Bamboo Annals

Bamboo Annals
Original title竹書紀年
LanguageClassical Chinese
Subjectancient Chinese history
Publication date
before 296 BC
Publication placeState of Wei, ancient China
Bamboo Annals
Traditional Chinese竹書紀年
Simplified Chinese竹书纪年
Literal meaning"The Bamboo Writings Annals"
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhúshū Jìnián
Wade–GilesChu2-shu1 chi4-nien2
IPA[ʈʂǔ.ʂú tɕî.njɛ̌n]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationJūk-syū gei-nìhn
JyutpingZuk1-syu1 gei3-nin4
Southern Min
Tâi-lôTiok-su kí-liân
Middle Chinese
Middle Chineseʈjuwk sho kì nen
Old Chinese
Baxter–Sagart (2014)*truk s-ta C.k(r)ə(ʔ)-s C.nˤing

The Bamboo Annals (Chinese: 竹書紀年; pinyin: Zhúshū Jìnián), also known as the Ji Tomb Annals (Chinese: 汲冢紀年; pinyin: Jí Zhǒng Jìnián), is a chronicle of ancient China. It begins in the earliest legendary time (the age of the Yellow Emperor) and extends to 299 BC, with the later centuries focusing on the history of the State of Wei in the Warring States period. It thus covers a similar period to Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian (91 BC). The original may have been lost during the Song dynasty,[1] and the text is known today in two versions, a "current text" (or "modern text") of disputed authenticity and an incomplete "ancient text".

  1. ^ Knechtges (2014), p. 2343.

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