 Cover of an 1895 printed edition of the Kongzi Jiayu | |
| Author | Kong Anguo (attributed) Wang Su (editor) |
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| Original title | 孔子家語 |
| Language | Classical Chinese |
| Subject | Sayings of Confucius |
| Publication place | Han China |
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| Traditional Chinese | 孔子家語 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 孔子家语 | ||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Master Kong's school sayings | ||||||||||||||
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The Kongzi Jiayu (Chinese: 孔子家語), translated as The School Sayings of Confucius[1] or Family Sayings of Confucius,[2] is a collection of sayings of Confucius (Kongzi), written as a supplement to the Analects (Lunyu).[3]
A book by the title had existed since at least the early Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD), and was listed in the 1st-century imperial bibliography Yiwenzhi with 27 scrolls. The extant version, however, was thought by later scholars to have been compiled by the Cao Wei official-scholar Wang Su (195–256 AD), and contains 10 scrolls and 44 sections.[4] Thus, Chinese scholars had long concluded that the received text was a 3rd-century forgery by Wang Su that had nothing to do with the original text of the same title.[3] However, this verdict has been overturned by archaeological discoveries of Western Han dynasty tombs at Dingzhou (55 BC) and Shuanggudui (165 BC).[4]
- ^ Kramers 1950.
- ^ Shen 2013, p. 87.
- ^ a b Kramers 1950, p. 2.
- ^ a b 中國歷代對《孔子家語》的研究. Culture China (in Chinese). 2010-04-22. Archived from the original on 2017-03-23. Retrieved 2017-03-22.