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The Sacred Books of China (5); The Texts of Confucianism
The Sacred Books of China The Texts of Confucianism - 5 Author:Confucius Volume: 5 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1899 Original Publisher: Scribners Subjects: Confucianism History / Asia / China Philosophy / Eastern Philosophy / Taoist Religion / Buddhism / General Religion / Confucianism Religion / Taoism Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the orig... more »inal. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Chapter III. On The Chronology Of China, And The Principal Eras In The SnO. i. I do not enter here on the subject of the chronology of China further than is necessary to show that there is no chronological difficulty in the way of our accepting the documents of the Shu, which I have just specified, as being possessed of the antiquity ascribed to them. The ShQ itself does not supply the means of laying down No detailed any scheme of chronology for the long period chronological of tjme which it covers. We learn from it that system can be made out the dynasty of A au succeeded to that of from the ShQ. Shang (another name for which was Yin), and the dynasty of Shang to that of Hsia, and that prior to Yii, the founder of the Hsia, there were the reigns of Shun and Yao. As P. Gaubil has observed, ' If we had only the ShO King, we should have hut confused ideas of the time comprised in the different parts of the book." There is nothing in this to awaken our surprise. The chronology of a nation comes to be cultivated as a science only when a necessity is felt to arrange the events of its history in regular series on the course of time. i. It was under the Han 'dynasty that it was first attempted to construct a chronological Attempts at systematic scheme of the history of the nation. For Cbe'an1'm'y this purpose its scholars employed the well- the Han known cycle of sixty years, in the fifteenth ...« less