史記：補：八書

Shiji, supplement: the Eight Treatises

Shiji 史记 · 256 BC · 周赧王五十九年

Introduction

The Eight Treatises: the sentence of the Treatise on the Feng and Shan Sacrifices on the passing of the Nine Tripods to Qin.

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 史记（五：列传）Shiji V: Biographies
§6 无骨论点补充（以及辨析）一Ivar the Boneless' commentary and analysis I
§7 无骨论点补充（以及辨析）二Ivar the Boneless' commentary and analysis II
§8 其他古籍（史類）Other ancient works (histories)
§9 史記：補：八書Shiji, supplement: the Eight Treatises

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Annotations

[§9] 史記：補：八書

[§9] Shiji, supplement: the Eight Treatises

封禅书：其後百二十岁而秦灭周，周之九鼎入于秦。或曰宋太丘社亡，而鼎没于泗水彭城下。

Treatise on the Feng and Shan Sacrifices: One hundred and twenty years after this¹, Qin extinguished Zhou, and the Nine Tripods of Zhou passed into Qin. Some say that when the altar of the soil at Taiqiu in Song was lost, the tripods sank in Si River below Pengcheng.

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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.

altar of the soil / 社

n. the altar of the god of the soil of a state or settlement.

Places

Qin 秦

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

Zhou 周

the Zhou royal domain around Luoyang.

Taiqiu 太丘

a Song town; modern Yongcheng, Henan.

Song 宋

the state of Song, in modern eastern Henan.

Si River 泗水

a river flowing south past Pengcheng into the Huai.

Pengcheng 彭城

modern Xuzhou, Jiangsu.

Notes

¹ One hundred and twenty years after this

The chapter is excerpted: "this" is the event of the Treatise's preceding sentence.