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EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES
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This article deals with facets of the political ideology of late pre-imperial and early imperial China as documented by remnants of a dozen texts belonging to an under-explored genre known in English as weft (wei 緯) writings or the “Confucian Apocrypha.” Its focus is on the transcendence of hierarchy and sovereignty, the transfer of dynastic legitimacy, and the pragmatic vehicle of “tangible” revelation. After a terminological introduction, the study turns to weft concepts of society and sovereignty as being consubstantial with the intrinsic hierarchical order of the universe, then moves on to explore how these concepts are dealt with in a cluster of weft narrative materials. Focused on a rite of jade disc immersion, the final section bridges the gap between the “mythical” sphere of weft narrative and conventional history, showing how some weft ideas actually determined political action. Weft theories contributed to the formation of the early imperial ideas of sovereignty and legitimacy and remained active throughout the early medieval era, having a lasting impact on the political sphere as well as liturgical practices intended to reenact the transcendent experience of epiphany.
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“The expressions chenwei 讖緯 (“predictions and weft” or “predictive weft”) and weishu 緯書 (“weft writings”), both favored by modern scholarship, seem of comparatively late origin.”
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“The original terminology of the texts under consideration was much more varied than their modern designations suggest.”
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“Guangwu relied as heavily as Wang Mang on predictions.”
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“From the late Han era on, the phrase tuwei 圖緯 (“charts and the weft,” or “illustrated weft”) occurs frequently to designate these documents.”
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“In weft literature, the organization of human society is understood not as being in the first place the creation of an individual or human group, but as being consubstantial with the intrinsic hierarchical order of the universe.”
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“But this cosmological justification of human hierarchy is also formulated in the same Regulations Chiseled by Qian, which sees it as parallel to the binary hierarchy of Yang (Heaven, above) and Yin (Earth, below) in the following terms: 君道倡始, 臣道終正.是以乾位在亥, 坤位在未, 所以明陰陽之職, 定君臣之 位也.”
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“Invariably in both renditions, human hierarchy is rooted in low-ranking civil service and topped by the ancestral temple (the past sovereigns), while the reigning sovereign occupies the penultimate rank.”
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“In Germ of the Primordial Mandate, an abridged rendition of Ji Chang's reception of the mandate retains only four elements: (a) the cinnabar writ (danshu); (b) the proclamation of Zhou kingship; (c) calendar reform; and (d) the execution of the perfidious Marquis (hou 侯) 145 of Chong 崇, named Hu 虎, whose defamation had caused Ji Chang to be briefly imprisoned by Di Xin.146”
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“Importantly, even though he never was a political ruler, Confucius himself was conferred a tangible revelation of sovereignty.”
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“In Accurate Observations, Jie's fate is foreboded by the appearance of a baleful comet by the name of Wry Arrow (Wangshi 枉矢).128”
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“In Han times, wei 緯 primarily meant a parallel of latitude, without any connection to predictions or the Classics.”
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“In quoted material, the former does not appear before the early fourth century, 30 while the first firmly datable mentions of the latter appear to date to the fifth century (C.E.).”
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“Texts belonging to either sort were kept within the Imperial Library until the Tang at least, the repeated governmental prohibitions being solely directed against private ownership of copies outside the Palace.”
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“However, most of this literature was lost by the Song 宋 dynasty (-) and only a handful of texts, poorly transmitted, remain today, plus thousands of excerpts quoted in Chinese and Japanese sources.”
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“Also, the senior servicemen of the first line and the ancestral temple of the sixth line from the hierarchy in Regulations Chiseled by Qian do not appear in this fivefold pattern.”
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“However, weft sources often disagree on the correlation of a given ruler with a particular color and agent, suggesting that there did not exist a unified system.”
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“This is particularly clear in a few passages from a “weft of the Changes” (Yiwei 易緯) known as Regulations Chiseled by Qian (Qian zuodu 乾鑿度) [no.].”
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“In these texts, not only is hierarchy immanent in mankind due to its cosmic origin and nature, the forms of sovereignty themselves basically correspond to cosmic norms.”
