Kongzi Jiayu
Cover of an 1895 printed edition of the Kongzi Jiayu | |
| Author | Kong Anguo (attributed) Wang Su (editor) |
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| Original title | 孔子家語 |
| Language | Classical Chinese |
| Subject | Sayings of Confucius |
| Publication place | Han China |
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| Traditional Chinese | 孔子家語 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 孔子家语 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Master Kong's school sayings | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Kongzi Jiayu (Chinese: 孔子家語), translated as The School Sayings of Confucius or Family Sayings of Confucius, is a collection of sayings of Confucius (Kongzi), written as a supplement to the Analects (Lunyu).
A book by the title had existed since at least the early Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD), and was listed in the 1st-century imperial bibliography Yiwenzhi with 27 scrolls. The extant version, however, was thought by later scholars to have been compiled by the Cao Wei official-scholar Wang Su (195–256 AD), and contains 10 scrolls and 44 sections. Thus, Chinese scholars had long concluded that the received text was a 3rd-century forgery by Wang Su that had nothing to do with the original text of the same title. However, this verdict has been overturned by archaeological discoveries of Western Han dynasty tombs at Dingzhou (55 BC) and Shuanggudui (165 BC).