廣弘明集 13.48

13.48

開士曰。孔子至周見老聃而問禮焉。史記具顯。為文王師則無典證。出於周末其事可尋。若在周初史文不載。又檢周禮官儀。文武成康之世並無柱史藏吏之名。當是正品闕條周末小史耳。

The Bodhisattva says: Confucius went to Zhou, met Lao Dan, and inquired of him about the rites—the Shiji records this fully. Yet as for his being the teacher of King Wen, there is no textual evidence at all. That he appeared at the end of the Zhou can be investigated from the facts, but if he lived at the beginning of the Zhou, the historical texts record nothing of it. Furthermore, examining the official system of the Zhouli, in the reigns of Wen, Wu, Cheng, and Kang there was no title of archivist (zhushi) or keeper of the archives (cangli). He must have been a minor scribe at the end of the Zhou whose office was omitted from the canonical statutes.