Yingtian Calendar

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Overview

Promulgated in 963 CE (in use from 960) under Wang Chuna — the first calendar of the Northern Song.

Key data

ItemDetail
Period of use960 – 980 CE
CompilerWang Chuna
Year headJian-yin

Reform at the founding of Song

At the founding of Song the court carried on the Later Zhou Qintian calendar and in 963 CE promulgated the Yingtian calendar, made by Wang Chuna — the first of the Northern Song.

Founding houses often follow this pattern: they keep the old calendar for a time and then make their own to mark the new order.

Afterwards

It was used twenty years, until the Qianyuan calendar replaced it in 980. Early Northern Song calendars changed rather often, a sign of active debate.

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 Songshi, Calendrical Treatise, juan 68.
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