Political History of Books:A Case Study of Precedents of Ritual Protocol for Jin's Imperial Ministers and Annotations to the Report on Jin's Official Posts

This article takes Fu Chang's Precedents of Ritual Protocol for Jin's Imperial Ministers and Xun Chuo's Annotations to the Report on Jin's Official Posts as a means to observe the interactions between books and political processes during the Western and Eastern Jin dynasties. Both Fu Chang and Xun Chuo were employed as high-ranking officials, with a background of being from the Central Plain, by the regime of the Later Zhao founded by Shi Le. Their purpose for writing the two books was to provide guidance for the regime's institutional establishment. The collapse of Shi Le's regime led to the flow of people and their possessions to the south. During these movements, the two books along with other materials and records were brought to Jiankang and then contributed to the institutional and cultural development in the middle and late Eastern Jin Dynasty. As historical facts and references for political reformation, these books revealed the duality of institutional writings. The collection and dispersion of books after the Disaster of Yongjia, as well as the social and cultural changes, should be placed in a wider political process for further examination.

The History of the Former Han Dynasty:A Critical Translation with Annotations Translated by Homer Hasenpflug Dubs

Translation is an important medium of cultural communication.It is not a mere transfer of two languages,but the interaction of two cultures.Cultural misreading,which results from cultural discrepancy and translator’s subjectivity,truly reflects where the blockade and conflict in the cultural communication is.Cultural misreading is an objective phenomenon that exists in the entire process of translation.This paper intends to make a comprehensive analysis and discussion on The History of the Former Han Dynasty:a Critical Translation with Annotations translated by Homer Hasenpflug Dubs.As for the reasons of cultural misreading,this paper divides them into three types—language,thinking habit,traditional culture.It is to be hoped that this paper will draw more attention from the translation circle to the phenomena,and make contribution to the development of literary translation.

The Influence of Wu Zi Jin Si Lu by Wang You in Huizhou on Ly Dynasty in North Korea

Wang You’s thoughts on the compilation of Wu Zi Jin Si Lu reflect the thoughts of the scholars who took Zhu Xi as their mentor in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.Wang You combined four scholars in the Northern Song Dynasty(Zhou Dunyi,Zhang Zai,Cheng Yi,and Cheng Hao)and Zhu Xi into a whole,so that readers could grasp their thoughts as a whole.This also enabled the scholars of the time to access to the sages.His books were widely circulated in East Asia and were well received by Ly Dynasty,North Korea,with many copies printed.Inspired by Wang You’s compiling ideas,Ly Dynasty scholars in North Korea have compiled new documents reflecting the local Xing-li of learning,such as Li Duzhong’s Li Zi Jin Si Lu and Song Bingxuan’s Jin Si Xu Lu.The Huizhou scholars,represented by Wang You,spared no effort to construct the Jin Si Lu documents to adapt to the development of the times and to explain the essence of Jin Si Lu.It played a certain role in the dissemination of Neo-Confucianism in East Asia.

Reacting to Epidemics:The Innovative Imperial Public Health System during the Late Northern Song Dynasty

Song China was a period in which China experienced a great increase in its population.Concurrently,the Song dynasty also experienced a rise in the frequency of epidemics and two major wars with the Western Xia and Liao dynasties during the 1000s and 1040s.The consequences of these changes were exacerbated by the increased geographical mobility of certain social groups such as traders and examinees attending civil service examinations.Thus,casualties of wars,epidemics,or disease,especially of people whose families were far away and could not care for them were left without care and“their corpses often lay bare along the roads.”This new social environment created a need for general relief.The Northern Song government(960-1127 CE),especially during the reign of Emperor Huizong,established an innovative public health system to address this issue.The public health system included poorhouses,public hospitals,and pauper’s cemeteries.The first were more of charity organizations,whereas the latter two promoted public health by providing medical services for the poor and burial for those that nobody cared for.In terms of rationale behind these institutions,on the one hand,they constituted an attempt to get the poor and homeless off the streets while providing them relief or burial.On the other hand,it seems that Huizong’s deep concern with medicine propelled him to design and implement a comprehensive public health system oriented to prevent contagion and outbreak of epidemics.This article depicts the background,the organization,and the functions of the system.The article also discusses the conditions and reasons that gave rise to such a unique undertaking by the Northern Song government.

