Qinghua Jianli discovered the grand and complex Celestial Human System of the Warring States

On December 16, Tsinghua University's Tibetan Warring States Bamboo Jane released its latest research results in Beijing. The latest interpretation is the long Warring States Bamboo Book "Five Ages". The article is 130 jane, the whole content is basically complete, the total word count is nearly 4500 words, is an unprecedented pre-Qin book, the length is huge, can be called the most excavated Jane.

According to reports, the "Five Ages" borrowed the mouth of the Later Emperor, with the Five Ages (day, moon, star, chen, year) as the center, and established the routine and law of all things in heaven and earth. The Five Chronicles match the star calendar with the five virtues of etiquette, righteousness, love, benevolence, and loyalty, and the heavens and goddesses and the gods and the earth, while the larger space focuses on the corresponding personnel and practices, involving the establishment of the state, ritual sacrifices, human ethics, geotechnical things, soldiers and wars, fertility and reproduction, human body diseases and other aspects. The whole article constructs a grand and complex system of heaven and man, which can be said to be a synthesis and summary of the understanding of the relationship between heaven and man in the pre-Qin period, which is of great significance for the study of ancient astronomical calendars and national governance. (Guangming Daily all-media reporter Deng Hui)

Source: Guangming Daily