The Bamboo Annals (Zhushu jinian) is a chronicle of ancient China. It begins at the earliest legendary times (Huangdi) and extends to 299 BC. The original text was interred with the burial of the king of Wei (died 299 BC) and was discovered in AD 281. For this reason, the chronicle survived the great burning of the books by Emperor Shi Huangdi. The Bamboo Annals is one of the two most important ancient texts on early China, the other being the Shiji. Yellow Emperor The Yellow Emperor or Huang Di (Chinese: 黃å¸, Simplified Chinese: 黄å¸, pÄ«nyÄ«n: huángdì) is a legendary Chinese sovereign and cultural hero who is said to be the ancestor of all Han Chinese. ... Qin Shi Huang (秦始皇) (November or December 260 BC - September 10, 210 BC), personal name Zheng, was king of the Chinese State of Qin from 247 BC to 221 BC, and then the first emperor of a unified China from 221 BC to 210 BC, ruling under the name First... The Records of the Grand Historian or the Records of the Grand Historian of China was the magnum opus of Sima Qian, in which he recounted Chinese history from the time of the mythical Yellow Emperor until his own time. ...
References
Nivison D.S. (1993), “Chu shu chi nien”, Early Chinese Texts: a bibliographical guide (editor—Loewe M.) p.39–47 (Berkeley: Society for the Study of Early China).
Legge J. (1865), The Chinese Classics III: The Shoo King Prolegomena (Taipei: Southern Materials Center). (This contains an English translation of the Annals.)
Bamboos are versatile, with species thriving at sea level and at 4,000 meters (13,000 ft.) up mountain slopes.
Bamboo species have flourished for some 60 million years, and paleontologists suspect that early humans in Asia's bamboo country may have used the big grasses to fashion tools or household items, just as the first Europeans worked stone into useful shapes.
Bamboo is the flute from which musicians create melodies, the toy with which children create fantasies, and the prized fishing rods that serve anglers who spin tall tales.
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