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“in the example above, Xiaoguo corresponds to the eight hundred feudatories (babai zhuhou 八百諸侯), Meng to the twenty-seven grand masters (ershiqi dafu 二十七大夫), Yi to the nine ministers (jiu qing 九卿), Jian to the three dukes (sangong), and Tai to the son of Heaven (tianzi).”
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“Typically, these responses concern the timeliness or untimeliness and regularity or abnormality of astronomical phenomena, the abundance or paucity of harvests, and the appearance of propitious or ill-omened beasts and plants.”
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“The text first connects the lines of the hexagrams with the duration of the tropical, or solar, year (“ ¼ days”), 49 then enunciates the following guideline: 以卦用事, 一卦六爻, 爻一日, 凡六日.初用事, 一日 [天王] (元士) 諸侯也.二 日大夫也.三日卿, 四日三公也.五日辟, 六日宗廟.爻辭善則善, 凶則凶.”
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“Not only is Regulations Chiseled by Qian one of the earliest surviving weft texts, it is also one of the very few of them today not in a fragmentary condition-the extant version has two chapters (juan 卷).”
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“No less than different titles of weft texts are mentioned, including variants.”
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“On a more technical level, the vertical, six-line structure of hexagrams is described as encapsulating human hierarchy, beginning with the first (or lower) line: 初爲元士, 二爲大夫, 三爲三公, 四爲諸侯, 五爲天子, 上爲宗廟.”
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“This edition, according to Yasui's own estimate, contains % of “predictions,” % of “weft,” and % of various other materials.”
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“Interestingly, Chapter of the same Weft text-as poorly transmitted as the first one, if not more corrupted 46proposes a variant of this passage.The text deals with a technique used to associate each hexagram line with a social rank.”
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“For example, hexagrams Xiaoguo 小過, Meng 蒙, Yi 益, Jian 漸, and Tai 泰 are allocated to the first month.”
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“Five series of twelve hexagrams are thus defined, but only the series called “son of Heaven” seems to obey an internal logic: from the hexagram Fu 復 (Yang appearing within Yin in the eleventh month) to Kun 坤 (pure Yin in the next tenth month), it clearly follows the twin fluctuation of Yin and Yang throughout a full annual cycle.”
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“One of its surviving fragments describes a simple binary rule for the succession of kings (wang 王).According to this rule, the reign of a first king is rooted in the Heavenly Way (ben tiandao 本天 道), whose qualities are “family closeness and substantive frugality” (qin qin er zhi sheng 親親而質省).Once”
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“A hierarchical pattern similar to that in the second fragment above appears in another weft of the Changes, Examining the Charts (Jilan tu 稽覽圖) [no.], also subsisting in two chapters.55 Just like Regulations Chiseled by Qian, this weft text comes with a commentary ascribed to Zheng Xuan.”
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“Variants of this motif abound in Chinese sources, describing the auspicious or inauspicious responses of Heaven and Earth to a virtuous or evil reign.”
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“The meaning of these titles is not always clear, not to mention, in some cases, the purpose of the texts themselves and the meaning of their”
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“It describes a method for distributing hexagrams in groups of five allocated to the twelve months, for a total of sixty hexagrams-leaving aside the four primary hexagrams Kan 坎, Zhen 震, Li 離 and Dui 兌.”
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“A commentary, ascribed to Zheng Xuan, on the first chapter exclaims: 天地陰陽尚有尊卑先後之序, 而況人道乎！”
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“After Di Xin, Heaven's mandate passed on to the house of Zhou.”
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“The expected epiphany turned out to be a fluvial revelation, which involved a fish bearing readable writings, followed by a a scarlet red crow made of heavenly fire.”
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“Yao sunk a jade disc 166 into the [river] Luo.167 A dark turtle bearing a writ on its back appeared, scarlet red signs on its back shell forming characters, and stopped at the altar.168”
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“As we shall see further on, Jie was eventually removed and the heavenly mandate passed on to the house of Shang/Yin.”
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“A fragment from Accurate Observations deals with the notification he received from divine powers concerning the part he was expected to play in the forthcoming dynastic change:”
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“To the atrocities ascribed to him in the Records of the Historian, 131 Accurate Observations adds abnormal phenomena, which were interpreted as portents of divine displeasure and manifestations of a state of general cosmic dysfunction.”