A Preliminary Study on the Spherical Bombs(Huolei)of the Southern Song Dynasty,Unearthed in Chongqing

The military situation of the thirteenth century required that the Song and the Mongols construct a great number of defensive works,relying on the mountains or facing the rivers,in the mountainous Sichuan Province and Chongqing.In recent years,a special kind of explosive firearms,huolei火雷(bombs),was unearthed in the large-scale excavations of the site of Diaoyu Fortress钓鱼城in Hechuan District合川and the Baidicheng白帝城in Fengjie County奉节,both of which were defensive works constructed in this mountainous area during the Southern Song dynasty.In addition,the ruins of kilns and the clay molds that were relevant to the casting of iron huolei have been discovered at the site of Baidicheng,indicating that these huolei might have been produced locally.The Southern Song iron huolei unearthed in Chongqing are the most direct evidence of the evolvement of gunpowder and firearms,and are of great significance to the history of science and technology,in particular the history of military technology.

Impact of Hermit Culture of the Wei and Jin Dynasties on Location Aesthetics of Villa

This paper introduced the origination of seclusion culture, analyzed historical background, causes, and aesthetic performances of hermit culture, took living style and life attitude of Tao Yuanming for example to summarize the location characteristics of villas under the impact of hermit culture in the Wei and Jin Dynasty. On this basis, site selection of Tianquan Julong International Eco-villa in Longquanyi District, Chengdu City was analyzed, and profound influence of hermit culture on the location aesthetics of modern villa explored.

An Analysis of the Shi Clan Connections in the Wei-Jin and North-South Dynasties Based on the Character Network of Shishuoxinyu

Shishuoxinyu is a collection of anecdotal stories about the words and deeds of Wei and Jin characters. In this paper, we build a complex network with characters in Shishuoxinyu to analyze the scholarly connections in the Wei-Jin and North-South dynasties. The ER random graph, WS small-world network, BA scale-free network, and experimental network are constructed for comparison. The network properties of the experimental network were analyzed using the average degree, average clustering coefficient, and average path length. Degree centrality, mesoscopic centrality, and proximity centrality were selected to understand the importance of the experimental network nodes, and it was found that the king guide had the highest importance in the whole experimental network. Then, through the observation of network degree distribution, this experimental network is considered as a scale-free network with robustness and vulnerability, which is in line with the political characteristics of the Wei-Jin and Northern Dynasties. Finally, ten larger-scale Shi clans are selected to construct a new network for inter-clan linkage analysis. This study helps to uncover the reasons for the rise and fall of the Shi clans during the Wei-Jin and North-South dynasties.

Yan Shigu, linguist of the Tang Dynasty

Yan Shigu, a famous linguist, scribe and historian of the Tang Dynasty, is most famous as a linguist. Since he has no monograph on linguistics, his main thoughts lie in books like Han Shu Zhu. His achievements in linguistics make a big difference in the history of Chinese linguistics.

Analysis of Buddhist sculpture art in Wei, Jin, southern and Northern Dynasties

The emergence and development of Buddhist sculpture has completely changed the original Chinese ancient sculpture, rich China sculpture theme, greatly promote the development of the Chinese sculpture, in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Buddhist sculpture received considerable development, the art form is abundant, representative of the ＂ slim but clear appearance＂ and＂ images of noble figures ＂two kinds of modeling features. From the perspective of historical background and aesthetic orientation, this paper analyzes and studies the overall features of the art of carving art in this historical period, as well as its profound influence on the development of Chinese Buddhist statues.

