Qidiaozi 漆雕子

Qidiaozi 漆雕子 "Master Qidiao" was a Confucian treatise written by a certain Master Qidiao 漆雕. The imperial bibliography Yiwenzhi 藝文志 in the official dynastic history Hanshu 漢書 says that the book was 13-chapters long and remarks that Master Qidiao was a disciple of Confucius 孔子 and a descendant of Qidiao Qi 漆雕啟.

The book was already lost in the early Later Han period 後漢 (25-220 CE). Among the disciples of Confucius, several persons with the family name Qidiao are to be found, like Qidiao Kai 漆雕開 (i.e. Qidiao Qi) or Qidiao Duo 漆雕哆. The family Qidiao hailed from the state of Lu 魯 and was famous for their expertise in ritual matters. The author of the Qidiaozi might have been Qidiao Ping 漆雕憑.

The Qing-period 清 (1644-1911) scholar Ma Guohan 馬國翰 (1794-1857) collected statements about Master Qidiao from the books Hanfeizi 韓非子, Shuoyuan 說苑, Lunheng 論衡 and Kongzi jiayu 孔子家語 and compiled five paragraphs that are to be found in his series Yuhan shanfang jiyi shu 玉函山房輯佚書.