On "King Jian Dispelling the Drought"

Philosophy and Culture 34 (3):55-65 (2007)
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"King of the Park Bo four • Jian drought" is an interesting article, scholars thought that Benpian sentence "Jane King Park Dry" refers to Jane King at worship in addition to asserting drought, accident or read "Park" to "drink in" for "yu" for "cleanse" for "hundred." This addition to the above are, respectively, said that the issues, and Interpretation of instructions from the full article the main contents of the first half because of Heavenly King Jian sun and ill fortune to be offering what great mountains and rivers to asserting disease, between the monarch and his subjects and lead to simplify it to etiquette dispute. Only half of the narrative into drought. Thus the first sentence of the "park" the word should be interpreted as "Po" or "forced." "King Jian Dispelling the Drought", Volume Four of the Chu Bamboo Slips Collected by the Shanghai Museum, was a very interesting piece, which most scholars have thought to be about the ritual hosted by King Jian to dispel the drought. In this paper, we point out that the first half of this volume was mostly about how King Jian got sick under the drought, what kinds of divinations were required to relieve him of the disease, and how the king and his liegemen argued about the reduction of the decorum. It's not until the second half of the volume that the drought was described

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