{"id":8950,"date":"2019-11-15T13:41:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T13:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-reading\/masters-and-philosophers-zibu-zi-bu\/"},"modified":"2019-11-15T13:41:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T13:41:25","slug":"masters-and-philosophers-zibu-zi-bu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/masters-and-philosophers-zibu-zi-bu\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters and philosophers (zibu \u5b50\u90e8)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The category of &quot;masters and philosophers&quot; (zibu \u5b50\u90e8) is the third of the four traditio<em><\/em>nal categories (sibu \u56db\u90e8) into which Chinese literature was divided. The writings assembled in this category are quite heterogenous. Some are philosophical, others scientific, and a third part is a loose aggregation of des<em><\/em>criptive notes. The term zi \u5b50 is therefore not very easy to translate. The &quot;masters and philosophers&quot; were, during the Han period\u6c49 (206 BCE-220 CE), divided into Co<em><\/em>nfucians (rujia \u5112\u5bb6), Mohists (mojia\u58a8\u5bb6), sophists (mingjia \u540d\u5bb6), legalists (fajia \u6cd5\u5bb6), Yin-Yang thinkers(yinyangjia \u9634\u9633\u5bb6), theoreticians of the Five Progresses (wuxingjia \u4e94\u884c\u5bb6),Daoists (daojia \u9053\u5bb6), coalition advisors (zo<em><\/em>nghengjia \u7eb5\u6a2a\u5bb6), miscellaneous thinkers (zajia \u6742\u5bb6), agriculturalists (no<em><\/em>ngjia \u519c\u5bb6) and novelists orstorytellers (xiaoshuojia \u5c0f\u8bf4\u5bb6). Military theoreticians (bingjia \u5175\u5bb6) were in the beginning seen as a different group. With the growing amount of books written, the categories of astro<em><\/em>nomy and astrology (tianwen \u5929\u6587),mathematics and calendar (lishu \u5386\u6570), as well as medical treatises (yifang\u533b\u65b9) had to be incorporated into the literary categories. Technical skills were from the Tang period \u5510 (618-907) on also part of the masters category. Later on, Buddhism was not any more a foreign religion, but Chinese mo<em><\/em>nks started compiling Chinese treatises on Buddhism. At the same time the corpus of religious Daoist writings grew abundantly. The writings of the two religions had therefore also to be considered. Under the dominance of Co<em><\/em>nfucian scholars, the two were always put at the end of the masters category and included o<em><\/em>nly the most im<em><\/em>portant writings. Thecollectaneum Siku quanshu \u56db\u5e93\u5168\u4e66 includes 2,984 books in this category.<\/p>\n<p>  <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"397\" src=\"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191121_5dd669b7c0653.png\" alt=\"Masters and philosophers (zibu \u5b50\u90e8)\" \/><br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"557\" height=\"306\" src=\"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191121_5dd669b8b1222.png\" alt=\"Masters and philosophers (zibu \u5b50\u90e8)\" \/><br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1778105267\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The category of &quot;masters and philosophers&quot; (zibu \u5b50\u90e8) is the third of the four traditional categories (sibu \u56db\u90e8) into which<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-8950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-reading","tag-chinese-literature"],"views":224,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}