Description
Inside this edition · 內頁樣張
Contents page, opening chapter, and a page from the middle of the book. Reproduced from the PDF you receive after purchase.
关于此本 · About this edition
The Dao De Jing is eighty-one short chapters — some of them four lines long — about how things work when nobody forces them. It has been read as philosophy, as statecraft, as a manual of breathing, and as poetry, and it survives all four readings because it never quite says which it is.
This edition gives the Wang Bi recension, the version almost everyone in China actually reads, with the commentary removed. What is left is the base text: eighty-one chapters, traditional characters, no notes interrupting the line.
《道德經》八十一章，此本用王弼本，刪去注文，只存經文，繁體。
内容 · What you get
- A typeset A5 PDF — all eighty-one chapters in order, set continuously rather than one chapter to a page.
- A two-column contents table listing every chapter by number.
- Instant download after payment; the file stays in your account.
底本与权利 · Source and rights
The base text is the public-domain Wang Bi edition held by Chinese Wikisource. The text is in the public domain; the typesetting, cover and notes are ours. The Wang Bi commentary has been deliberately omitted — if you want to study the commentary, this is not that book.
原文取自維基文庫公版王弼本，注文已刪；版式、封面與說明為本店製作。
You may read, print and quote this edition for study. Please do not resell the file.
注釋 · Editorial notes
王弼本 八十一章依王弼《老子道德經注》的分章，與馬王堆帛書本、郭店楚簡本的章次不同，不可互校。
白文 王弼注不錄。本書只存經文，一章一段。
異文 底本偶存「一作某」式的校語，已隨注文一併清除；如需校勘請另備一本。
The eighty-one chapters follow Wang Bi’s division; the Mawangdui silk manuscripts and the Guodian slips divide the text differently and cannot be collated chapter for chapter. Wang Bi’s commentary is not included. Variant readings noted in the source have been removed along with the notes.
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