Artifacts related to Confucius on display

By ZHAO RUIXUE | China Daily
Updated: 05:24 PM (GMT+8) Sept 22, 2021
Unearthed bamboo slips with content from the Analects of Confucius. [Photo by Lin Lin for chinadaily.com.cn]

More than 370 ancient items related to the Analects of Confucius — a collection of ideas and sayings from the ancient Chinese philosopher —are on show at the Confucius Museum in Qufu, Shandong province.

The artifacts include documents from several dynasties — annotations of the analects, unearthed bamboo slips bearing certain content and a long scroll handwritten by a 12-year-old child during the Tang Dynasty (618-907).

The exhibition also includes translated books on Confucius, such as a book written in French and printed in London in 1783 and a series of books using three languages — Chinese, Manchu and Mongolian.

The first rubbings of the Analects of Confucius carved in stone for Emperor Qianlong (1711-99) of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). [Photo by Lin Lin for chinadaily.com.cn]
The Analects of Confucius in three languages — Chinese, Manchu and Mongolian. [Photo by Lin Lin for chinadaily.com.cn]
Two books written in French on Confucius. [Photo by Lin Lin for chinadaily.com.cn]
Notes to Si Shu — four major books of Confucian studies, with the Analects of Confucius being one of them — annotated by Zhu Xi, a neo-Confucian philosopher of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279). [Photo by Lin Lin for chinadaily.com.cn]

 

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