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Part 4 · Reading · lecture 14 · 3 groups · not yet coveredThe Six Classics

The video for this lecture is still in production. For now this page gives the text, the base-edition pages, a recording and a translation.

孝經通,四書熟,如六經,始可讀。詩書易,禮春秋,號六經,當講求。有連山,有歸藏,有周易,三易詳。
Text from Yikonglu's Father's Lecture Notes, checked line by line against the base edition, Wang Xiang's Sanzijing xungu (1831 Japanese reprint). The page scans are from that edition; click a group to frame it on the page.

TrTranslation

孝經通,四書熟,如六經,始可讀。
Once the Classic of Filial Piety is understood and the Four Books are well known, one can begin to read the Six Classics.

詩書易,禮春秋,號六經,當講求。
The Odes, the Documents and the Changes, the Rites and the Spring and Autumn are called the Six Classics; they deserve close study.

有連山,有歸藏,有周易,三易詳。
There was the Lianshan, there was the Guicang, there was the Zhou Changes: these are the Three Changes, set out in full.

Draft translation; it will be revised when the lecture is filmed.

From the Father's Lecture Notes

This lecture hides two cases of “one missing”: it speaks of six classics but names only five, and of three Changes of which only one survives. The missing ones are not misprints; they were lost. What this lecture really teaches is not a list of titles but that books can disappear.

Translated from Yikonglu's Father's Lecture Notes for the Three Character Classic, written for a parent teaching a child.

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