Tángzǐ 唐子
Master Táng by 唐滂 (Táng Pāng, fl. mid 3rd century, 吳)
About the work
A lost SūnWú 孫吳 zǐbù treatise by Táng Pāng 唐滂 (also written 唐溥 in some sources). Reconstructed from quotations in 《意林》, 《太平御覽》, 《北堂書鈔》, 《藝文類聚》, and from Lǐ Shàn’s Wénxuǎn commentary on Lù Jī’s 陸機 Wǔděng lùn 五等論. Not in the Sìkù quánshū; sourced from CHANT (CH2a1453).
Abstract
The Tángzǐ survives as a small cluster of moral-political aphorisms, mostly in Yìlín and Tàipíng yùlǎn. The contents are conventional for the southern zǐ-house genre of the late Three Kingdoms — observations on rulership, the cultivation of officials, and the discrimination of character. Notable is the unusual citation in Lǐ Shàn’s Wén xuǎn gloss on Lù Jī’s Wǔděng lùn, which suggests the work circulated as a standard early-medieval reference. The author Táng Pāng is otherwise barely attested; the Suí shū jīngjí zhì records his Tángzǐ in 10 juàn but supplies no biographical data. The date-bracket follows the Wú period (222–280). The received recension is a 19th-century jíyì.
Translations and research
No substantial secondary literature located. Standard fragment-compilation: 嚴可均 Quán sān guó wén 全三國文 j. 73.
Links
- Suí shū jīngjí zhì 隋書經籍志.
- Yìlín 意林 (Mǎ Zǒng).