Subject: Zhu Xi 朱熹, 1130-1200. Jiali 家禮--History and criticism

Chu Hsi's family rituals : a twelfth-century Chinese manual for the performance of cappings, weddings, funerals, and ancestral rites [Jiali 家禮. English & Chinese]
AuthorEbrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947-Zhu Xi 朱熹, 1130-1200Huang Ruijie 黃瑞節
PlacePrinceton, N.J.
PublisherPrinceton University Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish, Chinese
TypeBook, Digital Book (PDF)
SeriesPrinceton library of Asian translations
ShelfHallway Cases, Digital Archives
Call NumberGN635.C5 C4813 1991
Descriptionxxxi, 234 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
NoteFull title: Chu Hsi's family rituals: a twelfth-century Chinese manual for the performance of cappings, weddings, funerals, and ancestral rites / translated, with annotation and introduction by Patricia Buckley Ebrey.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-228) and index.
Includes original Chinese text: Jiali 家禮 / Zhu Xi 朱熹 ; Huang Ruijie fulu 黃瑞節附錄. Zhuzi chengshu 朱子成書 (1341 ed.)
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ISBN0691031495
LCCN90-44943
Confucianism and family rituals in imperial China : a social history of writing about rites
AuthorEbrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947-
PlacePrinceton, N.J.
PublisherPrinceton University Press
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
Series
ShelfHallway Cases
Call NumberGN635.C5 E28 1991
Descriptionx, 272 p. ; 25 cm.
NoteConfucianism and family rituals in imperial China : a social history of writing about rites / Patricia Buckley Ebrey.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-264) and index.

Early Confucian discourse on family rites -- Redesigning ancestral rites for a new elite in the eleventh century -- Combating heterodoxy and vulgarity in weddings and funerals -- Chu Hsi's authorship of the Family rituals -- Orthodoxy of Chu Hsi's Family rituals -- Revised versions of the Family rituals written during the Ming Dynasty -- Intellectuals' reevaluation of the Family rituals in the Ch'ing Dynasty -- Confucian texts and the performance of rituals.

ISBN0691031509
LCCN91-7488
Jiali hejiao lu 家禮合教錄. [Jap-Sin I, 2(38/42) 40/9d]
AuthorZhang Xiangcan 張象燦, juren
PlaceTaibei 臺北
PublisherTaipei Ricci Institute 利氏學社
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition初版
LanguageChinese 中文
TypeBook
SeriesChinese Christian texts from the Roman Archives of the Society of Jesus ; v. 11, Yesuhui Luoma dang'anguan Ming-Qing Tianzhujiao wenxian 耶穌會羅馬檔案館明清天主教文獻 ; 第11冊
ShelfHallway Cases
Call NumberBX1665.A2 Y47 2002 v. 11
Descriptionv. 11, pp. 279-304 ; 22 cm.
NoteJiali hejiao lu 家禮合教錄 / Zhang Xiangcan zhu 張象燦著.

JapSin I, (38/42) 40/9d
Jiali hejiao lu 家禮合教錄.
By Zhang Xiangcan 張象燦.
Manuscript, folios 145–158. Chinese bamboo paper, one volume.

The only information we have about the author comes from the marginal note on folio 145 which states that he was a juren (licentiate) of Xi’an fu 西安府 (Shaanxi) and a Christian. The manuscript was presented to Father Gabiani, then Vice-Provincial of China.
Folio 145 bears the title in Chinese and a table of contents of the manuscript in seventeen paragraphs. Again on folio 147 the title in Chinese is given together with the author’s name: 後學張象燦述.

According to the author the treatise was written in reply to those who criticized the Christians for their lack of the feeling of respect and reverence, because they did not act according to the traditional custom in the ceremonies of marriage and funerals. To rebut this, he tried to prove the ignorance of the adversaries by quoting the Jiali 家禮 of Zhu Xi 朱熹 whose book is a great authority on ritual ceremonies (cf. Jap-Sin I, 9; I, 31 and I, 32).

In his preface the author contends that, though one may criticize the Christians for their lack of conformity with pagan traditions, one certainly must respect the Jiali , since this is a Chinese book and had been widely used by the Chinese in their daily lives. Now, the Jiali refutes the absurdity of astrologers and also the absurdity of the Buddhists and Daoists. On this point it agrees with the teaching of the Christians. Hence the title of the manuscript.

The pagan customs mentioned in this manuscript were probably particular to the Shaanxi province. It should be of great help to folklorists who wish to study the traditional customs of the time.

The paragraph on the motives of magistrates who venerate the city gods (Chenghuang 城隍) is exactly the same as that given on ff. 83–86 of the Lishi tiaowen 李師條問 (cf. Jap-Sin I, [38/42] 40/2). Even the handwriting of the two passages is identical, except for the citation of the edict of the founder of the Ming dynasty (Ming Taizu 明太祖) and the remarks of Qiu Jun 丘濬 (1420–1495). These are given only in this manuscript and are written in a different hand.

Source: Albert Chan, SJ, Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome, pp. 59-60.