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Overview
Key data
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Period of use | 956 – 959 CE |
| Compiler | Wang Pu |
| Year head | Jian-yin |
Wang Pu and the Qintian calendar
The Qintian calendar was made by Wang Pu and promulgated in 955 CE, replacing the Chongxuan. Wang was an outstanding statesman and scholar of the Five Dynasties, versed in astronomy and the calendar.
It corrected the laxity of earlier eclipse computation and was accounted precise. It was used only four years before the Later Zhou gave way to Song.
Influence
The early Song Yingtian calendar was built on it. Though brief, it was the link from Five Dynasties to Song.
Full text
No electronic full text of this work is available here. This calendar has no separate transmitted text; its methods survive scattered in the calendrical treatises of the standard histories. Among the histories held here, see Old History of the Five Dynasties, Calendrical Treatise, juan 140.
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