Rong Cheng Shi Explained

The Rong Cheng Shi is an ancient bamboo manuscript from the Chinese Warring States period (ca. 453–221 BCE) that was discovered and purchased on Hong Kong's antiquity market in 1994. It is now kept at the Shanghai Museum. It was published in the second volume of the Shanghai Bowuguan can Zhanguo Chu jian shu 上海博物館藏戰國楚竹書. Like the entire collection, it is dated to the mid through late 4th century BCE.^{[1] [2]}

To date, it is the only historical narrative from that runs from ancient times to the beginning of the Zhou dynasty. It addresses abdication as an ideal way of ruling, and describes history as devolutionary.^[3]

External links

• Pines. Yuri. 2010. Political mythology and dynastic legitimacy in the Rong Cheng shi manuscript. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 73. 3. 503–529. 10.1017/S0041977X1000042X. 154441449. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120425122636/http://www.eacenter.huji.ac.il/uploaded/fck/Rong%20Cheng%20shi%20BSOAS.pdf. 2012-04-25.

Notes and References

1. Dorofeeva-Lichtmann. Vera. 2010. The Rong Cheng shi 容成氏 Version of the 'Nine Provinces': Some Parallels with Transmitted Texts. East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine. 32. 32. 13–58. 10.1163/26669323-03201004. 43150780. 1562-918X.
2. Book: Allan, Sarah. Buried ideas : legends of abdication and ideal government in early Chinese bamboo-slip manuscripts. 21 October 2015. 978-1-4384-5779-6. Albany. 182. 926917385.
3. Book: Allan, Sarah. Buried ideas : legends of abdication and ideal government in early Chinese bamboo-slip manuscripts. 21 October 2015. 978-1-4384-5779-6. Albany. 181. 926917385.