Lunheng (Discourses Weighed in the Balance)論衡

Wang Chong · About AD 80 · China · 84 pieces · 228,622 Chinese characters

Eighty-four chapters fully translated. The graph counts were matched against the source text chapter by chapter, and all eighty-four chapters were confirmed to differ by not a single graph. ★There were eighty-five chapters in all, but for the forty-fourth, 招致篇, the source text records 「（此篇今缺）」. It was lost long ago; it was not taken out. ★Six notes are carried with it. They are collation records set down by Sun Yirang (孫詒讓), Huang Hui (黃暉) and Liu Pansui (劉盼遂) from matching the editions against one another, and all six are gathered at the Dongmyeong passage in 「Jiyan」. Whether the country's name is 「橐離」 or 「槀離」 or 「高離」 or 「索離」, and whether the river's name is 「掩淲水」 or 「㴲」 or 「施掩水」, parts with every book that quotes it — and that parting is the very worth of this passage, so it was not cleared away. The reason this was judged otherwise than the clearing away of Yang Liang's commentary in the Xunzi is that this is not exposition but matching. The inscription on the stele of King Gwanggaeto is quoted in those notes, and for the graphs that cannot be read because the face of the stele is worn, the source text writes private-use-area marks. They do not come up on every device, so they were settled on □ and not filled in. The source text mixes full-width and half-width marks, so they were settled all at once. At four places, though, a quotation mark is missing its closing partner (the story of Tang Yang in 「Leixu」 and the like), and these are left as the source text has them. One stray (P) left over from the keying in appears in each of 「Cimeng」 and 「Shuori」, one asterisk in 「Chengcai」, and one lone dot after a comma in 「Shuori」; these were cleared away. There are eight places worn past reading, marked □, and they were not filled in. The 𧬘 (U+27B18) of the sixty-ninth chapter, 𧬘時篇, is 言 with 難 added to it, so it is read as the Nansi chapter. That pairs with the seventy-third being 難歲篇.

• Ziji — The Author’s Own Account自紀篇 · 18 passages · 4,740 Chinese characters

• Duizuo — Why This Book Was Written對作篇 · 8 passages · 2,342 Chinese characters

• Anshu — Examining the Books案書篇 · 8 passages · 2,242 Chinese characters

• Shujie — Why Scholars Write書解篇 · 10 passages · 2,387 Chinese characters

• Zhengshuo — Setting the Classics Straight正說篇 · 12 passages · 3,827 Chinese characters

• Dingxian — Telling Who Is Worthy定賢篇 · 26 passages · 5,782 Chinese characters

• Zhishi — The Sage Is No Seer知實篇 · 25 passages · 4,009 Chinese characters

• Shizhi — Where Knowledge Comes From實知篇 · 28 passages · 3,825 Chinese characters

• Jiyi — Whom the Sacrifices Honor祭意篇 · 20 passages · 2,003 Chinese characters

• Siyi — What Sacrifice Means祀義篇 · 17 passages · 2,058 Chinese characters

• Jiechu — On Exorcism解除篇 · 11 passages · 1,701 Chinese characters

• Jieshu — Questioning the House-Siting Art詰術篇 · 16 passages · 1,784 Chinese characters

• Nansui — Objections on the Year Star難歲篇 · 13 passages · 1,945 Chinese characters

• Biansui — Examining Baleful Influences辨祟篇 · 11 passages · 1,768 Chinese characters

• Bushi — On Divination卜筮篇 · 22 passages · 2,228 Chinese characters

• Jiri — Censuring the Choice of Days譏日篇 · 16 passages · 2,070 Chinese characters

• Lanshi — Against the Taboos of Time𧬘時篇 · 10 passages · 1,441 Chinese characters

• Sihui — The Four Taboos四諱篇 · 19 passages · 2,781 Chinese characters

• Bozang — In Favor of Plain Burial薄葬篇 · 9 passages · 1,678 Chinese characters

• Yandu — On Poison言毒篇 · 14 passages · 1,554 Chinese characters

• Dinggui — What Ghosts Really Are訂鬼篇 · 21 passages · 2,923 Chinese characters

• Jiyao — Records of Apparitions紀妖篇 · 30 passages · 4,962 Chinese characters

• Siwei — False Tales of the Dead死偽篇 · 26 passages · 5,145 Chinese characters

• Lunsi — On Death論死篇 · 28 passages · 3,523 Chinese characters

• Yiwen — Lost Writings佚文篇 · 16 passages · 2,040 Chinese characters

• Xusong — The Need for Praise須頌篇 · 20 passages · 2,345 Chinese characters

• Yanfu — Proof of the Omens驗符篇 · 15 passages · 1,518 Chinese characters

• Huiguo — The Glory of the State恢國篇 · 22 passages · 2,498 Chinese characters

• Xuanhan — In Praise of the Han宣漢篇 · 14 passages · 2,139 Chinese characters

• Qishi — All Ages Are Alike齊世篇 · 21 passages · 2,656 Chinese characters

• Ganlei — Response Between Like Things感類篇 · 37 passages · 3,385 Chinese characters

• Ziran — Spontaneity of Nature自然篇 · 25 passages · 3,147 Chinese characters

• Zhiqi — Cycles of Order and Disorder治期篇 · 15 passages · 1,805 Chinese characters

