• The Bamboo Annals (Chinese: 竹書紀年; pinyin: Zhúshū Jìnián), also known as the Ji Tomb Annals (Chinese: 汲冢紀年; pinyin: Jí Zhǒng Jìnián), is a chronicle of...
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    Gaoxin (Hanja: 高辛) who was also a grandchild of Yellow Emperor. In the Bamboo Annals, one of the earliest sources, it is mentioned that when Emperor Zhuanxu...
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    to whom he had given his two daughters in marriage. According to the Bamboo Annals, Yao abdicated his throne to Shun in his 73rd year of reign, and continued...
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  • Xiang (Chinese: 相) is the name of a king of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty who is said to have reigned during the 3rd millennium BC. He was the fifth king...
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    account of the Shang comes from texts such as the Book of Documents, Bamboo Annals and Shiji. Modern scholarship dates the dynasty between the 16th and...
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    Zhou period. The succession of dynasties was incorporated into the Bamboo Annals and the Records of the Grand Historian and became the official position...
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    Spring and Autumn Annals: A Full Translation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Bamboo Annals Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals Lüshi Chunqiu Spring...
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  • many references to events in the preceding Western Zhou period. The Bamboo Annals provides a wealth of attractive detail, often varying from other sources...
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    records and edicts. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bamboo slips. Bamboo Annals Bamboo tally Changsha Jiandu Museum Chu Silk Manuscript Mawangdui...
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  • Shun." inferencing the virtuous attributes and authority of Shun. The Bamboo Annals (Chinese: 竹書紀年; pinyin: Zhúshū Jìnián) represent Yao as having banished...
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    3 years. He became wise and ruled well and the people returned. The Bamboo Annals claim Yu killed Fangfeng, one of the northern leaders, to reinforce...
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  • narrative about previous generations. The Book of Documents and the Bamboo Annals are two major historical sources. Later, Sima Qian wrote about the country...
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    largely matches that of the traditional histories of Sima Qian and the Bamboo Annals. The inscriptions also give insight into royal concerns such as weather...
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    also established Anyang as the new capital of China. According to the Bamboo Annals, Tang built a palace called Xia She (夏社) to memorialize the Xia dynasty...
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    clan (蜀山氏), according to Sima Qian, and Niuqu (女樞) according to the Bamboo Annals. Zhuanxu is also alternatively said to be the son of Hanliu (韓流) in...
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    in Annals of the Five Emperors (五帝本紀) that Shun descended from the Yellow Emperor through the latter's grandson Emperor Zhuanxu. The Bamboo Annals (048)...
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    may have been described in the Egyptian Tempest Stele. The Chinese Bamboo Annals reported unusual yellow skies and summer frost at the beginning of the...
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  • the accession of King Yih of Zhou, when according to the "old text" Bamboo Annals the day dawned twice. The Project adopted (without acknowledgement)...
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  • Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project places Zu Jia's reign at 1184 - 1177 BC. The Bamboo Annals (竹書紀年) gives another time frame, which David Nivison identified as 1177...
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  • was King Jiong of Xia and his name means "shack". According to the Bamboo Annals, Jin moved the capital to 'Western He' (西河). In the fourth year of Jin's...
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    earthquake. The earthquake was mentioned briefly in the Bamboo Annals. Yu the Great Bamboo Annals, a chronicle of ancient China Milton Walter Meyer (1994)...
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    originally oral traditions were recorded much later in histories such as the Bamboo Annals (c. 300 BC) and the Records of the Grand Historian (1st century BC)...
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  • proverbial for the wisdom and success of his rule. According to the Bamboo Annals written earlier but rediscovered later, a descendant of Shennong named...
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  • Different sources suggest different lengths of reign for the king. Bamboo Annals suggest a 8-year reign. ZizhiTongjianwaiji(A supplement to the Zizhi...
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    Shang dynasty of ancient China from 1147 to 1112 BC. According to the Bamboo Annals, his capital was at Yin. He was a son of his predecessor Geng Ding and...
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    calendar's 60-year repetition. The Guben Zhushu Jinian ("ancient version" of Bamboo Annals) gives Wu Ding's regnal dates as 1273–1213 BC. The Cambridge History...
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    briefly in the Bamboo Annals. The event has tentatively been dated to 1831 or 1740 BCE. Mandate of Heaven "current text" (今本 jīnběn), Bamboo Annals, Records...
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    century BCE. Early Chinese documents like the Book of Documents and the Bamboo Annals described him as a virtuous relative of the last king of the Shang dynasty...
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  • Lin Xin (廩辛) was king of the Shang dynasty of China. His name by Bamboo Annals is Feng Xin (冯辛), another book The Historic People of Han Book (汉书, 古今人表)...
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  • brother of Tai Kang. He was the father of Xiang of Xia. According to the Bamboo Annals, Zhong Kang took the throne in the year of Jichou (己丑). His capital...
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