Song Huiyao Jigao

Song Huiyao Jigao

Editor	Xu Song et al.
Author	Zhang Dexiang Wang Gui Cai You Yu Yunwen Liang Kejia Wang Huai Jing Tang Shi Miyuan and others
Language	Classical Chinese
Publication place	Qing dynasty (documents from Song dynasty)

Song Huiyao Jigao
Traditional Chinese	宋そう會かい要よう輯稿こう
Simplified Chinese	宋そう会かい要よう辑稿こう
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Sòng Huìyào Jígǎo Wade–Giles Sung hui-yao chi-kao

Song Huiyao Jigao ('Song Government Manuscript Compendium') is a Qing dynasty collection of Song dynasty writings on Song government, edited by Xu Song and others who extracted the manuscripts in part from the Ming dynasty Yongle Encyclopedia (1408).

Background and content

During the reign of the Qing Jiaqing Emperor (r. 1796-1820), whilst compiling the Quan Tang Wen (全ぜん唐から文ぶん), literally: Complete Literature of the Tang) academic Xu Song ordered the preparation of the Song Huiyao Jigao based on the Song Hui Yao (宋そう会かい要よう/宋そう會かい要よう, literally: Song Compendium) of the Yongle Encyclopedia and other sources. The entire work runs to 366 chapters and includes sections covering Imperial genealogy (帝みかど系けい), wives and concubines (后妃こうひ), music (乐) Confucian Rites (礼れい), military attire (舆服), ceremonial procedure (仪制), divination (瑞みず异), divination (运历), Confucian honors〈崇たかし儒), official appointments (职官), elections (选举), consumer goods (食しょく货) crime and punishment (刑法けいほう) military matters (兵へい), territorial issues (方ほう域いき), foreigners and barbarians (蕃夷ばんい) and Daoism and Buddhism (道みち释) as well as 17 other topics.

The book contains a large quantity of Imperial edicts and decrees as well as memorials and other documents relating to institutional mechanisms of the Song dynasty. Whilst not replacing the History of Song, the Song Huiyao Jigao is still a key document for research into the Song legal system.

Many of the elements comprising the Song Huiyao Jigao were lost until the 1930s when Miao Quansun (缪荃孙/繆荃孫まご) Tu Ji (屠ほふ寄よせ) and Liu Fuceng (刘富曾/劉りゅう富とみ曾) compiled a new version that was first published in 1936.

References

• (In Chinese) "Song Dynasty Manuscript Compendium". Retrieved August 23, 2010.