The original edition of

Jia Li

written by famous moralist Zhu Xi in South Song Dynasty

was stolen before it was printed. When Zhu Xi was dying

a copy of original edition came out. Zhu Xi’s students printed different editions

such as Guangzhou edition

Yuhang edition

Linzhang edition

Chaozhou edition and Pingxiang edition according to the original edition. All of them don’t exist now. The existing editions order in Tong

Guan

Hun

Sang

Ji

Li. They are called as non-volume edition

four volumes edition

five volumes edition

eight volumes edition and ten volumes edition. The only existing two Song Dynasty editions are Song Ke Yang Zhu Fu Tu (printed in Song Dynasty annotated by Yang with pictures)edition

belonging to the system of five volumes edition and Zuan Tu Ji Zhu (Pictures and annotations) edition annotated by Yang Fu and further annotated by Liu Gai Sun

belonging to the system of ten volumes edition. When it comes to advantages and disadvantages

Song Dynasty editions are the best. Yuan Dynasty edition

copy edition and Ming Dynasty edition both come from Song Dynasty edition. Foreword in Zuan Tu Ji Zhu (pictures and annotations) edition is written by Zhu Xi. According to this

the argument about if Jia Yu is written by Zhu Xi strated from Ming Dynasty can be solved.