{"product_id":"the-bamboo-annals-hong-yuan-9798721127243","title":"The Bamboo Annals: A Debunked \u0026 Restituted History of Sage Kings","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Bamboo Annals\u003c\/i\u003e, not seen in the Soong dynasty (A.D. 960-1279)'s bibliography, was taken to be lost during the prior turmoil time period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. Though, \u003ci\u003eThe Bamboo Annals\u003c\/i\u003e, that was first excavated in the 3rd century A.D., was no longer original as it was apparently appended the sexagenary cycle of sixty years and carried records on the nonexistent Five Thearchs during the Sui dynasty (A.D. 581-618) or earlier. Luo Mi of the Southern Soong dynasty, who had a discourse over the enthronement year of Lord Yao, i.e., one of the Five Thearchs, could be the suspect for authoring the forgery contemporary bamboo annals that was catalogued and printed in the Ming dynasty. Luo Mi, who cited the then-lost bamboo annals repeatedly, claimed in the preface to \u003ci\u003eLù Shi\u003c\/i\u003e (grand history) that the work of Huangfu Mi's \u003ci\u003eDi-wang Shì-ji\u003c\/i\u003e (Lineages of the Thearchs and Kings) and scholars all the way down to Liu Shu (A.D. 1032-1078)'s \u003ci\u003eTong Jian Wai-ji\u003c\/i\u003e (Complimentary book to Sima Guang's Zi Zhi Tong-jian) was narrow and shallow. Son Luo Ping in the annotation on \u003ci\u003eLù Shi\u003c\/i\u003e negated Huangfu Mi and Shao Yong's sexagenary 'jia chen' year (2297 B.C. and 2357 B.C., respectively) as Lord Yao's enthronement year, and without giving details as to how Lord Yao's enthronement year 'wu yin' (2323 B.C.) was derived, Luo Ping mentioned Tang dynasty astronomers Fu Renjun and Wang Xiaotong as experts of \"tui [deduction] bu [Jupiter's retrograde and prograde]\", with Fu Renjun being the person who designed the \u003ci\u003eWu-yin-Yuan-li\u003c\/i\u003e calendar on top of the Tang dynasty's 'wu-yin' founding year (A.D. 618), likely resulting from a tiny adjustment of chronograms of the Jupiter. Luo Mi or son Luo Ping, for the forgery contemporary version bamboo annals' widespread copy and paste of contents from \u003ci\u003eLù Shi\u003c\/i\u003e (grand history), was named the most likely culprit in the duology \u003ci\u003eThe Sinitic Civilization\u003c\/i\u003e. Nevertheless Luo Ping's discourse on Lord Yao's fuzzy 'wu ying' enthronement year that might not have exonerated Luo Mi or son Luo Ping from the forgery of the contemporary bamboo annals, the two years' difference of 'bing zi' (2325 B.C.) versus 'wu yin' (2323 B.C.) was a mathematical game, and the three sexagenary cycles' difference of 180 years in the forgery bamboo annals could be either an inadvertent mistake that did not necessarily absolve Luo Mi or son Luo Ping, or a helpless compromise with the Han dynasty's forgery summary years for the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, i.e., numbers that \u003ci\u003eLù Shi\u003c\/i\u003e fully bought into. Unfortunately, \u003ci\u003eThe Bamboo Annals\u003c\/i\u003e' astral-based thearchical years being untenable, ancient China's chronicling cornerstone remains the year of the Zhou conquest of Shang, that Zhang Ruzhou and Zhang Wenyu ascertained to be 1106 B.C. through proprietary interpretation of bronzeware moon phases. This book was an effort to debunk and restitute \u003ci\u003eThe Bamboo Annals\u003c\/i\u003e to its original truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hong Yuan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8721127247\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798721127243\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/19\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d","brand":"Hong Yuan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44190914543871,"sku":"9798721127243","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_60f9c600-f1aa-417d-a33e-4c29d92cd9cd.jpg?v=1690873033","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-bamboo-annals-hong-yuan-9798721127243","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}