法言

Literal translation: Model Sayings

Author

Yang Xiong

Language

Classical Chinese

Year

c. 9

Country

China

Genre

Nonfiction Book (Treatise, History, Biography, or Book-Length Essay)

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The Fayan, also known in English as the Model Sayings or Exemplary Figures, is a Classical Chinese text by the Han dynasty writer and poet Yang Xiong that was completed c. AD 9. It comprises a collection of dialogues and aphorisms in which Yang gives responses to a wide variety of questions relating to philosophy, politics, literature, ethics, and scholarship.