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The Book of Documents (Chinese : 書經; pinyin : Shūjīng; Wade–Giles : Shu King) or the Classic of History, [ b ] is one of the Five Classics of ancient Chinese literature. It is a collection of rhetorical prose attributed to figures of ancient China, and served as the foundation of Chinese political philosophy for over two millennia. The ...
The Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) is a species of the herring family associated with the Pacific Ocean environment of North America and northeast Asia. It is a silvery fish with unspined fins and a deeply forked caudal fin. The distribution is widely along the California coast from Baja California north to Alaska and the Bering Sea; in Asia ...
Herring played an important role in the history of marine fisheries in Europe, [2] and early in the 20th century, their study was fundamental to the development of fisheries science. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] These oily fish [ 5 ] also have a long history as an important food fish , and are often salted , smoked , or pickled .
The toli shad or Chinese herring (Tenualosa toli) is a fish of the family Clupeidae, a species of shad distributed in the western Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal to the Java Sea and the South China Sea. It may be found in Mauritius [2] and the Cambodian Mekong near the Vietnam border. [3] It inhabits fast-flowing, turbid estuaries and ...
Four Books and Five Classics. The Four Books and Five Classics are authoritative and important books associated with Confucianism, written before 300 BC. [1] They are traditionally believed to have been either written, edited or commented by Confucius or one of his disciples. Starting in the Han dynasty, they became the core of the Chinese ...
Book of Han. The Book of Han is a history of China finished in 111 CE, covering the Western, or Former Han dynasty from the first emperor in 206 BCE to the fall of Wang Mang in 23 CE. [1] The work was composed by Ban Gu (32–92 CE), an Eastern Han court official, with the help of his sister Ban Zhao, continuing the work of their father, Ban Biao.
It is considered one of the most important sources on Chinese history and culture. [ 1 ] The title "Twenty-Four Histories" dates from 1775, which was the 40th year in the reign of the Qianlong Emperor. This was when the last volume, the History of Ming, was reworked and a complete set of the histories was produced.
Möllendorff. duin namun i yooni bithe. The Siku Quanshu, literally the Complete Library of the Four Treasuries, [1] was a Chinese encyclopedia commissioned by the Qing dynasty 's Qianlong Emperor in 1772, and completed in 1782. It is the largest collection of books in imperial Chinese history, comprising 36,381 volumes, 79,337 manuscript rolls ...