"A Small Excerpt from the Farming Course"

…He also criticized the trend of “respecting the Ming and the Qing” at the time, and said that if there was something good to learn, even if the person was a “barbarian,” he should learn from them as a teacher. He embodied this idea in his travelogue “Jehol Diary,” written when he accompanied the Yan Delegation (the envoy sent to Beijing) in 1780. However, his writing style was criticized by Jeongjo and other Confucian scholars as being in the style of a strange official’s book that disrupted “proper writing.” So when Jeongjo widely requested agricultural books in 98, he responded with a “proper writing style” by adding “Limiting the Count’s Name on the Fields” to “Kaenong Soso.” This was a plan to improve agricultural techniques and the land system. …

*Some of the terminology used in "Kainou Shosho" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…また，当時の〈尊明排清〉の風潮を批判して，学ぶべき長所があれば，たとえ〈夷〉であっても師として学ぶべきだとし，1780年の燕行使(北京に派遣された使節)に随行したときの紀行文《熱河（ねつか）日記》で，その思想を具体化した。ところがその文体が〈醇正な文体〉を乱す稗官奇書流であると，正祖をはじめ儒者たちの非難を浴びたので，98年に正祖が広く農書を求めたとき，《課農小抄》に〈限民名田議〉を付して，〈醇正な文体〉をもってこれに応えた。これは農業技術と土地制度の改善策を展開したものである。…

※「《課農小抄》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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