Yan Ying

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Yan Ying ( Chinese  晏嬰  /  晏婴 , Pinyin Yàn Yīng , W.-G. Yen Ying ; approx. 589 - 500 BC ), also Pingzhong or Yanzi ( 晏子 , Yen-tzu  - "Master Yan"), was a politician and statesman in Qi State under various rulers during the spring and autumn annals . He came from Yiwei (now Gaomi , Shandong Province ). Yan was minister and advisor to the Ling , Zhuang, and Jing Dukes of Qi State .

In the Han-Ying Zhongguo zhexue cidian his merits are summarized as follows: “He was famous for his intercession and frugality, as well as for his courageous and skillful admonitions against his ruler. He stood for governing a state through decency in politics and was of the opinion that sovereigns and subjects should be harmonious in their relationships, but could be different in their views. "

Master Yan's Spring and Autumn

The font Yanzi chunqiu ( 晏子 春秋 , Yen-tzu ch'un-ch'iu  - "Spring and Autumn of Master Yan") or Yanzi ( 晏子 , Yen-tzu  - "Master Yan"), a collection of stories about the life and political activity of the statesman is usually attributed to him. It is an important work from ancient Chinese history in terms of philosophy . Since the Tang period, many scholars have expressed doubts about authorship. The book consists of 215 chapters. Some historians viewed it as a Muslim script because it advocates frugality and in some places criticizes Confucianism . An important edition of this is the one in the Congshu called Sibu congkan with a photographic reproduction of a type print from the Ming Dynasty .

See also

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Article: "Yan Ying", in: Han-Ying Zhongguo zhexue cidian , p. 542:

    "He was famous for his advocacy and frugality and brave and skillful admonitions against his ruler. He stood for governing a state by propriety in politics and held that sovereign and subjects should be harmonious in relationship, but could be different in views. "

  2. ↑ On authorship, cf. more recently the work of Olivia Milburn.
  3. ↑ cf. Article: “Yanzi chunqiu”, in: Han-Ying Zhongguo zhexue cidian , p. 541 f.
  4. ↑ 活字 本 / movable type edition
  5. ↑ See e.g. B. the HYDZD bibliography.

literature

HYDZD bibliography:

Qing Dynasty:
  • Sun Xingyan孙星衍: Yanzi chunqiu yinyi晏子 春秋 音 义 ( Jingxuntang congshu经 训 堂 丛书)
  • Yu Yue俞 樾: Yanzi chunqiu pingyi晏子 春秋 平 议 ( Zhuzi pingyi诸子 平 议, Chunzaitang quanshu春 在 堂 全书)
  • Su Yu苏 舆: Yanzi chunqiu jiaozhu晏子 春秋 校 注 ( Sixian jiang quankan思贤 讲 全 刊)
more modern:

Further

  • Olivia Milburn (translator): The Spring and Autumn Annals of Master Yan , Leiden: Brill. 2016
  • Yoav Ariel: The Spring and Autumn Annals of Master Yan , A bilingual edition in 2 vols, Beijing: Renmin University Press 2018
  • Rainer Holzer: Yen-tzu and the Yen-tzu ch'un-ch'iu. ( Würzburger Sino-Japonica 10) Peter Lang, Frankfurt 1982, ISBN 978-3-8204-7335-3 (with a German partial translation of the beginning)
  • Zhongguo wushenlun shi ( 中国 无神论 史 , Zhōngguó wúshénlùn shǐ ) in: Dangdai Zhongguo xuezhe daibiaozuo wenku 当代 中国 学者 代表作 文库 . Beijing: Zhongguo shehui kexue chubanshe 中国 社会 科学 出版社, 2011, ISBN 9787500407560 (2 vols.)
  • Stephen W. Durrant: "Yen tzu ch'un ch'iu 晏子 春秋", in: Michael Loewe (Ed.): Early Chinese texts: a bibliographical guide. Berkeley, California: The Society for the Study of Early China & the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1993 (Early China special monograph series; no. 2), ISBN 1-55729-043-1 , pp. 483-489
  • Olivia Milburn: The Textual History of the Yanzi chunqiu in The Spring and Autumn Annals of Master Yan (partial online view)
  • 汉英 中国 哲学 辞典. 开封 2002

Web links

Wikisource: Yanzi chunqiu  - sources and full texts
personal data
SURNAME Yan Ying
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 晏嬰; 晏婴; Yen-tzu; Yanzi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Politician and statesman of Qi State
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH around 500 BC Chr.