Beyond Agricola: The Multiple Origins of European Knowledge in Adam Schall von Bell’s Chinese Mining and Metallurgy Handbook Kunyu Gezhi(1640)

In 2015, a previously unknown manuscript was discovered in the Nanjing Library. It contained a Chinese mining and metallurgy handbook, and was identified as a copy of the Kunyu gezhi 坤輿格致, known as the lost Chinese translation of Georgius Agricola’s(1494–1555) De re metallica(1556) by Jesuit Adam Schall von Bell(1592–1666). A closer look at the text, however, reveals that, besides parts of Agricola’s book, content by at least four other European authors was included: Vannoccio Biringuccio(1480–1539), Modestinus Fachs(?–before 1595), Lazarus Ercker(1528/30–1594), and José de Acosta(1539/40–1599/1600). This study demonstrates how their books became available in China, why they were selected as sources for the Kunyu gezhi, and how they were eventually used and incorporated. From this, it becomes apparent that Schall and his collaborators spared no effort to conduct this ambitious knowledge transfer project, and to present European technology at its best to the emperor.

Unraveling the Pattern Weaving Technology in Ming Dynasty

The Ming dynasty （1368 - 1644） inherited the lens-standing culture in China, of course including the textile technology. Besides a large amount of sinsle color damask silk, many pattern woven silk including dragon robes, patterned costumes and luxurious silk textiles are found in complicated and colorful pattern woven brocade called zhuang hua. It was prevailed in Ming dynasty when compared with the frequency of the name chuang hua recorded in related historical documents. These pattern silk and brcrade were produced by the advanced pattern weavin8 technology, which was well developed in Ming dynasty. From historical documents of＂Tian gong kai wu＂, Exploitation of the works of nature, there is the detailed description of the draw loom （hua Io ji） which can weave normal patterned textiles. It also indicated that to produce dragon robes needed much more high technique, similar to the hua Io ）i but more complicated and difficult. A big draw loom is found to weave Nanjing Yen brocade today inherits the technolosy to weave zhuang hua brocade. After sorting the historical documents, it is found that some records are coincident with the existed materials, both the silk textiles and weaving technology. With these evidences research and exploration, this dissertatien tries to unravel the pattern weaving technolosy in the Ming dynasty.

The Personality Beauty Thought in New Accounts of Old Episodes

“New Accounts of Old Episodes”is a classic handed down in China,which reflects the personality image and charm of the scholars in the Wei and Jin dynasties with the original ecological narrative technique.The scholars of the Wei and Jin Dynasties were detached,facing the world with an aesthetic attitude beyond secular utilitarianism,etiquette,and real life,establish a graceful social stage of vulgarity,create a unique personality beauty,providing valuable ideological wealth for the cultivation of poetic spirit,poetic dwelling,aesthetic style,transcend personality,and wisdom.

Wei,Jin,and Northern and Southern Dynasties:The First Documented Painters

The paintings of the Wei and Jin periods retained the legacy of the Han Dynasty's emphasis on"promoting moral principles and edifying virtues,"while also emerging as independent works of art.During the Wei and Jin periods,"pure"philosophy and"pure"art were born,progressing in parallel and influencing each other.As the Confucianism of the Han Dynasty collapsed,it gave rise to the ideas and value pursuits of the aristocratic clans,along with the trend of venerating Laozi and Zhuangzi while exploring the true essence of the universe,known as"Wei-Jin metaphysics."

清代地震灾害史研究综述

为了深化地震灾害史的研究,为今后地震灾害的防范和应对提供借鉴和启示,通过历史文献分析法缕述新中国成立以来清代地震灾害相关研究成果,以展现清代地震灾害史研究现状。研究表明,清代地震史料收集、地震总体研究、地震专题研究、地震灾害应对等研究成果丰富且具有阶段性特征,但也存在史料挖掘运用不足、研究视角与维度狭窄、研究范式单一等问题。在今后的研究中应进一步挖掘民间文献,以交叉研究作为创新的突破口,充分发挥地震灾害史研究的社会价值。

