Bamboo Annals information

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...

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...

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...

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...

account of the Shang comes from texts such as the Book of Documents, Bamboo Annals and Records of the Grand Historian. Modern scholarship dates the dynasty...

Zhou period. The succession of dynasties was incorporated into the Bamboo Annals and the Records of the Grand Historian and became the official position...

Spring and Autumn Annals: A Full Translation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Bamboo Annals Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals Lüshi Chunqiu Spring...

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...

records and edicts. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bamboo slips. Bamboo Annals Bamboo tally Changsha Jiandu Museum Chu Silk Manuscript Mawangdui...

returned. The Bamboo Annals claim Yu killed one of the northern leaders, Fangfeng to reinforce his hold on the throne. According to the Bamboo Annals, Yu ruled...

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...

Different sources suggest different lengths of reign for the king. Bamboo Annals suggest a 8-year reign. ZizhiTongjianwaiji(A supplement to the Zizhi...

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...

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...

narrative about previous generations. The Book of Documents and the Bamboo Annals are two major historical sources. Later, Sima Qian wrote about the country...

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)...

known as Mount Tai earthquake. This event was first recorded in the Bamboo Annals, and at present, it is recognized by most scholars as the first recorded...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

earthquake. The earthquake was mentioned briefly in the Bamboo Annals. Yu the Great Bamboo Annals, a chronicle of ancient China Milton Walter Meyer (1994)...

proverbial for the wisdom and success of his rule. According to the Bamboo Annals written earlier but rediscovered later, a descendant of Shennong named...

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...

a city called Qiyi (岐邑). Koufu died in the 21st year of the reign of Wǔ Yǐ. Bamboo Annals Historically, the site was also known as Qishan (岐山). v t e...

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)...

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...

the "Xinwei" (辛未) year. He possibly ruled 25 years. According to the Bamboo Annals, in the 12th year of Xie's reign, the prince of Yin (殷), Zihai (子亥)...