Lùzǐ 陸子
Master Lù by 陸景 (Lù Jǐng, c. 250–280, 吳)
About the work
A lost SūnWú 孫吳 zǐbù treatise by Lù Jǐng 陸景, son of the great Wú general Lù Kàng 陸抗 and nephew of Lù Xùn 陸遜. Reconstructed from quotations in 《意林》, 《太平御覽》, 《初學記》, 《晉書·陸雲傳》 and 《老子》 sub-commentary citations. Not in the Sìkù quánshū; sourced from CHANT (CH2a1455).
Abstract
Lù Jǐng was a precocious young Wú aristocrat — at twenty he was already commenting on the Lǎozǐ and producing his own zǐ-house essays — who died at thirty-one when the Western Jìn armies conquered Wú in 280. He was the elder brother of the famous Lù Jī 陸機 and Lù Yún 陸雲, who survived the fall of Wú to become major Western Jìn literary figures. The Lùzǐ (also titled Diǎn yǔ 典語 in some early citations) is a zǐ-house treatise on the moral foundations of rulership and the orderly conduct of office, with surviving fragments showing a more theoretical and xuánxué-inflected register than the contemporary Wú political memoirs of Yīn Jī or Lù Kǎi 陸凱. The composition window is bracketed by his short life; the received recension is a 19th-century jíyì.
Translations and research
No substantial dedicated secondary literature located in Western languages. Brief discussions in David R. Knechtges’s biographies of his brothers Lù Jī and Lù Yún in Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature: A Reference Guide (Brill). Standard fragment-compilation: 嚴可均 Quán sān guó wén 全三國文 j. 70.
Links
- Sānguó zhì 三國志 j. 58 (陸遜傳附陸抗、陸景傳).
- Jìn shū 晉書 j. 54 (陸機傳).