CONTENTS Preface...vii Acknowledgments...ix Maps, Tables & Illustrations...xi Map of the Pottery, Rice Plantation & Neolithic Sites...xi The Human Migration Map based on Genetical Analysis...xii Zhou King Muwang s Travel to the Kumtag Desert... xiii Qi Lord Huan gong s Non-existent Campaign to Southern Manchuria...xiv Jupiter and the Iplanet Time Reckoning...xv Twenty-eight Lunar Lodges...xvi Table of Twenty-eight Lunar Lodges and their Degrees based on the Distance of Respective Determinative Stars...xvii Table about the Ancient Thearchs Lineage History... xviii Section One: The Sinitic Theological Framework Chapter I: The Sinitic Theology Epitomized By Epic Asking Heaven...1 Section Two: Pre-History Chapter II: The Book Burning & Efforts at Rebuilding the Lost Classics... 31 Three Dimensional Argumentation to Validate Ancient History... 33 The Tadpole Script the Sole Sinitic Language Characterset... 37 Chapter III: A Migration History Based on the Potteries & Genetics... 39 Potteries Trajectory From Southwestern China towards Japan, Manchuria and Siberia... 39 Extrapolation of Prehistoric People s Domains using the Mitochondrial, Nuclear DNA, & Cranial Analysis on the Ancient Remains Extracted from the Archaeological Sites... 41 Chapter IV: Excavation of the Totem Cultures & Archeological Phases... 45 Phases of the Neolithic Culture: Yangshao, Longshan, Taosi, Erlitou, Erligang...46 The Jade Age... 52 The Sanxingdui Culture... 53 Chapter V: Three Economic Zones & Six Cultural Zones...56 The Xia People & the Dragon Totem... 57 Difference between the Xia People & the Yi People...58 Luo Xianglin s Theory as to the Same Origin of the Chinese & Diaspora of the Five Ancient Tribal Groups...62 Chapter VI: Ancient Tribes, Theologicalization & Mystification...66 Legends Of the Ancient Tribes...67
The Sinitic Heartland versus the [Eastern] Shandong Peninsula Domain... 75 The Ancient Tribes Described by the Fables and Sophistry Books like Zhuang Zi, Lie Zi & Lv-shi Chun-qiu... 76 The Non-equivalency of Fu-xi and Tai-hao... 81 The Embodiment of Fu-xi...82 Post-Han Dynasty Theologicalization and Mystification...85 Chapter VII: Legends About the Three Sovereigns & Five Thearchs...88 The Ancient Chinese Attempt at Explaining the Antiquity... 91 The Legends about the Ancient Thearchs...95 The Dynasties, Epochs, Eons and Aeons...96 The Creation Theories...98 Chapter VIII: The Jiang-Surnamed Sino-Tibetan People... 102 The San-miao people, the Sinitic People and the proto-tibetans... 104 Legends of the Yellow Thearch vs the Fiery Thearch... 106 The Yellow Thearch s Wars with Yan-di, Chi-you, & the Xun-yu barbarians, Respectively...111 The Books Shi Ben and Li-ji,and the Orthodox Yellow Thearch s Lineage...114 Interpretation of the Ancient Surnames from the Prism of the Yellow Thearch s Family... 121 Xing (Surname), Shi (clan name) & the Moiety Marriage... 123 Precession of the Equinoxes, & the Ancient Historians and Astronomers Efforts at Ascertaining the Reign Years of Lord Yao... 125 Lord Yao... 133 Lord Shun... 137 Mundane Sinitic China Ancestor Sacrifice Framework... 143 Lord Yu... 145 Lack of Dates in the Ancient Lords Chronicling and the Forgery Contemporary Version [Jin Ben] of The Bamboo Annals... 147 Fallacies of the Tribal Leadership Succession: Yao-Sun-Yu... 151 Chapter IX: A Discourse on The Bamboo Annals... 154 Section Three: The Xia Dynasty Chapter X: The Xia Dynasty - Start of the Three Dynasties... 165 The Xia Land - the Central Statelet ( Zhong-guo )... 168 The Xia Dynasty Founder-kings... 172 The Xia Dynasty s Domain... 177 Chapter XI: The Xia Dynasty s Chronological History... 179 Debunking Excessive Forgeries on Xia King Qi3 in The Bamboo Annals with Poem Asking Heaven... 181 Usurpation of the Xia Throne by You-qiong-shi and Han-zhuo... 183 Legendary Figures Xi-he2, & the Pierced Authenticity of Yin4 Zheng of Shang-shu... 187
