The instructions of the Early Tan emperors

For the first time in Russian, in one collection, a commented translation and study of works of an instructive nature is presented, the authors of which are the Chinese rulers of the Tang era (618-907): “Golden Mirror” and “Rules of Emperors” by Tay-Sun, “Instruction of Heaven” Gao -Szuna, "subjects of subjects" at Je-Ten. In these instructions, the Tang monarchs sought to preserve in the name of the "eternal rule" of the dynasty the principles of management and the ethical correspondence of the rulers of their purpose introduced by them. The instructions of the Tang emperors are a valuable source for the study of the political ideology of the Confucian Far Eastern region, contain many information about politics, law, economics, cults, etc. China of that period, absent in other texts that have reached us.

The applications publish a translation into the Russian works of the Tai-Szun “Golden Mirror”, made in 1805 A.G. Vladykin and now stored in the archive of orientalists of the IVR RAS, as well as the text and facsimile of the Dunhuan manuscript of R. 5523 from the collection of the National Library of France, according to which the translation of the "instructions of heaven" of Gao-Zuna was completed.