Text of Confucianism Part 01

SR No.: 007675
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Legge
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1879
Total Pages: 2829
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 50 MB

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THE ISIÂO KING.
It is hardly necessary to say more on the preservation The work of of the Hsiâo King. In A. D. 996 the second
Hsing Ping. emperor of the Sung dynasty gave orders for an annotated edition of it to be prepared. This was finally completed in 1001, under the superintendence of Hsing Ping (932-1010), with a large critical apparatus, and a lengthened exposition, both of the text and of Hsüan Zung's explanation. This work has ever since been current in China.
CHAPTER III. CRITICISM OF THE HSIÂO SINCE THE THANG DYNASTY.
1. Notwithstanding the difficulty about one chapter which has been pointed out on p. 455, Hsuan Zung's text was generally accepted as the representative of that in modern characters, recovered in the second century B. C. There were still those, however, who continued to advoWorks on the cate the claims of the old text.' Sze-må
old text by Kwang, a distinguished minister and scholar Sze-mâ Kwang
and Fans of the Sung dynasty (1009-1086), presented
30-yu. to the court in 1054 his · Explanations of the Hsiao King according to the Old Text,' arguing, in his preface and in various memorials, for the correctness of that text, as recovered by Lill Hsian in the sixth century. Fan 30-yü (1041-1098), a scholar of the same century, and in other things a collaborateur of Kwang, produced, towards the end of his life, an 'Exposition of the Hsiao King according to the Old Text.' He says in his preface :. Though the agreement between the ancient and modern texts is great, and the difference small, yet the ancient deserves to be preferred, and my labour upon it may not be without some little value?'
In the Hsiao King, as now frequently published in China, either separately by itself, or bound up with KQ Hsi's Hsiao Hsio, the Teaching for the Young,' we find the old text, without distinction of chapters. The commentaries of Hsuan Zung and Sze-mâ Kwang, and the exposition of Fan 30-yü, however, follow one another at the end of the several clauses and paragraphs.
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