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The Book of Rites, also known as the Liji, is a collection of texts describing the social forms, administration, and ceremonial rites of the Zhou dynasty as they were understood in the Warring States and the early Han periods.
Traditional Chinese scholarship credited the text (along with the Rites of Zhou) to the 11th century BCE Duke of Zhou.Sinologist William Boltz (1993:237) says this tradition is "now generally recognized as untenable", but believes the extant Yili "is a remnant of "a larger corpus of similar ceremonial and ritual texts dating from pre-Han times, perhaps as early as the time of Confucius; that ...
The Rites of Zhou (Chinese: 周禮; pinyin: zhōu lǐ), originally known as "Officers of Zhou" (周官; Zhouguan), is a Chinese work on bureaucracy and organizational theory. It was renamed by Liu Xin to differentiate it from a chapter in the Book of History by the same name.
Yupei (Chinese: 玉佩; pinyin: Yùpèi) is a generic term for jade pendants. [1] Yupei were popular even before Confucius was born. [2]: 18 Jade culture is an important component of Chinese culture, [1] reflecting both the material and spiritual culture.
The present state of the documentation does not allow such a conclusion for two reasons: first, the most abundant data about the wu are to be found in Eastern Zhou texts; and, second, these texts have little in common with the data originating directly from the Shang civilization; possible ancestors of the Eastern Zhou wu are the cripples and ...
Huangfu Mi: Deeds of emperors and kings since legendary times: 38.975, n 3 典略 Dianlüe: Yu Huan: Believed to be based on parts of Weilüe: 1.45, n 1 高士傳 Gaoshi Zhuan: Huangfu Mi: Contains biographies of people from the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors era to the Three Kingdoms period: 11.355 漢紀 Han Ji: Annals of Han: Yuan Hong
Daji (Chinese: 妲己; pinyin: Dájǐ; Wade–Giles: Ta 2-chi 3) was the favourite consort of King Zhou of Shang, the last king of the Shang dynasty in ancient China.In legends and fictions, she is portrayed as a malevolent fox spirit who kills and impersonates the real Daji. [2]
Based upon a Liji ceremony [29] describing a shi personator drinking nine cups of jiu, with an estimated alcohol content from 5% to 8%, and volume measurements of Zhou bronze sacrificial cups, Paper calculates a "conservative estimate is that the shi consumed between 2.4 and 3.9 ounces of pure alcohol (equivalent to between 5 and 8 bar shots of ...