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“As Zhou (Di Xin) [still] lived and the three humane ones 147 [still] adhered [to him], Heir Apparent 148 Fa had ascended the throne [but] had not proclaimed himself king.He crossed [the Yellow River] at the Meng ford.149 Midstream he received [King] Wen's mandate and awaited Heaven's”
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“Another Accurate Observations fragment ascribes the same performance to Shun, in a similar context of fin de règne and successional incertitude.Shun sinks a jade disc in the river, provoking a flash of bright light, then a yellow dragon comes out of the water, next to the altar”
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“King Cheng of the Zhou celebrated the rite of Yao and Shun.He sunk a jade disc in the [Yellow] River.White clouds rose and green clouds, drifting, arrived, then there was a verdant dragon, carrying on its back a chart, which approached the River.175”
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“Unfortunately, no surviving fragment documents the nature of the chart.”
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“King Zheng of Zhao 179 sunk a white jade disc in the [Yellow] River.There was a Black Duke, who emerged from the River and addressed Zheng, saying: “The ancestral dragon 180 has arrived and the heavenly treasure has opened, in the center of which there is a jade tablet [one] foot and two [inches long].”181”
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“During Di Xin's rule, “ten suns conflicted and earth rained on Bo 亳,” the Shang/Yin capital.132”
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“According to Accurate Observations, the Elder Duke (taigong 太公)-Jiang's later honorific title as a renowned strategist 139 -went fishing by the Pan stream 磻溪 (a tributary of the river Wei 渭 in modern Shaanxi).In a nightly dream, the god of the Northern Dipper (Beidou shen 北斗神) suggested to him the idea of attacking Di Xin.140”
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“Interestingly, this revelation bestowed upon Jiang Ziya included the statement of his future reward-to be enfeoffed with the state of Qiand Jiang explicitly put forth this claim when he met with King Wen.”
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“In variants of the fragment ascribed to the same text, both rites are conflated into a single one, King Cheng being granted revelation of a single document, named “Chart of the Dark Shell” (Xuanjia zhi tu (元) [玄] 甲之圖), by a dragon.176”
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“have finally committed suicide, “burning” while “[his] dynasty was annihilated.”133”
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“Ji Chang 姬昌 of Zhou is commonly referred to as King Wen 文王, although he did not officially hold supreme power but laid the ground for his descendants' effective kingship by expanding his territorial control at the expense of Shang/Yin suzerainty.”
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“His acquaintance with weft material is manifest throughout this treatise, in which he names only about a dozen sources, seven of which are weft texts.”
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“As soon as he had been enthroned, he had ordered scholars to collate all such documents, resulting in an official edition spread in the Empire in , shortly before his death.”
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“The earliest application of “weft” to predictions related to the Classics is sometimes ascribed to Zheng Xuan 鄭玄 (- C.E.).”
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“elsewhere in the Records of the Historian, the phrase tushu usually denotes maps and administrative documents, 10 a meaning the Book of the Han and later dynastic histories would retain, except in cases of obvious reference to the aforementioned River Chart and Luo Writ.”
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“To the book, submitted by the esoteric technician Xia Heliang 夏賀良 with full support from the official Li Xun 李尋 (fl.- B.C.E.), was joined a prediction (chen) from a perfected person (zhenren 真人) named Chijing zi 赤 精子, stating that the mandate of sovereignty of the Han had reached a cyclical juncture where it must be renewed.”
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“Weft theories contributed to the formation of the early imperial ideas of sovereignty and legitimacy and remained active throughout the early medieval era, having a lasting impact on the political sphere as well as liturgical practices intended to reenact the transcendent experience of epiphany.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > Abstract
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“In an edict dated B.C.E., Emperor Ai eagerly saw in this revelation the token of the reception of the mandate of sovereignty (shou ming zhi fu 受命之符) by the Han dynasty, only to change his mind less than two months later, rejecting it as false and punishing its proponents, under the pretext that the reforms they had advocated had proved inefficient.”
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“Probably inspired by Emperor Ai's edict, the phrase fuming combines a token (fu 符), originally a “symbol” or tessera used for authentication, 16 with an order (ming 命), here denoting the mandate of sovereignty conferred by Heaven upon kings or emperors.”
