Ganshikakun - Family Precepts of the Gan Family

This book is a set of 20 chapters in 2 volumes, written by the scholar Yan Zhitui during the Northern and Southern Dynasties of China, as a warning to his descendants. Yan Zhitui served four dynasties, Liang, Northern Qi, Northern Zhou, and Sui, but this book is believed to have been written in his later years during the Sui dynasty. It is mainly written from a Confucian perspective, and describes how to establish oneself, govern one's household, and live in the world, but there are also some parts that introduce Buddhist elements, such as the "Returning to the Heart" chapter, and some parts that examine characters and allusions. For this reason, it has been treated as a miscellaneous book since the "Siku Quanshu Zongmu Tiyao" of the Qing dynasty. There are also some sections that develop literary theory, such as the "Wenshu" chapter. In short, it is a critical book about the culture and civilization of the early 7th century, and in that sense it is noteworthy.

[Suzuki Shuji]

"The Family Instructions of the Yan Family, translated and edited by Seiichi Uno and Yujiro Suzuki (1982, Meitoku Publishing, Chinese Classics New Books)"

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中国、南北朝時代の学者顔之推(がんしすい)が、子孫への戒めとして記した家訓で、2巻20編からなる。顔之推は、梁(りょう)・北斉(ほくせい)・北周・隋(ずい)と4朝に仕えた人であったが、この本は晩年、隋代に書かれたものとされている。主として儒家的立場から、身の立て方、家の治め方、世の処し方などが述べられているが、なかには「帰心篇(へん)」などのように、仏教的なものを導入している部分もあり、また、文字や典故を考証した部分もある。それゆえ、清(しん)の『四庫全書総目提要』以来、雑家の書物として扱われるようになった。そのなかには「文章篇」のように、文学論を展開させる部分もある。要するところ、7世紀初頭の文化、文明についての批評書で、その意味において注目される。

［鈴木修次］

『宇野精一・鈴木由次郎訳・編『顔氏家訓』（1982・明徳出版社・中国古典新書）』

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