The Celestial Response Canon Annotated 太上感应篇引经笺注

Also titled Imperial Academy Manuscript: Annotations Citing the Confucian Classics for the Treatise of the Supreme Lord on Response and Retribution, it was annotated by Hui Dong of the Qing Dynasty.

In his self-preface, the author stated: "In the early years of the Yongzheng reign, my late mother fell gravely ill. Your humble servant Dong attended to her day and night, preparing medicinal decoctions for her, and also prayed earnestly to the gods. I made a vow to compile annotations for the Treatise of the Supreme Lord on Response and Retribution to pray for the recovery of my mother’s illness. Heaven touched my sincere heart, and my mother’s illness gradually abated." It was for this reason that he completed these annotations.

Beneath each line of the Treatise of the Supreme Lord on Response and Retribution, Hui Dong first quoted verses and passages from the Confucian classics: The I Ching, The Book of Songs, The Book of History, The Book of Rites, The Spring and Autumn Annals, The Analects and The Mencius, then appended his own detailed commentary and annotations. His annotations also frequently incorporated citations of remarks by Taoist and Confucian scholars, as well as historical records and chronicles for illustration. As a preeminent Confucian scholar of the Qianlong reign period of the Qing Dynasty, Hui Dong integrated Confucian ethical principles with the doctrines of the Treatise of the Supreme Lord on Response and Retribution in this annotation work. This integration yielded a profound influence and ensured the work’s widespread circulation.

This book is categorized under the section of Precepts and Moralistic Texts in the The Daozang Extraneous Taoist Scriptures, embodying the syncretic ideological essence of yin and yang and mutual correspondence between Confucianism and Taoism.