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“About a century later, Wang Chong's 王充 Lun heng 論衡 (c. C.E.), which criticizes predictions while frequently mentioning them, still uses phrases such as chenshu miwen 讖書祕文 (“predictive writings and secret texts”).”
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“Whatever documents the Huainanzi thus referred to, they must be distinguished from what would also be called “predictive writings” in the Han 漢 ( B.C.E.- C.E.) era.In particular, they bear no relationship with the Classics (jing 經).”
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“The reception of the mandate by the ruler is made luminously obvious by the order of Heaven and Earth.Therefore he must move his residence, modify titles, adopt a new calendar, 81 and change the color of vestments, so as to make clear the heavenly mandate, treasure of the saints.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > 五星之精.
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“The present study is mostly based on disconnected quotations ascribed to a dozen weft sources, often examined out of their original context due to their fragmentary nature.”
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“Here the emphasis is not on stellar order itself, but rather on a generalized state of harmony, which encompasses all levels from the micro-to the macrocosm-the person, the family, society as a whole, remote regions, and natural as well as supernatural phenomena-and the propitious effects of the ruler's virtue (de 德) and enlightenment (ming 明).”
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“諸侯不上奉王之 [正] (政), 則不得即位. [正] (政) 不由王出, (則) 不得 [焉正] (爲政). 王不承於天以制號令, 則無法. 天不得正其元, 則不得成其化也.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > 五星之精.
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“The fragment states that the second and third principles (reverence and formality) were each born out of the limitations of their respective preceding principle (loyalty and reverence).”
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“According to Regulations Chiseled by Qian, the structures both of human society and of the hexagrams of the Changes share a vertical logic, expressed here in the basic context of prognostication and reversal of fortune.”
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“今人主和德於上, 百姓和合於下, 故心和則氣和, 氣和則形和, 形和則聲和, 聲 和則天地之和應矣.故陰陽和, 風雨時, 甘露降, 五穀登, 六畜蕃, 嘉禾興, 朱草 生, 山不童, 澤不涸.此和之至也.”
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“Due to the thematic richness of the corpus, data of different natures naturally coexist therein-hence the Prévert inventory quoted above.”
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“Yasui Kozan 安居香山 (-) and Nakamura Shohachi 中 村璋八 carefully collected both materials-full texts and fragmentsand compiled what may be called the weft corpus, published as a sixvolume critical edition under the title Isho shusei 緯書集成.”
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“The mid-Qing 清 (-) dynasty exegete Zhang Huiyan 張惠言 (-) invites the reader to distinguish this technique from the usual method of pairing trigrams and hexagrams with calendar data, known as guaqi 卦氣 (“diagrams and pneumata”).”
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“That such a model leaves little room for human personality and creativity is obvious, but finds its justification in the simple fact that the person of the ruler is viewed as partaking of universal equilibrium.”
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“Besides a change of regnal title, the accession of a new ruler implies many symbolic and practical adjustments designed to reflect and espouse the change of macrocosmic regimen.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > 五星之精.
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“It is tempting to interpret these data as being a clear rhetorical manifestation of the well-known interweaving of socio-political and cosmological concerns in classical China, or as reflecting “the mutual construction of cosmology and power,” to quote Aihe Wang.”
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“The substantive and the formal change as they recur, succeeding to one another when they reach their limit and beginning again when their cycle is complete.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > 五星之精.
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“The person chosen by Heaven to assume monarchical power may only ascend the throne once all the feudatories have recognized his legitimacy, thereby confirming that he is the right candidate.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > 五星之精.
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“The whole passage this excerpt comes from is not entirely clear and it is tempting to regard it as being textually corrupt.”
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“The ruler of humans contains the light of Heaven, relies on the Northern Dipper, 70 levels the Seven Regulators, 71 and holds the eight extremities [of the world].Therefore [when] the Way of the enlightened lord and saintly person is rectified, then the sun and moon are resplendent and the five planets regulated.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > .
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“It should also be emphasized that all the instances above occur against the technical background of a text whose main purpose was, according to Nielsen, “[to correlate] the hexagrams of the Book of Changes with the calendars known in the first century [C.E.] in order to be able to calculate the duration”
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“主德大, 則斗極星明, 甘露下.”
