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Taishang Ganying Pian 16: Conduct toward family and close relations
English rendering of the Japanese reader’s section 16. The 24 divisions are this site’s editorial divisions, not original chapters.
English rendering
Drinking to excess and losing reason; angrily quarreling with kin. Men failing to be sincere and good, women failing to be gentle and obedient. Discord with a wife and disrespect toward a husband. Constant boasting, envy and suspicion. Ill conduct toward wife and children, and discourtesy to a husband’s parents. Disrespecting ancestral spirits and disobeying superiors’ orders. Acting without benefit to others, harboring disloyal intentions, cursing oneself or others, and showing partial hatred or affection.
Reading note from this site
The original assigns virtues by gender and stresses obedience to husbands and elders. This site instead values mutual respect and safety regardless of gender; the historical claims are translated rather than erased.
Chinese source passage
嗜酒悖亂，骨肉忿爭；男不忠良，女不柔順；不和其室，不敬其夫；每好矜誇，常行妒忌；無行於妻子，失禮於舅姑；輕慢先靈，違逆上命；作為無益，懷挾外心；自咒咒他，偏憎偏愛；
Based on the classical text and this site’s independently prepared Japanese rendering. Classical source edition