Motif
cyclical reckoning of historical time
cyclical_reckoning_of_historical_time
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I - The Shu King, the Religious Portions of the Shih King, the Hsiao King (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 3) BOOK OF HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS. / INTRODUCTION. / INTRODUCTION. I I / Chapter III.; lines 1504-1603 confidence: medium
Under the Han dynasty, scholars first attempted a systematic chronology using the sixty-year cycle, attributed to Ta-nao, an officer of Hwang Ti, in B.C. 2637; the passage adds that cyclic characters for years did not begin earlier than Mang.
The passage centers a sixty-year cycle as a chronological device used by Han scholars and discusses its attributed ancient origin and limited ancient use.
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