Qù fá lùn 去伐論
Discourse on Eschewing Self-Boasting by 孫毓 (Sūn Yù, fl. late 3rd century, 晉)
About the work
A very short Western Jìn 西晉 moral-philosophical essay by the ritualist and classicist Sūn Yù 孫毓 (governor of Chángshā 長沙太守 under the Jìn). Preserved as a single brief fragment in 《藝文類聚》. Not in the Sìkù quánshū; sourced from CHANT (CH2a1384).
Abstract
The Qù fá lùn survives only as an Yìwén lèijù extract of about fifty lines, but the topic is conventional: an admonition against the cardinal Confucian fault of self-praise (fá 伐 — “to vaunt one’s merit”), framed by appeals to the Lúnyǔ and the Lǐjì. Sūn Yù was a substantial classicist — the Suí shū jīngjí zhì records his Máo shī yì wèn 毛詩異問 and Lǐ jì zhù 禮記注 — and is regularly cited in Tōng diǎn 通典 for ritual opinion on mourning grades. The composition window is bracketed by his Western Jìn career. The received recension is a 19th-century jíyì.
Translations and research
No substantial secondary literature located. The single fragment is reprinted in 嚴可均 Quán Jìn wén 全晉文 j. 35.
Links
- Sānguó zhì 三國志 (passim, 裴松之 zhù).
- Suí shū jīngjí zhì 隋書經籍志 (孫毓 Lǐ jì zhù, Máo shī yì wèn).