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A book written by Chinese scholar Ying Shao (date of birth and death unknown) at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It consists of 10 or 31 volumes. Ying Shao was from Nandun, Runan County (Henan Province). He came from a famous family of government officials. The origin of the book's title is recorded in the "Preface to the General Meaning of Manners and Customs." The book's contents are wide-ranging, but its core is that it shows how the Han Dynasty was the greatest of all time in an era of great destruction and chaos in the royal family, and it stands on the fundamental principle of ritual and music, "changing the wind and changing the customs," corrects the excesses of ritualism, and seeks a world of order as it should be.

[Takao Okubo]

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中国、後漢(ごかん)末の学者応劭(おうしょう)（生没年不詳）の著書。10巻または31巻。応劭は汝南(じょなん)郡南頓(なんとん)（河南省）の人。歴代官僚名家の出身。「風俗通義序」に書名の由来を記している。書の内容は多岐にわたるが、その中心は、王室大壊し無秩序となってゆく時勢に、漢王朝の百世に冠たるを示し、「風を移し俗を易(か)う」という礼楽の根本義にたち、礼教主義の行きすぎをただし、あるべき秩序の世界を求めたものである。

［大久保隆郎］

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