"Qinghua Jian" discovered the grand and complex celestial system of the Warring States period

"Tsinghua University Tibetan Warring States Bamboo Jane (Pick One)" was released in Beijing on the 16th. Photo courtesy of the interviewee

"Tsinghua University Tibetan Warring States Bamboo Jane (Pick One)" was released in Beijing on the 16th. This study discovered the grand and complex system of heaven and man in the Warring States period, and provided important documents for the study of pre-Qin historiography.

"Tsinghua University Tibetan Warring States Bamboo Jane (Pick One)" contains the long Warring States bamboo book "Five Ages". The article is 130 simple, the whole content is basically complete, the total word count is nearly 4500 words, which is a rare pre-Qin book.

The Five Chronicles match the star calendar with the five virtues of etiquette, righteousness, love, benevolence, and loyalty, while the larger pages focus on the corresponding personnel practices, involving ritual sacrifices, human ethics, military warfare, fertility and reproduction. The whole text constructs a grand and complex system of heaven and man, which is a summary of the understanding of the relationship between heaven and man in the pre-Qin period.

The Five Classics are grand in scale, strict in structure, rich in layers and rich in meaning, which are of great significance to the study of ancient astronomical calendars and national governance. Huang Dekuan, director of the Research and Protection Center for Excavated Documents at Tsinghua University, said that the publication of the Five Ages will provide an important ideological document for the pre-Qin historians, and also provide valuable excavated documents for all sectors of society to understand the concept of ancient Chinese celestial beings.

According to reports, "Tsinghua Jane" was admitted to Tsinghua University in Tibet in 2008, and the relevant report has been successfully published in eleven series. (Reporter Gai Boming)