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The Date of the Hsia Calendar Hsia Hsiao Chêng

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Herbert Chatley
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In a well-known collection of ritual notes, the Ta Tai Li (The Rites of the Elder Tai), considered to be earlier than the Han period (206 B.C.), there is a calendar section (No. 47), termed Hsia Hsiao Chêng (The Lesser Canon of the Hsia), which is traditionally regarded as a true relic of the Hsia dynasty (about 2000 B.C.). It was translated by DouglasR. K.Professor (Orientalia Antiqua, 1882) and was regarded by him and some other students as of great antiquity. On the other hand, it is very difficult to understand, in the light of modern discoveries as to the Shang culture (circa 1200 B.C.), how such a document could have been produced in 2000 B.C., and the more conservative students are unwilling to admit that it can be much older than, say, 500 B.C.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 70 , Issue 4 , October 1938 , pp. 523 - 533
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1938

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page 524 note 1 Two days later if the sun's motion is assumed to be uniform, as was thought to be the case in Han times.