Huái nán hóng liè jiě 淮南鴻烈解
Great Illumination of Huáinán with Commentary
commentary attributed to 許慎 (Xǔ Shèn)
The Huái nán zǐ 淮南子 — the great Hàn syncretic-encyclopedic text compiled c. 139 BCE at the court of Liú Ān 劉安, Prince of Huái nán 淮南王. Twenty-one inner chapters survive, integrating HuángLǎo cosmology, Confucian ethics, political theory, and natural philosophy. The Dào zàng edition is accompanied by the “Xǔ Shèn” commentary — a complex composite Hàn commentarial tradition of uncertain attribution but substantially pre-Táng. Preserved as DZ 1184 / CT 1184 (Tài qīng bù 太清部).
Dating. Core text c. 139 BCE; commentary Hàn. Dynasty: 漢.
Translations and research
- Major, John S., et al. The Huainanzi: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Early Han China. Columbia UP, 2010. Complete English translation.
- Le Blanc, Charles. Huai-nan Tzu: Philosophical Synthesis in Early Han Thought. Hong Kong UP, 1985.
Links
- Kanseki Repository KR5f0018
- Commentator: 許慎.
- ctext.org: 淮南子