Bi yuan

Bi Yuan
( Qingdai xuezhe xiangzhuan )

Bi Yuan ( Chinese 畢沅 / 毕沅 , W.-G. Pi Yüan ; born 1730 ; died 1797 ), zi : Rangheng 纕蘅, hao: Qiufan 秋帆 and literarily Lingnan shan ren 靈巖山人 ('Man from the Lingnan Mountains') was a Confucian scholar from the Qing Dynasty .

life and work

Bi was from Zhenyang (now Taicang ) in Jiangsu Province . After the jinshi exam, he began a long civil servant career. However, he is remembered not for his experience in his civil service career, but for his contributions to various fields of knowledge, including history, geography, epigraphy, exegesis, and the studies of classics. With the help of other scholars, he edited a large number of old books and collated old texts of the Confucian classics, which after centuries of misprints were difficult or even ambiguous to read.

Fonts

(see HYDZD bibliography nos. 8, 106, 2338, 2339)

Mozi jiaozhu墨子校注 ( Congshu jicheng chubian丛书集成初编) (to Mozi墨子)
Shiming shuzheng释名疏证 ( Jingxuntang congshu经训堂丛书) (for shiming释名 from Liu Xi刘熙)
Xu Zizhi tongjian 续资治通鉴 ( Zhonghua shuju 1957) (for Zizhi tongjian资治通鉴)
Jingdian wenzi bianzheng shu经典文字辩证书 ( Jingxuntang congshu经训堂丛书) ( photo )

literature

汉英中国哲学辞典. 开封 2002
ECCP . Volume 2. Text Archive - Internet Archive

Web links

Wikisource: 續資治通鑑 - Sources and full texts (Chinese)

Wikisource: A Chinese Biographical Dictionary - Sources and full texts

Bi yuan 畢沅

Individual evidence

↑ Bi Yuan . In: Han-Ying Zhongguo zhexue cidian. Kaifeng 2002, p. 281

personal data
SURNAME	Bi yuan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	毕沅; 畢沅 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Confucian scholar and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH	1730
DATE OF DEATH	1797

[1] Bi Yuan . In: Han-Ying Zhongguo zhexue cidian. Kaifeng 2002, p. 281