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Overview
Key data
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Completed | Southern Song |
| Nature | Astrological work, officially or imperially compiled |
| Volumes | One hundred |
| Contents | Astral divination, catalogues, and historical cases |
Title and nature
“Qianxiang” takes the sense of the “qian” emblem in the Changes, meaning the sky; “tongjian” means running through past and present.
The work gathers earlier astral divination, arranged by category.
Its bulk is large, making it a general collection of Southern Song astrological works.
Contents
It opens with a catalogue of astronomy and the star-officials, then the prognostications of the sun, moon and five planets,
and then those of clouds, vapours, wind and rain, with historical cases.
It quotes a great many earlier works and can be read against the Kaiyuan Zhanjing line.
Value
A representative of Southern Song officially compiled astral divination.
The earlier prognostications it preserves can serve in reconstructing lost books,
and it is material for the state of astral divination in the Southern Song.
Full text
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The title, date, summary and index structure compiled here are offered under CC BY 4.0 (attribution: Chujia Kuang · kuangchujia.com).
Compiled and arranged by Chujia Kuang.