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Philosophy text by Yang Xiong (c. 9 AD) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Fayan, also known in English as the Model Sayings or Exemplary Figures, is a Classical Chinese text by the Han dynasty writer and poet Yang Xiong that was completed c. AD 9. It comprises a collection of dialogues and aphorisms in which Yang gives responses to a wide variety of questions relating to philosophy, politics, literature, ethics, and scholarship.[1]
Author | Yang Xiong |
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Original title | 法言 |
Language | Classical Chinese |
Genre | Philosophy |
Publication date | c. AD 9 |
Publication place | China |
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Literal meaning | Model sayings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The text of the Fayan is divided into 13 chapters. It is presented in the form of dialogues between Yang and an anonymous interlocutor, whose questions which Yang responds with terse, authoritative pronouncements that rely more on wit and puns than on logical exposition. The style is deliberately modeled on the Analects, and was intended to counter the ideas of the "syncretic" philosophical school, which Yang believed was contrary to the orthodox teachings of Confucianism and the ancient Chinese sages.[2]
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