Gongyang Zhuan

Gongyang Zhuan
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese公羊傳
Simplified Chinese公羊传
Literal meaningGongyang's Commentaries
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinGōngyáng zhuàn
Wade–GilesKung1-yang2 Chʻuan2
IPA[kʊ́ŋjǎŋ ʈʂwân]
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpinggung1 joeng4 zyun6
Middle Chinese
Middle Chinese/kuŋ jɨɐŋ ɖˠiuᴇn/
Old Chinese
Zhengzhang/*kloːŋ laŋ don/
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabetXuân Thu Công Dương truyện
Chữ Hán春秋公羊傳
Korean name
Hangul춘추공양전
Hanja春秋公羊傳
Transcriptions
Revised RomanizationChunchugongyangjeon
Japanese name
Kanji春秋公羊伝
Kanaしゅんじゅうくようでん
Transcriptions
RomanizationShinjū Kuyouden

The Gongyang Zhuan, also known as the Gongyang Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals or the Commentary of Gongyang, is a commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals, and is thus one of the Chinese classics. Along with the Zuo Zhuan and the Guliang Zhuan, the work is one of the Three Commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals.[1] In particular, Gongyang Zhuan is a central work to New Text Confucianism (今文經學), which advocates Confucius as an institutional reformer instead of a respected scholar, and Chunqiu as an embodiment of Confucius' holistic vision on political, social, and moral issues instead of a merely chronicle. Gongyang Zhuan significantly influenced the political institution in Han dynasty. It fell out of favor among elites and was eventually replaced by the Zuo Zhuan. Gongyang Zhuan scholarship was reinvigorated in late Ming dynasty and became a major source of inspiration for Chinese reformers from the eighteenth to early twentieth century.

Sima Qian states that Mencius, Gongsun Gu, Xunzi and Han Fei often drew on the Gongyang, while actually they drew on commentaries similar to what we now call the Zuozhuan; for him the distinction was meaningless.[2]

  1. ^ Schaberg, David (2017). "Chapter 12: Classics (Jing 經)". In Denecke, Wiebke; Li, Wai-Yee; Tian, Xiaofei (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature (1000 BCE-900CE). New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 176–178.
  2. ^ Liang Cai The Journal of the American Oriental Society. 131.3 (July–September 2011): p371. Excavating the genealogy of classical studies in the western Han dynasty (206 B.C.E.-8 C.E.)