This book is part of the compendium series. The intention is to help those who can't read Chinese have access to Qi Men Dun Jia Chai Bu and Zhi Run Hour Qi Men Dun Jia charts and calendar. Volume-1 consists of Qi Men Dun Jia Chai Bu and Zhi Run Hour Qi Men method calendar in English from the year 1930 to 2020. Volume-2 consists of Qi Men Dun Jia Yang Dun 540 charts with detail explaination of each chart by palaces. Volume-3 consists of Qi Men Dun Jia Yin Dun 540 charts with detail explaination of each chart by palaces. With the compendium series, readers can: - Use the past event to plot the Qi Men Dun Jia chart and learn from past event - Use the calendar to plot Qi Men Dun Jia chart based on birth date & time - Instant interpretation of Qi Men Dun Jia chart from the information available at each palaces - Use the calendar and charts for Qi Men Dun Jia application (e.g. choosing a good date, time and location) - Quick reference on auspicious and inauspicious Qi Men Dun Jia charts In addition, my next book will be based on Qi Men Dun Jia life reading. So, this compendium will be useful resources to plot Qi Men Dun Jia chart based on birth date & time.

Qi Men Dun Jia is known as "King of Art and Art of King" because it is regarded as the best of breed in Chinese Meta-Physics (King of Art). During the ancient Chinese history, Qi Men Dun Jia can only be practiced by the King (Art of King). Throughout the history of China, Qi Men Dun Jia has played a significant role in shaping China; from the very first emperor Huang Di all the way to Mao Zedong. This book is part of the compendium series. The intention is to help those who can't read Chinese have access to Qi Men Dun Jia Chai Bu and Zhi Run Hour Qi Men method charts and calendar. The compendium series will provides a comprehensive information available to readers that don't even exist in Chinese books. Volume-1 consists of Qi Men Dun Jia Chai Bu and Zhi Run Hour Qi Men method calendar in English from the year 1930 to 2020. Volume-2 consists of Qi Men Dun Jia Yang Dun 540 charts with detail explaination of each chart by palaces. Volume-3 consists of Qi Men Dun Jia Yin Dun 540 charts with detail explaination of each chart by palaces. With the compendium series, readers can: -Use the past event to plot the Qi Men Dun Jia chart and learn from past event -Use the calendar to plot Qi Men Dun Jia chart based on birth date & time -Instant interpretation of Qi Men Dun Jia chart from the information available at each palaces -Use the calendar and charts for Qi Men Dun Jia application (e.g. choosing a good date, time and location) -Quick reference on auspicious and inauspicious Qi Men Dun Jia charts This book is organized into 3 parts. The first part contains references that you need to look for a Qi Men Dun Jia chart. The second part is the list of auspicious and inauspicious charts in Qi Men Dun Jia, which is a key element used in Date Selection. The third part is all the 540 Yin Dun charts in detailed explanation by palaces.

Qi Men Dun Jia is known as "King of Art and Art of King" because it is regarded as the best of breed in Chinese Meta-Physics (King of Art). During the ancient Chinese history, Qi Men Dun Jia can only be practiced by the King (Art of King). Throughout the history of China, Qi Men Dun Jia has played a significant role in shaping China; from the very first emperor Huang Di all the way to Mao Zedong. This book is part of the compendium series. The intention is to help those who can't read Chinese have access to Qi Men Dun Jia Chai Bu and Zhi Run Hour Qi Men method charts and calendar. The compendium series will provides a comprehensive information available to readers that don't even exist in Chinese books. Volume-1 consists of Qi Men Dun Jia Chai Bu and Zhi Run Hour Qi Men method calendar in English from the year 1930 to 2020. Volume-2 consists of Qi Men Dun Jia Yang Dun 540 charts with detail explaination of each chart by palaces. Volume-3 consists of Qi Men Dun Jia Yin Dun 540 charts with detail explaination of each chart by palaces. With the compendium series, readers can: -Use the past event to plot the Qi Men Dun Jia chart and learn from past event -Use the calendar to plot Qi Men Dun Jia chart based on birth date & time -Instant interpretation of Qi Men Dun Jia chart from the information available at each palaces -Use the calendar and charts for Qi Men Dun Jia application (e.g. choosing a good date, time and location) -Quick reference on auspicious and inauspicious Qi Men Dun Jia charts This book is organized into 3 parts. The first part contains references that you need to look for a Qi Men Dun Jia chart. The second part is the list of auspicious and inauspicious charts in Qi Men Dun Jia, which is a key element used in Date Selection. The third part is all the 540 Yang Dun charts in detailed explanation by palaces.