两晋“碑文似赋”说补证

碑文于两晋之时多为叙述性,近于赋之铺陈,故易受赋影响,常主动借鉴赋之写法。两晋碑文沿袭汉碑传统,在题材、句式、用韵上多与辞赋“同体异用”,且常以赋家笔法叙述碑主家族功勋、描绘历史背景、敷陈碑主德行事业,使得碑文辞采增华,赋化倾向更为明显。“碑文似赋”实与魏晋文学自觉相关,援赋笔破体为文,虽使碑文一改汉魏体制,篇幅增长,但在整体上增强了其文学性、可读性和感染力,强化了其文学张力,使得泛文学观念落到了实处。

“森列”与“饾饤”:南宋园林假山营造的两种类型及其结合发展

现有中国园林史研究已经认识到南宋是园林中石假山营造得到重要发展的时期,然而南宋园林假山营造的具体方式及其形态特点尚未得到有效探讨。在深入研读相关文献与图像的基础上,结合历史来源与后世影响,探讨南宋园林假山营造的类型及其发展。首先从“置”与“叠”2种基本方式出发,在历史语境中探讨“森列”与“饾饤”这2类南宋常见的假山营造类型及其来源与影响;进而关注二者在仿“飞来峰”营造中的结合与发展,从而更清晰地认识南宋,乃至其后的石假山营造。这一研究将对其后中国园林假山发展的认识,乃至当代假山特点的理解提供坚实的历史理论基础。

从“水引,挼如箸大”看魏晋南北朝时期箸的形制与使用

《齐民要术》作为魏晋南北朝时期重要农书,不仅记载了重要的农业生产技术以及食物加工方式,而且记载了一些饮食器具的形制,其中“水引,挼如箸大”是对当时筷子的直接描述。本文通过这条文献记载来考证与勾勒魏晋南北朝时期箸的形态规制,并由此探讨当时箸的使用情况,进一步考证魏晋南北朝时期饮食生活的历史状况以及饮食文化特征。

环境史视野下辽金韩州城迁徙考论

人是以自然环境为依托进行生产生活的,同时自然环境又影响和制约人的生计活动。辽金时期韩州治所韩州城的建置及迁徙就是环境制约下人地关系的动态演变。辽圣宗时韩州城(位于内蒙古通辽市科尔沁左翼后旗)始建于科尔沁沙地东南缘,后来因气候转寒及人类活动的影响,韩州城受风沙围困,兴宗时被迫徙于白塔寨(位于今辽宁省铁岭市昌图县);金初,地处白塔寨的韩州城又因受辽河水患侵扰,迁至柳河县(位于今辽宁省铁岭市八面城镇);海陵王时,地处柳河县的韩州城因地理位置偏僻,又迁徙到九百奚营(位于今吉林省四平市梨树县白山乡)。韩州城的“三迁四治”反映了辽金时期人与环境的互动方式及区域环境变迁,是辽金时期环境与社会相互作用、相互依存的缩影。

冯友兰和汤用彤魏晋玄学观比较研究

对于魏晋玄学,冯友兰和汤用彤都对之有着深入的研究和精辟的论断,其学术贡献也为学界所称道。冯友兰和汤用彤的魏晋玄学研究有共同之处,都认为玄学受到汉末名学的影响,主要问题和代表人物基本一致,也都强调竹林玄学是对正始玄学的补充。不过,冯友兰和汤用彤在研究方法以及对玄学的界定等方面也存在明显的不同。研究冯友兰和汤用彤的魏晋玄学观,不仅有助于我们从宏观角度对魏晋玄学有一个整体的认识,也会为我们了解近现代视域下的魏晋玄学研究提供一个新的维度。

金代东北地区燃料消耗与生态效应

金代东北地区的燃料主要取自周边天然森林,以木柴和木炭为大宗。金代处于我国第三个寒冷期,冬季漫长严寒,加之人口增长及冶炼业的兴盛,使燃料消耗量大增。但是金代东北地区天然森林资源丰富,总体上地广人稀,人们伐薪烧炭并未对森林资源造成不可再生性的破坏,不过也有个别地区出现了区域生态危机。文章从金代东北地区燃料消耗与生态效应的角度,探讨金代区域人地关系,以期更好地了解金代东北地区的环境与社会,为今天东北地区的环境保护与社会发展提供历史借鉴。