Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu欽定協紀辨方書
The Qing court’s manual of date selection, made to clean up the almanacs of its day.
- Era
- Qing dynasty
- Volumes
- 36
- Author
- Yunlu and others, by imperial order
What it is
Ordered in the fourth year of Qianlong and prefaced in the twelfth month of the sixth, which fell in early 1742. It runs from first principles through rules, tables and corrections. The Siku catalogue says it corrected the old almanac manual point by point.
On this site
Our Daily Almanac follows vols. 4 to 11, the Kua stars vol. 2 and the pentads vol. 12.
Sources Siku Quanshu Zongmu Tiyao.
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Chinese text, chapter by chapter, from Wikisource.
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