Chūnqiū Hòuyǔ 春秋後語
Discourses Following the Spring and Autumn by 孔衍
About the work
Chūnqiū Hòuyǔ 春秋後語 (also called Chūnqiū Hòu Guóyǔ 春秋後國語) is a jíyìběn reconstruction of a lost Warring States historical work by 孔衍 (Kǒng Yǎn, styled Shūyuán 舒元), a scholar of the Eastern Jin from Lǔ 魯 who served as Chancellor of Guǎnglíng 廣陵. The present text is the preface and reconstruction notes, plus reconstructed fragments.
Tiyao
No tiyao found in source. This is a jíyìběn reconstruction.
Abstract
Kǒng Yǎn modeled his Chūnqiū Hòuyǔ on the Guóyǔ 國語 (Discourses of the States), arranging Warring States historical materials taken from the Zhànguó Cè 戰國策 and Sīmǎ Qiān’s Shǐjì 史記 into a state-by-state chronicle spanning from Duke Xiào of Qín 秦孝公 to the Chǔ-Hàn succession war. The Sòng scholar Yáo Hóng 姚宏 had already noted in the 12th century that the text was hard to find. The Qing reconstructor (identified in the text only as 謨, likely Wáng Mó 王謨) assembled 67 passages from the Tàipíng Yùlǎn 太平御覽, Wénxuǎn 文選 commentary, Chūxué Jì 初學記, Běitáng Shūchāo 北堂書鈔, and Báikǒng Liùtiē 白孔六帖, organized by state: Qín 秦, Qí 齊, Chǔ 楚, Zhào 趙, Wèi 魏, Hán 韓, and Yān 燕.
The Suí Shū 隋書 bibliography records the Chūnqiū Hòuyǔ in 10 juǎn; the Jiù Táng Shū 舊唐書 records a 10-juǎn work supplemented with a chapter on the late Warring States by Kǒng Yǎn. The original was lost after the Táng.
Translations and research
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