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“When the ruler's virtue is grand, the stars of the Dipper 61 and the Polar Star 62 are luminous and sweet dew descends.”
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“The Heavenly mandate is manifest when the new calendar is adopted.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > 五星之精.
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“It may be noted that the figures added to the ranks-, , , and alter the reference to Zhou officialdom only in the case of the nine ministers, which Hucker documents for the entire imperial era, but not”
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“During the Former Han 前漢 dynasty ( B.C.E.- C.E.), “one of the leading theorists” of this”
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“Here again, whatever individuality and free will may have been conceded to the Verdant Emperor and his twenty-seven successors would seem to be of secondary import to (since it is totally absent from) the logic at work, which implies, for example, that a sovereign ruling by virtue of the South (agent Fire and color red) must have a successor ruling by virtue of the center (agent Soil and color yel”
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“This threefold system assigns King Wen's guiding principle to the lowest rank, thus perhaps departing from the traditional high Confucian regard for Zhou kingship.”
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“Once these earthly qualities in turn are lost, the next king then reverts to the former heavenly profile-an explicit case of binary cycle, which leaves out the third component we more than half expect to find next: the Human Way.”
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“In addition to their heterodox reputation, they are considered (and often prove to be) corrupted due to their textual history of repeated proscription, loss, unclear transmission lines, and suspected forgery.Even though the most obvious errors can be corrected, the risk of misinterpretation may never be totally excluded.”
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“Zheng's commentary probably owes something to the later strata of the composite Zhuangzi 莊子.”
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“蒼帝之始二十八世, 滅蒼者翼也.滅翼者斗, 滅斗者叄, 滅叄者虛, 滅虛者房.”
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“Thus commented upon in the light of the Five Agents theory, the fragment appears to unfold the following spatiotemporal sequence of sovereigns, beginning and ending in the eastern quadrant: Verdant Emperor (East), Yao 堯 (South), Shun 舜 (center), Yu 禹 (West), Tang 湯 (North), and King Wen 文王 (East again).”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > 五星之精.
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“The anonymous commentator-perhaps the third-century scholar Song Jun 宋均, who is named in the majority of fragments of this text to which a commentary is attached-adds names of mythic rulers to the sequence in the following manner:”
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“Prophecy still belonged to the lore of the technicians in Sima Qian's time, and the climactic production of political predictions and”
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“伏羲氏有天下, 龍馬負圖出于河, 遂法之畫八卦, 又龜書洛出之也.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > Epiphanies of Sovereign Legitimacy
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“Weft fragments challenge the received understanding of these successive systems as being fixed and of occurrences not fitting in them as betraying later interpolations.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > Implications and Hypotheses
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“According to the well-known account in the Records of the Historian, Yao had ordered Yu's father, Gun 鯀, to find a means to control the repeated flooding of the Yellow River.Gun had attempted for nine years to confine the waters within stone embankments but had eventually failed and been executed.Having succeeded Yao, Shun ordered Yu to resume his father's assignment.Yu agreed.However, rather than”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > .
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“A first fragment recounts how a phoenix released a chart (tu) it carried in its mouth in front of the Yellow Emperor, who kowtowed twice before accepting it.”
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“In Germ of the Primordial Mandate, the story is told quite differently, though still in a fluvial context.”
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“堯率舜等, 遊於首山, 觀於黃河, 有五老遊於河渚.一老曰: 河圖將來告帝期.二老曰: 河圖將來告帝謀.三老曰: 河圖將來告帝書.四老曰: 河圖將來告帝 圖. 五老曰: 河圖將來告帝符.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > Epiphanies of Sovereign Legitimacy
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“黃帝受圖, 有五始.元者, 氣之始.春者, 四時之始.王者, 受命之始.正月者, 政 教之始.公卽位者, 一國之始.”
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“Just like the correlation between mythic rulers and constellations, Tang's title exemplifies not only the congruence between human society and stellar (heavenly) order, but also the transcendent nature of Chinese sovereignty.”
