Editing Satire (section)

===Ancient China===
Satire, or fengci (諷刺) the way it is called in Chinese, goes back at least to [[Confucius]], being mentioned in the [[Classic of Poetry|Book of Odes]] (Shijing 詩經). It meant "to criticize by means of an ode". In the pre-Qin era it was also common for schools of thought to clarify their views through the use of short explanatory anecdotes, also called yuyan (寓言), translated as "entrusted words". These yuyan usually were brimming with satirical content. The [[Daoist]] text [[Zhuangzi (book)|Zhuangzi]] is the first to define this concept of Yuyan. During the Qin and Han dynasty, however, the concept of yuyan mostly died out through their heavy persecution of dissent and literary circles, especially by [[Qin Shi Huang]] and [[Han Wudi]].<ref>{{Citation | chapter = Magistrates, Doctors, and Monks: Satire in the Chinese Jestbook Xiaolin Guangji | first = Antonio | last = Leggieri | title = The Rhetoric of Topics and Forms | year = 2021 | pages = 369–380 | doi = 10.1515/9783110642032-029 | isbn = 9783110642032 | s2cid = 234214074 | df = mdy-all | doi-access = free }}</ref>