The Xia Dynasty s Summary Years Having Source in Han Dynasty s Forgery Books...202 Jie - the Last Xia King...205 Chapter XII: The Xia Dynasty s Demise... 215 Alternative Stories in Regards to Xia King Jie s Final Demise Debunking Sophistry Books & Auctioned Qinghua University Bamboo Slips... 218 Section Four: The Shang Dynasty Chapter XIII: The Shang Civilization...223 The Origin of the Shang People...223 Shang Ancestor Kings & China s Homeric Iliad...226 Shang Dynasty Founder-king Shang-tang...229 The Year of the Cheng-Tang Revolution & the Yin-li (Shang Dynasty) Calendar...236 The Launch of the Shang Dynasty... 238 Chapter XIV: The Shang Dynasty Chronological History...242 Shang King Tai-jia, Minister & Shang-shu Article Yi-de (One Heart/Mind)...242 Shang Kings Temple Titles Debunking The Bamboo Annals As Ghostwriting Masterpiece... 245 The Shang Erligang (two league hill) Culture...246 Chapter XV: The Shang Dynasty s Demise... 257 Disputes Related to the Shang Dynasty s Summary Years... 262 The Zhou People s Succeeding the Mandate Of Heaven... 263 Section Five: The Zhou Dynasty Chapter XVI: The Zhou People s Origin... 271 The Double Agricultural Guardians Identities in Prehistoric China... 274 The Zhou People s Claim as People from the West... 277 The Zhou People s Developments during the Xia-Shang Dynasties...280 The Shang & Zhou Relations...284 Chapter XVII: The Zhou Conquest of the Shang Dynaty...288 Zhou King Wenwang Receiving the At-will Campaign Mandate from the Shang King... 295 A Comprehensive Review of Follies Surrounding the Year for the Zhou Conquest of Shang...302 The Astrological and Astronomical Discourse on the Zhou King Wuwang s Campaign against the Shang Dynasty... 322 Chapter XVIII: The Zhou Dynasty s Feudal System... 327 Rankings Of the Zhou Lords & Principalities... 330 The Jinn Principality in the Great Xia Land... 337 The Zigzag Wars With the Rong & Di Barbarians... 347
Chapter XIX: The Western Zhou Dynasty s Chronological History... 361 Zhou King Wuwang... 362 Zhou King Chengwang...364 Zhou King Kangwang... 375 Zhou King Zhaowang... 378 Zhou King Muwang... 383 Chapter XX: Debunking Forgeries Related to Zhou King Muwang the Icon of Longevity...388 Jiu-jiang (nine rivers), San-jiang (three rivers), Shan Hai Jing (Legends of Mountains & Seas), & Yu Gong (Lord Yu s Tributes)... 397 The Lx Xing Chapter and the Authenticity of [Shang-]Shu]...402 Chapter XXI: Fiction - Zhou King Muwang s Travelogue... 410 Chapter XXII: The Western Zhou Chronological History Continued... 439 Zhou King Gongwang... 439 Zhou King Yi[4]wang...440 Zhou King Xiaowang...442 Zhou King Yi[2]wang...443 Zhou King Liwang...445 Interregnum (841-828 B.C. per Shi-ji; 840-827 B.C. per Zhang Wenyu/Lai2 Ding)..449 Zhou King Xuanwang (Ji Jing, reign 827-782 B.C. per Shi-ji; 826-782 B.C. per Zhang Wenyu/Lai2 Ding)... 452 Zhou King Youwang (Ji Gongnie, reign 781-771 B.C.)...465 Chapter XXIII: The Eastern Zhou Dynasty & its Chronological History... 474 Zhou King Xiewang & Debunking Myths in the Bamboo Slips Xi-Nian in Regards to That Happened During the Transition to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty from the Western Zhou Dynasty... 475 The Spring & Autumn Time Period of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty... 479 Zhou King Pingwang (Ji Yijiu, reign 770-720 B.C.)... 481 Lu Lord Yin gong (r. 722-712 B.C.)...486 Zhou King Huanwang (Ji Lin, reign 719-697 B.C.)...489 Lu Lord Huan gong (r. 711-694 B.C.)...496 Zhou King Zhuangwang (Ji Tuo, reign 696-682 B.C.)...504 Lu Lord Zhuanggong (693-662 B.C.)...506 Zhou King Xiwang (Liwang) (Ji Huqi, reign 681-677 B.C.)... 510 Zhou King Huiwang (Ji Lang, reign 676-652 B.C.)... 514 Lu lord Min gong (r. 661-660 B.C.)... 523 Lu Lord Xigong (r. B.C. 659-627)... 525 Zhou King Xiangwang (Ji Zheng, reign 651-619 B.C.)... 533 The Yarrow & Turtle Divination Mechanism of the Shang, Zhou & Chu People...548 Jinn Prince Chong er Returning to the Jinn State after a Twenty-Year Homeric Odyssey... 553 Lu Lord Wen gong (r. 626-609 B.C)...568 Zhou King Qing[1]wang (Ji Renchen, reign 618-613 B.C.)... 575
Chronology Zhou King Kuangwang (Ji Ban, reign 612-607 B.C.)... 578 Lu Lord Xuan gong (r. 608-591 B.C.)... 582 Epilogue... 585 Chronology of the Three Dynasties (Xia, Shang and Zhou)... 587 A Timeline of Chinese Dynasties with Corroborated Reign Years & Eras... 591 References on the Calendars & the Calendar Terms: Reference on the Calendar Terms... 594 The Conversion Table for the Qin Empire s Zhuanxu-li Calendar... 596 The Conversion Table for the Virtual Yin-li (Shang Dynasty) Calendar... 598 Bibliographical References: References on the Twenty-four Histories... 616 References on the Thirteen Classics... 619 References on the Founding-masters, Masters and Disciples of the Hundreds of Schools of Thoughts... 628 References on Qu Yuan s Poem Asking Heaven... 641 References on the Written Literature from China s Imperial Past...643 Additional Bibliography... 653