This open access book offers comprehensive information on Wang Yang-ming’s life, helping readers identify and grasp the foundations on which his philosophy was established. Though a great man, Wang had an extremely difficult life, full of many hardships. Based on various official histories, Wang’s own writings, and his disciples’ records, the book explores the legendary life of this ancient philosopher, who not only diligently pursued his objective of living as a sage, but also persistently sought the ideal state of a sage in ideology. The author also shares his own interpretations of the main aspects of Wang’s philosophy using simple and straightforward language. This book will help readers understand and appreciate Wang Yang-ming’s extraordinary life, his generous mind, deep thoughts and bright personality, inspiring them to pursue enriching lives. It offers a unique and insightful work for undergraduate students and all others interested in Wang’s philosophy and life story.

Since 1899 more than 73,000 pieces of inscribed divination shell and bone have been found inside the moated enclosure of the Anyang-core at the former capital of the late Shang state. Nearly all of these divinations were done on behalf of the Shang kingsand has led to the apt characterization that oracle bone inscriptions describe their motivations, experiences, and priorities. There are, however, much smaller sets of divination accounts that were done on behalf of members of the Shang elite other than the king.First noticed in the early 1930's, grouped and periodized shortly thereafter, oracle bone inscriptions produced explicitly by or on behalf of "royal familygroups" reveal information about key aspects of daily life in Shang societythat are barely even mentioned in Western scholarship. The newly published Huayuanzhuang East Oracle Bone inscriptions are a spectacular addition to the corpus of texts from Anyang: hundreds of intact or largely intact turtle shells and bovine scapulae densely inscribed with records of the divinations in which they were used. They were produced on the behalf of a mature prince of the royal family whose parents, both alive and still very much active, almost certainly were the twenty-first Shang king Wu Ding (r. c. 1200 B.C.) and his consort Lady Hao (fu Hao). The Huayuanzhuang East corpus is an unusually homogeneous set of more than two thousand five hundred divination records, produced over a short period of time on behalf of a prince of the royal family. There are typically multiple records of divinations regarding the same or similar topics that can be synchronized together, which not only allows for remarkable access into the esoteric world of divination practice, but also produce micro-reconstructions of what is essentially East Asia's earliest and most complete "day and month planner." Because these texts are unusually linguistically transparent and well preserved, homogeneous in orthography and content, and published to an unprecedentedly high standard, they are also ideal material for learning to read and interpret early epigraphic texts. The Huayuanzhuang East oracle bone inscriptions are a tremendously important Shang archive of "material documents" that were produced by a previously unknown divination and scribal organization. They expose us to an entirely fresh set of perspectives and preoccupationscentering ona member of the royal family at the commencement of China's historical period. The completely annotated English translation of the inscriptions is the first of its kind, and is a vibrant new source of Shang history that can be accessedto rewrite and supplement what we know about early Chinese civilization and life in the ancient world. Before the discerning reader are the motives, preoccupations, and experiences of a late Shang prince working simultaneously in service both for his Majesty, his parents, and hisown family.

“Dunhuang Manuscript Culture” explores the world of Chinese manuscripts from ninth-tenth century Dunhuang, an oasis city along the network of pre-modern routes known today collectively as the Silk Roads. The manuscripts have been discovered in 1900 in a sealed-off side-chamber of a Buddhist cave temple, where they had lain undisturbed for for almost nine hundred years. The discovery comprised tens of thousands of texts, written in over twenty different languages and scripts, including Chinese, Tibetan, Old Uighur, Khotanese, Sogdian and Sanskrit. This study centres around four groups of manuscripts from the mid-ninth to the late tenth centuries, a period when the region was an independent kingdom ruled by local families. The central argument is that the manuscripts attest to the unique cultural diversity of the region during this period, exhibiting—alongside obvious Chinese elements—the heavy influence of Central Asian cultures. As a result, it was much less ‘Chinese’ than commonly portrayed in modern scholarship. The book makes a contribution to the study of cultural and linguistic interaction along the Silk Roads.