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Tingxun geyan 庭訓格言

Jul 14, 2023 © Ulrich Theobald

Tingxun geyan 庭訓格言, full title Shengzu Ren Huangdi Tingxun geyan 聖祖仁皇帝庭訓格言 "Emperor Shengzu's maxims of court instruction" is a book on education compiled by the Yongzheng Emperor 雍正帝 (r. 1722-1735). It can be called a text on the theory of education. It has a length of just one fascicle with 246 brief paragraphs and was based on the author's experience when he was still the Crown Prince. Because it is related to the education of a prince, the content deals with the relationship between the sovereign and his ministers, the obligation to study, self-cultivation (xiu ji 修己) and governance (zhi ren 治人), and also a prince's daily routines (yinshi qiju 飲食起居).

The text is included in the Confucian sub-category of the imperial series Siku quanshu 四庫全書, and the collection Geyan huibian 格言彙編.

Sources:
Qian Guoqi 錢過旗, and Wang Juanjuan 王娟娟. 2021. "Cong Tingxun geyan kan Kangxi di de wenhua sixiang 從《庭訓格言》看康熙帝的文化思想." Xinjiang Daxue xuebao (Zhexue renwen shehui kexue ban) 新疆大學學報(哲學人文社會科學版) 49 (6): 73-79.
Li Xueqin 李學勤, and Lü Wenyu 呂文郁, eds. 1996. Siku da cidian 四庫大辭典, vol. 2, 1590. Changchun: Jilin daxue chubanshe.
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