天保历 Northern Qi · Song Jingye

Overview

Promulgated in the Tianbao era under Song Jingye, used throughout the Northern Qi.

Key data

Item	Detail
Period of use	550 – 565 CE
Compiler	Song Jingye
Year head	Jian-yin

Song Jingye and the Tianbao calendar

The Tianbao calendar was made by Song Jingye of the Northern Qi and promulgated in 550 CE, used until 565 CE.

Song also practiced the apocryphal arts; the histories record that he urged Gao Yang to take the Wei throne, and this calendar came from his hand. In reading him one should keep the arithmetic and the apocrypha apart.

Use

It was used for some fifteen years and was the principal calendar of the Northern Qi. After the Qi fell, its methods were absorbed by the Northern Zhou.

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 Suishu, Calendrical Treatise, juan 17.
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