What are Mozi's works?

Mozi's work is Mozi. Mozi has a wide range of contents, including politics, military affairs, philosophy, ethics, logic, science and technology, etc. It is an important historical material for studying Mozi and his later studies. This book is divided into two parts: first, it records Mozi's words and deeds, expounds Mozi's thoughts, and mainly reflects the thoughts of Mohism in the early stage.

On the other hand, Shang Jing, Xia Jing, Jing Shuo Shang, Jing Shuo Xia, Daqu and Xiaoqu, generally called Mo Bian or Mo Jing, embody Mohist epistemology and logical thought, and also contain many natural science contents, reflecting Mohist thought in the later period. In the Western Jin Dynasty, both Lu Sheng and Le Yi commented on Mozi, who has been lost. There are two popular versions now, Mozi Idleness by Sun Yirang and The Scholars.

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Mohist works were gradually lost after the Six Dynasties. In the tenth year of the Ming Dynasty (1445), Zhang Yuchu collected Mozi in the Taoist Collection. There are only fifty-three Mohist poems handed down in modern times, and these pages have been preserved because they were compiled into Taoist works "Taoist Collection". Wang's book Mozi is divided into two parts, inside and outside, and he has a volume of Illustration of Mozi. There are 53 existing Mozi, which record Mozi's words and deeds and his later study.

Since the Qin Dynasty, Mozi's and his disciples' remarks have been scattered in various ancient books, such as New Preface, Autopsy, Yanzi Chunqiu, Han Feizi, Lu's Chunqiu, Huainanzi, Liezi, Warring States Policy, Old Events in Palace, Biography of Immortals and so on. Liu Xiang recorded Mozi as seventy-one articles in the Records of Han Shu Yi Wen Zhi in the Western Han Dynasty.

There were only 60 articles in the Song Dynasty, and now there are only 53 articles, which are lost 18. Among them, the second part of Sacrifice, the first and second parts of Sacrifice and Burial, the first and second parts of Ming Ghost, the second and third parts of Fei Yue and the first part of Fei Ru are all lost. Except for these eight parts, all the other ten articles are lost. Of these ten articles, only one is poetic justice.