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“唐帝遊河渚, 赤龍負圖以出.圖赤色如錦狀, 赤玉爲匣, 白玉爲檢, 黃珠爲泥, (元) [玄] 玉爲鑑.章曰: 天皇上帝合神制署天上帝孫伊 (克) [堯] 龍潤 (滑圓) [涓圖] 在唐典.(右) [太] 尉舜等百二十臣發視之, 藏之大麓.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > .
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“The fragment recounts how, as soon as Fu Xi acceded to the throne, two supernatural beasts sprang out of the two central rivers, emissaries sent to reveal to Fu Xi two esoteric documents, the famous River Chart and Luo Writ.”
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“堯時, 龍馬銜甲, 赤文綠色, 臨壇上.甲似龜背, 廣袤九尺, 圓理平上.五色文有 列星之分, 斗正之度, 帝王錄紀, 興亡之數.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > Epiphanies of Sovereign Legitimacy
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- Not matchedcites JushūIsho shusei, 2:75
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“After the death of Shun, whose son Shang Jun 商均 did not seem capable of ruling the empire, the feudatories turned to Yu instead, who had earned the gratitude of the relieved populations.Yu peacefully ascended the throne.”
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“On this newly erected religious site, peculiar meteorological phenomena then introduced the appearing of a supernatural creature carrying in its mouth a solid, shell-shaped document.”
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“Our survey naturally begins with Fu Xi 伏羲, the first of the Three August Ones (sanhuang 三皇) in most of the sources of traditional Chinese historiography.”
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“Thus was justified the congruence of the Han dynasty with loyalty-the highest rank, corresponding to the unifying principle of Heaven (tiantong 天統).”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > 五星之精.
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“At least for the author of the text the fragment derives from, the most important feature of the story is unquestionably the epiphanic transfer of a revealed document from one ruler to the next.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > The [trigram]
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“Accurate Observations then introduces the fifth ruler mentioned in the opening chapter of the Records of the Historian, 107 Yao.”
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“But sovereignty sanctioned from above is a double-edged weapon, for Heaven may signify its taking back of the mandate as authoritatively as it had conferred it.”
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“In the Accurate Observations version, it is interesting to note that the attached (and anonymous) commentary suggests that the Yellow Emperor conformed his governance to stellar order.”
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“The final allusion to the “writ of the sparrow” (queshu 雀書) suggests that the whole experience was a reenactment, or a direct extension, of King Wen's past investiture.”
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“Expectedly, such a governmentally and morally deficient virtue soon provoked cosmic discontentment, which became manifest as”
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“this abridged rendition, the same beast which appeared in the narratives of the revelations bestowed upon the Yellow Emperor and Shun.”
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“It is well known that political legitimacy and the succession of sovereigns are at the core of weft ideology, and that the authors of weft texts singled out every new ruler by means of extraordinary conception or birth and peculiar bodily features, and constructed a concept of sovereignty based on stories of supernatural appointment and of postenthronement thanksgiving performances to the highest”
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“Again the revelation is of crucial import to the chosen recipient.”
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“The object granted Yao had the shape of a large back half of a turtle shell-reminiscent perhaps of the heat-fissured front half (plastron) used by diviners-covered with symbolically colored signs revealing crucial knowledge concerning astronomy, the calendar, historiography, and how to predict the fate of kings, in all likeliness including Yao's own.”
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“Weft literature also ascribes a performance of Yao's rite to the founder of the first Chinese empire.Although the scriptural contents of the jade tablet are missing, the narrative structure of the fragment is evidently based on the same pattern as those dealt with above.”
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“As in the case of King Wen of Zhou above, the heavenly messenger takes the guise of a sparrow, only it is now white, not red.”
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“And yet, even though Sima Qian did not include detailed accounts of ancient traditions of esoteric experiences with direct political implications in the openings chapters of his work, such material existed in his time.”
