Bamboo Annals
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ancient work of Chinese history preserved on bamboo slips
Key facts
- Original title
- 竹書紀年
- Language
- Classical Chinese
- Subject
- ancient Chinese history
- Publication date
- before 296 BC
- Publication place
- State of Wei , ancient China
- Traditional chinese
- 竹書紀年
- Simplified chinese
- 竹书纪年
- Literal meaning
- Bamboo Books Annals
- Hanyu pinyin
- Zhúshū Jìnián
- Wade giles
- Chu -shu chi -nien
- Ipa
- [ʈʂu ̌ .ʂu ́ tɕi ̂ .njɛ ̌ n]
- Yale romanization
- Jūk-syū gei-nìhn
- Jyutping
- Zuk -syu gei -nin
- T i l
- Tiok-su kí-liân
- Middle chinese
- trjuwk syo kiX nen
- Baxter sagart 2014
- * truk s-ta C.k(r)ə(ʔ)-s C.nˤing
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Encyclopedic overview
The Bamboo Annals (Chinese: 竹書紀年; pinyin: Zhúshū Jìnián), also known as the Ji Tomb Annals (Chinese: 汲冢紀年; pinyin: Jí Zhǒng Jìnián), is a chronicle of ancient China. It begins in the earliest legendary time (the age of the Yellow Emperor) and extends to 299 BC, with the later centuries focusing on the history of the State of Wei in the Warring States period. It thus covers a similar period to Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian (91 BC). The original may have been lost during the Song dynasty, and the text is known today in two versions, a "current text" (or "modern text") of disputed authenticity and an incomplete "ancient text".
Textual history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bamboo Annals” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.