Dunhuang Astronomical and Calendar Texts: Collation and Annotation

Author: Deng Wenkuan
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Publish Date: 1996-05-01
Features: The almanac was one of the essential items in the lives of ancient Chinese people, and almanac culture is an important branch of traditional Chinese culture, involving many aspects such as astronomy, calendar calculation, divination, festivals, and folk customs, with extremely rich content. However, all these belong to the part of astronomy and calendar. This book, The Collected and Corrected Astronomical and Calendar Documents from Dunhuang, provides a detailed account of the content related to astronomy and calendar in Dunhuang culture, which is very helpful for us to understand the development of astronomy and calendar along the Silk Road.