Huizuan gongguo ge 彙纂功過格 by Chen Xigu 陳錫嘏, 1634-1687 

A traditional Chinese moral self-cultivation text, often associated with Daoist, Confucian, and Buddhist ethical teachings. The title translates roughly as “Collected and Classified Ledger of Merits and Demerits.” It is part of a broader genre known as gongguo ge 功過格 (or Ledgers of Merit and Demerit), which were widely used in late imperial China to promote moral reform and spiritual discipline.  

This is a systematic guide for recording one’s daily moral behavior, where specific good and bad actions are assigned point values. The idea is that people should track their own conduct, reward good deeds (gong 功), and subtract points for bad ones (guo 過), leading to: Self-awareness, Moral accountability, Accumulation of virtue, Avoidance of spiritual punishment.

The first and second volumes are about "exhaust one's moral duty" (jin lunge 盡倫格), third to fifth volumes are about "self-cultivation" (xiushen ge 修身格), and the sixth volume is about "interaction with others" (yuren ge 與人格).

Lib. copy badly wormed.

The religious traditions of Asia / Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa, 1915-1992, ed.

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