《七略》 / Qilue

Overview

《七略》 / Qilue enters the wiki as a Western Han imperial bibliography compiled by 刘歆 after he completes 刘向’s text-collation work. Hanji 564 presents it as both a catalog of accumulated texts and an intellectual classification system that makes books legible for court-centered governance.

Current Profile

The episode says Han Aidi orders Liu Xin to audit and collate texts brought to the capital. Liu Xin then produces Qilue, organized as Jilue, Liuyi lue, Zhuzi lue, Shifu lue, Bingshu lue, Shushu lue, and Fangji lue. The source reports the catalog’s scale as 38 kinds, 596 schools or authors, and 13,269 juan.

Qilue’s strongest current wiki meaning is classificatory. Its seven divisions do not merely count books; they arrange knowledge into classical, philosophical, literary, military, technical, and medical-practical domains. The Zhuzi section then gives the episode its main intellectual-history frame by placing nine schools inside a historical theory of political fragmentation and partial insight.

Key Characteristics

• Imperial bibliography produced from court-held texts under Han Aidi.
• Completion of Liu Xiang’s earlier collation project by Liu Xin.
• Seven-part classification covering classical learning, philosophers, poetry and fu, military texts, numerical arts, and healing or technical arts.
• Large-scale catalog in the episode’s account, with 13,269 juan.
• Source for a synthetic account of the nine schools as divergent but potentially usable traditions.

Evidence

• Court commission: Hanji 564 says Han Aidi orders Liu Xin to review and collate texts gathered in the capital.
• Compilation: Hanji 564 says Liu Xin completes Liu Xiang’s unfinished work and submits Qilue.
• Seven divisions: Hanji 564 lists Jilue, Liuyi lue, Zhuzi lue, Shifu lue, Bingshu lue, Shushu lue, and Fangji lue.
• Scale: Hanji 564 reports 38 kinds, 596 schools or authors, and 13,269 juan.
• Nine schools: Hanji 564 says the Zhuzi section groups thought into Confucian, Daoist, Yin-Yang, Legalist, School-of-Names, Mohist, Diplomatist, Syncretist, and Agricultural schools.

Qualifications

This page follows the episode’s summary and does not reconstruct the received bibliographic tradition independently. The reported numbers and category names are source-scoped to Hanji 564. The source treats Qilue mainly through its scale and its Zhuzi interpretation, so details of individual book entries, textual variants, and later transmission remain outside the current evidence.

What Changed

• Created Qilue as the wiki entity for Liu Xin’s imperial bibliography.
• Added the seven-part structure, reported scale, and nine-schools interpretive role.

Relationships

• 刘歆 - compiler who submits Qilue in Hanji 564.
• 刘向 - predecessor whose unfinished collation work Qilue completes.
• 目录分类作为治国术 - concept illustrated by Qilue’s state-backed ordering of books.
• 诸子九流综合观 - concept drawn from Qilue’s Zhuzi section.
• 汉哀帝 - ruler under whose commission the cataloging work is completed.