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“鳳凰止庭, 朱草生郊, 嘉禾孳連, 甘露潤液, 醴泉出山.修壇河洛.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > Epiphanies of Sovereign Legitimacy
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- Not matchedcites JushūIsho shusei, 2:76
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“Another fragment of the same text introduces Huang Di, the Yellow Emperor, who is either the last of the Three August Ones or the first of the Five Emperors (wudi 五帝) according to the sources:”
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“A recurring theme in the exegesis of the opening entry of the Spring and Autumn chronicle of Lu, 101 these Five Beginnings owe perhaps something to the ideas ascribed to Dong Zhongshu.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > Epiphanies of Sovereign Legitimacy
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- Not matchedcites Huang Guozhen, Dong Zhongshu Chunqiu fanlu yu weishu Chun qiu wei
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“榮光起河, 休氣四塞, 白雲起, 回風搖.龍馬銜甲, 赤文綠色, 臨壇止霽, 吐甲圖 而䠠.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > Epiphanies of Sovereign Legitimacy
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- Not matchedcites JushūIsho shusei, 2:76
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“Traditional historiography regards Shun's successor, Yu or Yu the Great 大禹, as the first ruler of the Xia dynasty, which is regarded as marking the beginning of hereditary monarchy in China.”
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“帝軒提像, 配永循機.天地休通, 五行期化.河龍圖出, 洛龜書威, 赤文 (像) [綠] 字, 以授軒轅.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > Epiphanies of Sovereign Legitimacy
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites JushūIsho shusei, 2:73
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“Fu Xi used the former as a model to conceive the eight trigrams, which could not have been possible without the prior dragonhorse epiphany.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > Epiphanies of Sovereign Legitimacy
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“In the same fragment, the dragon first appeared to Yao's mother bearing on its back a chart (tu) prophesizing the birth, with a graphic depiction (tu) of Yao's future bodily appearance.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > .
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“The basic definition of sovereignty in imperial China was theocratic, or more accurately cosmocratic, and therefore, calling any specific political entity in Chinese imperial history a”
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In the paper
“Excessive counterexamples of rulership such as Jie (Di Gui) and Zhou (Di Xin) could inspire imperial hopefuls and provide them with adequate propaganda tools to justify the cosmic need for a dynastic change.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > Implications and Hypotheses
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In the paper
“Long before Ban Biao wrote his short essay On the Mandate of Kings, the ideas which later crystallized into the weft narratives of sovereignty contributed to the formation of a concept of political legitimacy as depending solely on cosmic mechanisms and therefore-at least in theory-unchallengeable by human designs.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > Implications and Hypotheses
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In the paper
“A transcendent, hence unquestionable legitimacy was thus conferred upon the monarch, especially useful in contexts of instability and competition.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > Implications and Hypotheses
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In the paper
“When Ban Biao composed his essay On the Royal Mandate, he was not creating ex nihilo a new theory of transcendent sovereignty but reformulating earlier ideas such as those found in weft fragments-including that”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > Implications and Hypotheses
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In the paper
“This points to the existence of an intertextual relationship between weft texts, this treatise, and the bamboo annals commentary-or at least that these three works derived their materials from common sources.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > Implications and Hypotheses
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In the paper
“Consequently, even though scholars had soon condemned their heterodoxy, it was naturally for political motives that weft texts came to be repeatedly prohibited.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > Implications and Hypotheses
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In the paper
“Furthermore, if”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > Implications and Hypotheses
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“Indeed, an earlier passage in the Records of the Historian does report the First Emperor's fluvial trip on the Jiang that year, but not that a jade disc was immersed on that special occasion.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > Implications and Hypotheses
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- Not matchedcites Shi ji
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In the paper
“It is nevertheless clear that monarchy was a heavenly ordained institution in imperial China, just as it was”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > Implications and Hypotheses
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- Rests on an assumption: The ideological comparison between Chinese cosmocratic sovereignty and European Divine Right is valid despite different historical contexts.
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In the paper
“Beyond evident differences in scope and nature, all these liturgical programs, by reenacting a pattern of ritual behavior anciently leading to the transcendent experience of epiphany, shared a common yearning for the activation or reactivation of mediated individual contacts with the divine realm.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > Implications and Hypotheses
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In the paper
“There is no doubt that Yao's prestigious precedent authorized any imperial contender with the surname Liu 劉 (including Liu Xiu, the future Guangwu) to produce tangible revelations of claimed epiphanic provenance asserting the legitimacy of his claim.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > Implications and Hypotheses
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In the paper
“Rather than a jade disc sunk in the hope of provoking an epiphany, both Taoist rites were a form of divine petitioning probably connected with the ritual petition to the Three Offices (sanguan 三官) of Heaven, Earth, and Water of the Celestial Master (tianshi 天師) church.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > Implications and Hypotheses
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In the paper
“Interestingly, in this essay, Ban Biao traced the ancestry of the Han house back to Yao.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > Implications and Hypotheses
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In the paper
“but also that these narratives were more than literary motifs or discarded myths.”
