Motif
Celestial event as chronological sign
celestial_event_as_chronological_sign
A motif of the Sacred Time and Ritual Cycle family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
confucian
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The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism, Part I - The Shu King, the Religious Portions of the Shih King, the Hsiao King (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 3) BOOK OF HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS. / BOOK OF HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS. / INTRODUCTION. / INTRODUCTION. I I; lines 1155-1256 confidence: medium
The passage discusses four Hsia documents: the longest concerns Yu's achievement but belongs to Yao's reign; the others reach Kung Khang; the last mentions a celestial phenomenon understood as a solar eclipse, with Gaubil's calculation noted but doubted.
The last Hsia document is said to mention a celestial phenomenon understood as a solar eclipse, which a later scholar tried to calculate as historical confirmation.
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