자공의 국제외교 무대에서의 활약(1) - 사기 「중니제자열전」 ‘단목사’ 조에 대한 비판 -

Abstract

Prior to discussing Tsze-kung[子貢]'s activities on the international diplomatic stage, this paper examines the articles of 〈仲尼弟子列傳〉(《史記》), which are widely cited and talked about when discussing Tsze-kung's diplomatic activities, from a historical point of view. To this end, this sheet examined Tsze-kung's performance on the international diplomatic stage recorded in 《仲尼弟子列傳》(端木賜)'s biography, followed by two of his diplomatic activities recorded in the 《左傳》. As a result of the examination, the record of 《仲尼弟子列傳》 was clearly suspected of being a postscript. The contents of the incident were also unclear, and even when the incident occurred, it did not match the records of the librarian. Nevertheless, when describing Tsze-kung's performance on the international diplomatic stage, many people cite the corresponding article in 《仲尼弟子列傳》's exhibition and make their arguments based on it. This is also a problem in terms of distortion of facts, but it is also a serious obstacle to understanding the true nature of the self-communication. The diplomatic articles recorded there were compiled and composed of data related to compete for the supremacy in a country[中原經略] of Wú[吳], which began around the 7th year of Lǔ[魯] āi-gōng[哀公], to shine on Tsze-kung's activities. Therefore, there is no aspect that corresponds to the records of 〈孔子世家〉 or 《左傳》. If you want to see the activities of Tsze-kung on the international diplomatic stage, you must look at the records of other librarians(for example, 《左傳》 etc.). However, it was not covered in this paper due to the issue of the paper. I will consider it in detail later.