The Kaicheng Stone Classics (
- Book of Changes or I Ching (
易 經 Yìjīng) - Book of Documents (
書 經 Shūjīng) - Book of Songs (
詩經 Shījīng) - Rites of Zhou (
周 禮 Zhōulǐ, originally part of the Book of Rites) - Ceremonies and Rites (
儀禮 Yílǐ, originally part of the Book of Rites) - Book of Rites (
禮 記 Lǐjì) - The Commentary of Zuo (
左 傳 Zuǒzhuàn) on the Spring and Autumn Annals - The Commentary of Gongyang (
公 羊 傳 Gōngyáng Zhuàn) on the Spring and Autumn Annals - The Commentary of Guliang (
穀 梁 傳 Gǔliáng Zhuàn) on the Spring and Autumn Annals - The Analects (
論語 Lúnyǔ) - Classic of Filial Piety (
孝 經 Xiàojīng) - Erya (
爾 雅 Ěryǎ)
The classics, with more than 650,000 characters engraved double-sided on 114 stone tablets, are preserved in the Stele Forest Museum in Xi'an, China. Widely regarded as the world's heaviest books, these tablets are also among the most complete copies of these key documents of Chinese culture to ever have existed.[2]
Other stone Confucian classics
editThe Confucian classics have been engraved on stone tablets several times. The Xiping Stone Classics or Han Stone Classics were set up at the Imperial Academy outside Luoyang in 175–183. Around 200,000 characters were inscribed on 46 stelae, comprising the text of the seven classics recognized at the time: the Book of Changes, Book of Documents, Book of Songs, Book of Rites, Spring and Autumn Annals, Classic of Filial Piety and Analects. Only a few fragments of these tablets have survived. The Zhengshi (
Later stone classics are Guangzheng (
References
edit- ^ Wilkinson, Endymion (2000). Chinese history: a manual (2nd ed.). Harvard Univ Asia Center. pp. 475–476. ISBN 978-0-674-00249-4.
- ^ Wilkinson (2000), p. 443.
- ^ Wilkinson (2000), pp. 439, 475.
- ^ "Remains of the Old Luoyang". CCTV-9. 26 August 2011. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
- ^ Xiping Stone Classics (熹平
石 经) Archived 2012-03-02 at the Wayback Machine (in Chinese) - ^ Wilkinson (2000), p. 439.
- ^
国 图收藏 的 汉魏石 经
External links
edit- Chinese stone rubbings database at East Asian Center for Informatics in Humanities, Kyoto University: Tang tablets, Han stone fragments