Xiàozǐ Zhuàn 孝子傳 (Shī Juéshòu)
Biographies of Filial Sons, by Shi Jueshou by 師覺授
About the work
Xiàozǐ Zhuàn 孝子傳 by Shī Juéshòu 師覺授 is a jíyìběn reconstruction of a well-known collection of filial son biographies from the Liú-Sòng period. The Suí Shū 隋書 bibliography records the Xiàozǐ Zhuàn of Shī Juéshòu in 8 juǎn, making it one of the more substantial lost examples of the genre. The reconstruction preserves about 330 lines.
Tiyao
No tiyao found in source. This is a jíyìběn reconstruction.
Abstract
Shī Juéshòu was a Liú-Sòng scholar; scant biographical information about him survives beyond the record of this work. His Xiàozǐ Zhuàn was cited in Táng reference works alongside those of 蕭廣濟 (KR4k0396) as one of the principal collections of filial piety tales. The surviving fragments include narratives of children who underwent extreme physical hardship, self-mutilation, or prolonged ritual mourning in service to their parents, as well as miraculous responses to sincere filial feeling. Some of these tales contain elements of the supernatural or the fantastic that mark them as belonging to the zhìguài 志怪 (records of the strange) tradition as much as to moral biography.
The fragments were recovered from the Tàipíng Yùlǎn 太平御覽 and other standard sources. The text was lost after the Táng.
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