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Overview
Key data
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Author | Wang Yuezhen (1813–1881) |
| Completed | Tongzhi reign, Qing |
| Volumes | Ten, with an appendix on the computational methods of successive ages |
| Form | From 841 BCE year by year: new moons, intercalations, solar terms and sexagenary days |
Contents and form
The work computes the days of the Chinese historical calendar year by year:
from the first year of the Gonghe era (841 BCE) to the end of the Qing,
giving each month’s new moon, the intercalary months, and the sexagenary days of the twenty-four solar terms.
Its computations rest on the calendar actually used in each age,
so that each period follows its own calendar and no later method is imposed retroactively.
The calendars it uses
The work proceeds in sections by the calendar actually in use in each age: the six ancient calendars before Taichu,
then in turn the Santong, quarter-remainder, Qianxiang, Jingchu, Yuanjia, Daming,
Wuyin yuan, Dayan, Shoushi, Datong and Shixian methods.
Its computed figures are the reduction of calendrical learning to consultable days.
Value
For historical chronology the work is an indispensable tool.
A reader of the histories who meets a sexagenary day and needs its month and day
has only to consult it — the most concrete application of calendrical learning to history.
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