史记（一：本纪）

Shiji I: Basic Annals

Shiji 史记 · 255 BC · 秦昭襄王五十二年

Introduction

The Basic Annals for 255 BC: the entry of the Basic Annals of Qin under the fifty-second year of King Zhaoxiang, which records the end of Zhou a year later than the Basic Annals of Zhou.

Text and Translation

§1 史记（一：本纪）Shiji I: Basic Annals
§2 史记（二：表）Shiji II: Tables
§3 史记（三：世家）Shiji III: Hereditary Houses
§4 史记（四：列传）Shiji IV: Biographies
§5 无骨论点补充（以及辨析）一Ivar the Boneless' commentary and analysis I
§6 无骨论点补充（以及辨析）二Ivar the Boneless' commentary and analysis II

Text: Chinese source

Text: English Translation

Annotations

[§1] 史记（一：本纪）

[§1] Shiji I: Basic Annals

秦本纪：五十二年，周民东亡，其器九鼎入秦。周初亡。

Basic Annals of Qin: In the fifty-second year¹, the people of Zhou fled east, and their vessels, the Nine Tripods, passed into Qin. Zhou now first perished².

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Terms

the Nine Tripods / 九鼎

n. the nine bronze tripod cauldrons held to have been cast by Yu and passed from dynasty to dynasty as the emblem of legitimate rule; their removal to Qin in 256 BC marks the end of Zhou.

Places

Zhou 周

the Zhou royal domain around Luoyang.

Qin 秦

the state of Qin, with its capital at Xianyang, Shaanxi.

Notes

¹ fifty-second year

The fifty-second year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, 255 BC. The Basic Annals of Zhou place the flight of the people of Zhou and the taking of the Nine Tripods under the preceding year, the fifty-ninth of King Nan.

² Zhou now first perished

周初亡: the Western Zhou domain was extinguished; the Eastern Zhou domain remained.