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Shizi

Shizi may refer to:

  • Shizi (book), a 4th-century BCE Syncretic philosophy text
  • Shizi, Langxi County , town in Langxi County, Anhui
  • Shizi, Quanjiao County , town in Quanjiao County, Anhui
  • Shizi, Pingtung , township in Pingtung County, Taiwan
  • The Chinese word for lion
  • Chinese guardian lions
  • Shih Tzu, a dog breed named after the Chinese lion guardians
  • Pekingese, a dog breed called shizi (lion) by the Chinese
Shizi (book)

The Shizi is an eclectic Chinese classic written by Shi Jiao 尸佼 (c. 390-330 BCE), and the earliest text from Chinese philosophical school of Zajia 雜家 " Syncretism", which combined ideas from the Hundred Schools of Thought, including Confucianism, Daoism, Mohism, and Legalism. The Shizi text was written c. 330 BCE in twenty sections, and was well-known from the Han dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) until the Song dynasty (960-1279) when all copies were lost. Scholars during the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties reconstructed the Shizi from quotes in numerous sources, yet only about 15 percent of the original text was recovered and now extant. Western sinology has largely ignored the Shizi and it was one of the last Chinese classics to be translated into English (Fischer 2012).