Format:
Online-Ressource (618 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781107006720
Content:
Drawing on a vast array of scholarship, this pioneering text illustrates how profoundly astronomical phenomena shaped ancient Chinese civilization
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Figures; Maps; Tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chronology of early China; Introduction; Part One Astronomy and cosmology in the time of dragons; 1 Astronomy begins at Taosi; Astronomy and the "Spirit Terrace"; Structural features; Practical considerations; Yaoshan and Huiguanshan solar altars; Other spirit terrace observations; 2 Watching for dragons; Dragons in the formative period; Duke Zhao, twenty-ninth year (513 BCE); Astronomy and the harnessing of dragons; The celestial Dragon as astral indicator, chen; A naturalistic origin for the Chinese dragon
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An eccentric dragonConclusion; Part Two Aligning with Heaven; 3 Looking to the Supernal Lord; Taiyi and Northern Culmen; The virtue of nothing; The Northern Dipper and the imperial power; Seasonal timekeeping and the Northern Dipper; Bronze Age antecedents; Migration of the Pole; A handoff of pole stars; On the origin of the character Di "(Supernal) Lord"; The role of the Supernal Lord; An Egyptian parallel; Paleographic and linguistic evidence; Conclusion; 4 Bringing Heaven down to Earth; Alignments and misalignments; City building in the earliest sources; "When Ding Had Just Culminated"
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Bringing down the PoleYingshi-Dongbi as "Heavenly Temple"; The alignment function of asterism Ding; Ding "right and true"; To divine (zhen ) and cauldron (ding ); Conclusion; 5 Astral revelation and the origins of writing; Calendrical notation as a cultural imperative; Stems and branches in the calendar; Visuographic recording before writing; Calendrical use of the cyclical signs; Finding inspiration in the sky; Visuographic depiction of astronomical phenomena: heshu and luotu; Part Three Planetary omens and cosmic ideology; 6 The cosmo-political mandate
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Astronomical phenomena and their correlation with political dynastiesFrom one to three - from history to "prehistory"; Critical objections; Early antecedents of "Five Elemental Phases" correlations; Dynastic changes of Elemental Phase; 7 The rhetoric of the supernal; Heaven's Mandate; The Supernal Lord's planetary minions; Shang and Zhou contrasts; A Han Dynasty retrospective interpretation; 8 Cosmology and the calendar; The separation of Heaven and Earth; Mismanagement of the calendar; Evolution of Shang theology; Part Four Warring States and Han astral portentology
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9 Astral prognostication and the Battle of ChengpuHistorical accounts of Duke Wen of Jin's ascendancy; Theory of field-allocation astrology; Principles of field-allocation astrology; Derivation of relevant astrological correspondences; The Sky River as cosmographic divide; Jupiter in applied field-allocation astrology: Zuozhuan examples; The Discourses of the States account of Duke Wen's restoration; Correlation of political and military activity with celestial phenomena; Astrological parallelism in two accounts in Discourses of the States; Conclusion
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Appendix: timeline of Duke Wen of Jin's restoration and events surrounding the Battle of Chengpu (March 12, 632 BCE)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107291126
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107006720
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Astrology and Cosmology in Early China : Conforming Earth to Heaven
Language:
English
Keywords:
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