Technical Arts in the Han Histories by Mark Csikszentmihalyi;Michael Nylan;

Author:Mark Csikszentmihalyi;Michael Nylan; [Nylan;, Mark Csikszentmihalyi;Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781438485447
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2021-09-15T05:00:00+00:00

Appendix A: Organization of the Shiji “Celestial Offices” and Hanshu “Celestial Patterns”

Shiji “Celestial Offices” Hanshu “Celestial Patterns” Comments

Introduction No correspondence with Shiji

The Stars

Circumpolar region

Eastern Palace

Southern Palace

Western Palace

Northern Palace

Close correspondence throughout

The Five Planets

Jupiter Jupiter The Hanshu adds new correspondences, including the Five Constants and the Five Modes of the “Great Plan,” and reorders the planets so that Saturn, associated with the Center and with Virtue (de), appears in the final position. Correspondence between treatises is limited.

Jupiter cycle

Mars Mars

Saturn Venus

Planetary

interactions Mercury

Venus Saturn

Mercury Planetary

interactions

Regional field allocations Closely corresponds to section in Shiji

Sixty-day cycle, regional correspondences Partial correspondence with Shiji, ten-day cycle, regional correspondences

Planets and regions

Jupiter cycle Cites Shi shi 石氏 and Gan shi 甘氏

Retrograde motion and eclipses Cites Classics to argue against claims that eclipses and retrograde motion can be considered regular behavior

Regional field allocations Shiji section contains one additional line

Sun and moon Little correspondence with cognate section in Hanshu, significantly shorter

Ten-day cycle, regional correspondences Most of this section is also found in Hanshu, sixty-day cycle, regional correspondences

Emergent “Stars” (primarily designations applied to comets and novae) Close correspondence throughout

Sun and moon More developed than cognate Shiji section, with several citations of Classics

Clouds and qi Close correspondence throughout

Tetrasyllabic poem Poem describes various baleful signs, including earthquakes, collapsing mountains, crop failures, and floods.

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