• Shiying — Testing the Portents是應篇 · 19 passages · 2,629 Chinese characters

• Zhirui — Pointing to Auspicious Signs指瑞篇 · 17 passages · 2,403 Chinese characters

• Jiangrui — Discoursing on Auspicious Signs講瑞篇 · 40 passages · 4,236 Chinese characters

• Shangchong — On Grain Insects商蟲篇 · 14 passages · 1,531 Chinese characters

• Zaohu — Encountering Tigers遭虎篇 · 14 passages · 1,380 Chinese characters

• Luanlong — The Clay Dragon亂龍篇 · 30 passages · 2,026 Chinese characters

• Shungu — Beating the Drum at Floods順鼓篇 · 16 passages · 2,300 Chinese characters

• Mingyu — The Rain Sacrifice Explained明雩篇 · 26 passages · 2,902 Chinese characters

• Biandong — Moving Nature to Change變動篇 · 21 passages · 2,449 Chinese characters

• Qiangao — Heaven's Reproofs譴告篇 · 20 passages · 2,766 Chinese characters

• Hanwen — Cold and Warmth寒溫篇 · 14 passages · 1,733 Chinese characters

• Zhuangliu — Why the Worthy Rise Slowly狀留篇 · 13 passages · 1,667 Chinese characters

• Chaoqi — The Extraordinary Talent超奇篇 · 16 passages · 2,693 Chinese characters

• Bietong — Breadth of Learning別通篇 · 17 passages · 3,116 Chinese characters

• Xiaoli — Ability and Effort效力篇 · 18 passages · 2,535 Chinese characters

• Xieduan — Admitting Shortcomings謝短篇 · 30 passages · 2,278 Chinese characters

• Liangzhi — Measuring Knowledge量知篇 · 10 passages · 2,008 Chinese characters

• Chengcai — Weighing Talent程材篇 · 17 passages · 2,662 Chinese characters

• Daning — Answers on Flatterers答佞篇 · 15 passages · 2,967 Chinese characters

• Shuori — Explaining the Sun說日篇 · 33 passages · 5,835 Chinese characters

• Tantian — Discoursing on Heaven談天篇 · 14 passages · 2,146 Chinese characters

• Cimeng — Censuring Mencius刺孟篇 · 32 passages · 4,086 Chinese characters

• Feihan — Criticizing Han Fei非韓篇 · 24 passages · 3,992 Chinese characters

• Wenkong — Questioning Confucius問孔篇 · 73 passages · 7,026 Chinese characters

• Yizeng — Exaggerations in the Classics藝增篇 · 23 passages · 2,454 Chinese characters

• Ruzeng — Exaggerations of the Scholars儒增篇 · 39 passages · 3,827 Chinese characters

• Yuzeng — Exaggerations in Speech語增篇 · 28 passages · 3,027 Chinese characters

• Daoxu — False Tales of Immortality道虛篇 · 37 passages · 5,354 Chinese characters

• Leixu — False Tales of Thunder雷虛篇 · 19 passages · 3,824 Chinese characters

• Longxu — False Tales of Dragons龍虛篇 · 12 passages · 2,185 Chinese characters

• Huoxu — False Tales of Calamity禍虛篇 · 12 passages · 2,196 Chinese characters

• Fuxu — False Tales of Reward福虛篇 · 9 passages · 2,023 Chinese characters

• Ganxu — False Tales of Heaven Moved感虛篇 · 28 passages · 5,694 Chinese characters

• Yixu — False Tales of Prodigies異虛篇 · 15 passages · 2,448 Chinese characters

• Bianxu — False Tales of Averted Fate變虛篇 · 10 passages · 2,599 Chinese characters

• Shuxu — Falsehoods in Books書虛篇 · 27 passages · 5,148 Chinese characters

• Qiguai — Marvels and Oddities奇怪篇 · 10 passages · 1,853 Chinese characters

• Wushi — The Forces of Things物勢篇 · 9 passages · 1,538 Chinese characters

• Benxing — Our Original Nature本性篇 · 15 passages · 2,046 Chinese characters

• Chubing — The Endowment at Birth初稟篇 · 6 passages · 1,560 Chinese characters

• Guxiang — Reading the Bones骨相篇 · 10 passages · 2,305 Chinese characters

• Ouhui — Chance Coincidence偶會篇 · 10 passages · 1,808 Chinese characters

• Jiyan — Auspicious Omens吉驗篇 · 12 passages · 3,457 Chinese characters

• Shuaixing — Guiding One's Nature率性篇 · 11 passages · 2,330 Chinese characters

• Wuxing — No Change of Form無形篇 · 10 passages · 1,701 Chinese characters

• Mingyi — What Fate Means命義篇 · 12 passages · 2,005 Chinese characters

• Xing'ou — Luck and Chance幸偶篇 · 7 passages · 1,243 Chinese characters

• Qishou — Vital Force and Lifespan氣壽篇 · 5 passages · 1,086 Chinese characters

• Minglu — Fate and Fortune命祿篇 · 8 passages · 1,703 Chinese characters

• Leihai — Slander and Injury累害篇 · 9 passages · 1,787 Chinese characters

• Fengyu — Meeting with Favor逢遇篇 · 10 passages · 1,804 Chinese characters