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In the paper
“But this never implied, as Hegel mistakenly believed, that China would drift through a perpetual state of historical infancy and that, during more than two millennia, Chinese society, politics, and government would never evolve from primitive despotism.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > Implications and Hypotheses
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In the paper
“The ritual immersion of a jade disc doubtless prefigures a similar rite performed by the emperor during the feng and shan ceremony and may have inspired two later distinct rites: the casting of a fish, in the Great Clarity (Taiqing 太清) alchemical tradition as well as in early Upper Clarity (Shangqing 上清) texts, and the Casting of Dragons and Tablets (tou longjian 投龍簡), which perhaps coexisted at”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > Implications and Hypotheses
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In the paper
“Understandably, later emperors realized that these tools could easily be used against them to justify their overthrow.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > Implications and Hypotheses
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In the paper
“The purpose of these epiphanic agents in the narrative format of weft fragments is always to deliver to the newly elected cosmocrat the transcendent credentials sanctioning his sovereign legitimacy.”
§ EPIPHANIES OF SOVEREIGNTY AND THE RITE OF JADE DISC IMMERSION IN WEFT NARRATIVES > Implications and Hypotheses
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The authors state this as an assumption.
The weft texts can be seen and used as an alternative source of knowledge for studying Chinese thought in the early imperial era.
“the basic assumption of this study is that these texts may be seen and used as an alternative source of knowledge for the study of Chinese thought in the early imperial”
The authors state this as an assumption.
The Yellow Emperor as depicted in the Accurate Observations version takes up the construction of stellar order.
“my rendering assumes that the Yellow Emperor as depicted here takes up the construction of stellar order, which matches his cosmic function as the god of the center and of the planet Saturn (Zhen xing 鎮星).”
The paper relies on this without support.
The color xuan is associated with the agent Water, the northern sky, and Heaven.
“a turtle of dark color, xuan 玄, the color of the agent Water and of the northern sky, and the symbol of Heaven.”
The paper relies on this without support.
There is a valid correlation between mythic rulers and constellations.
“Just like the correlation between mythic rulers and constellations, Tang's title exemplifies not only the congruence between human society and stellar (heavenly) order, but also the transcendent nature of Chinese sovereignty.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Internal and chronological coherence of a narrative is a reliable indicator of its historicity.
“The historicity of the episode is strengthened by its internal and chronological coherence”
The paper relies on this without support.
Extant weft fragments preserve ideas and narratives from the early imperial period that can be used to reconstruct early sovereignty ideology.
“It proves not only that weft narratives of sovereignty and legitimacy-including the”
The paper relies on this without support.
The ideological comparison between Chinese cosmocratic sovereignty and European Divine Right is valid despite different historical contexts.
“a concept of sovereignty having quite a lot in common with the ideology of Divine Right in Medieval Europe.”
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- Authors
- Espesset, G.
- Affiliations
- Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de l'Asie orientale (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Espesset, Grégoire
- ORCID
- Espesset, Grégoire
- Venue
- Early China
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- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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- 2014-07-03
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- 37
- Pages
- 393-443
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- 2325-2324
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- Knowledge Commons (Lakehead University)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Chinese history and philosophy
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › General Arts and Humanities › Cultural and Mythological Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Theology and Sovereignty
- Keywords
- sovereignty, dynastic legitimacy, Epiphany, hierarchy, early imperial China, political ideology, liturgical practice, mythological narrative, transcendence
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
A language model drew the claims from the paper on 2026-10-04, under version 3 of the claim definition (model deepseek-v4.1-flash, prompt extract-v3).
A second model labelled each claim on 2026-10-04 (model jev-1.13-20260917, definition revision gold-guideline-v0.2).
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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