not known when and why the character for the word hui "assembled" in the title of the series was changed from 會 to 彙.

The series includes 25 books with a total length of 25 juan. All of these writings were compiled during the Ming period, which gave the series its title. The bibliographic treatise Yiwen zhi 藝文志 (ch. 96-99) in the official dynastic history Mingshi 明史 speaks of a length of 28 juan, yet the Jinxian huiyan mentioned in the descriptive catalogue to the imperial series Siku quanshu 四庫全書 is only 8-juan long.

A surviving print from the Wanli reign-period 萬曆 (1573-1619) kept in the Beijing Library 北京圖書館, and the version in the series Yingyin Yuan-Ming shanben congshu shi zhong 影印元明善本叢書十種 published by the Shanghai Commercial Press 上海商務印書館 in 1937 both include 25 writings. Surprisingly enough, the version included in the Congshu jicheng chubian mulu 叢書集成初編目錄 is 39-juan long, each juan representing a separate writing.

The Jinxian huiyan includes various "brush note" (biji 筆記)-style essays, and also some writings of early Ming Neo-Confucianism, like the book Zhengxuebian 正學編 by Chen Chen 陳琛 (1477-1545). Part of the writings are very rare geographic and historiographic treatises.