Bamboo Annals

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The Bamboo Annals is an ancient Chinese chronicle, discovered on bamboo slips in a tomb, that records legendary and early historical events of the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties.

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Bamboo Annals canonical 7

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Chinese chronicle
bamboo manuscript
historical text
associatedWith State of Wei NERFINISHED
Xia–Shang–Zhou chronology project NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin China
describes early historical events
legendary events
discoveredAt tomb in the State of Wei
discoveredIn Jin dynasty NERFINISHED
fieldOfStudy Chinese historiography
Sinology
paleography
genre annalistic history
chronicle
hasPart accounts of rulers
chronological entries
regnal year records
hasVersion ancient text version
later redacted version
historicity partly historical
partly legendary
influenced reconstruction of Xia dynasty history
study of early Chinese chronology
mainSubject Chinese legendary rulers
Shang dynasty NERFINISHED
Xia dynasty NERFINISHED
Zhou dynasty NERFINISHED
early Chinese history
material bamboo
medium bamboo slips
originalLanguage Classical Chinese
preservationStatus original bamboo slips lost
survives in transmitted copies
relatedTo Book of Documents NERFINISHED
Records of the Grand Historian NERFINISHED
ancient Chinese bamboo texts
subjectOf chronological debates
philological research
textual criticism
timePeriodCovered Shang dynasty period NERFINISHED
Xia dynasty period NERFINISHED
Zhou dynasty period NERFINISHED
usedAsSourceBy later Chinese historians
writingSystem Chinese characters

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Description of subject: The Bamboo Annals is an ancient Chinese chronicle, discovered on bamboo slips in a tomb, that records legendary and early historical events of the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties.

Referenced by (7)

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Xiong clan historicalSource Bamboo Annals
Zhuanxu mentionedIn Bamboo Annals
Tang of Shang mentionedIn Bamboo Annals
King Zhou of Shang associatedWork Bamboo Annals
Zhou state historicalSource Bamboo Annals
Xia dynasty mentionedIn Bamboo Annals
Battle of Muye describedIn Bamboo Annals