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The Missing Books of Yi?

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what about them, Yly?
There are fragments of a text in circulation that some people are asserting are parts of the Guicang.
It doesn't read at all like the Zhouyi, more like the Yiin with a big splash of Shang oracle bones.
You have hold of this?
 

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I think it is just another version of 'Freemasonry' in the Middle Kingdom. In fact I will not be surprised if the renowned authors of the Yi in the ancient times keep some of these fragment.
 

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I happens to pick up some commentaries about why the Middle Kingdom have to go through "book burnings" and the recent cultural revolution (but i forget when). It suggests that one of the major reason is to eliminate some restricted materials slipped through to normal layman. Unfortunately my grand grand grand ... father is not one of them.

If the Yi is about "connectedness", the reason why the British Museum is found can provide some clues to the mystery of these Missing Books?
 

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A practice by the Missing book:

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There is a 'type' of man at ancient times.
The Chinese coins them as 真人 [Zhen Ren] -the Real Man).

One of them:
太乙真人
 

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Book Burning & Confucian Burying
<font size="-2">Shihuangdi was angered by two Confucians (i.e., Lu Sheng & Hou Sheng, more semi-Daoist and semi-alchemist) who had cheated him in finding panacea. Li Si (Li Szu), leftside prime minister, after winning favor over Chunyu Yue on the matter of commandary-county system, would propose book burning. In 213 BC, on Li Si's urging, Shihuangdi outlawed all other schools of thought ("Hundred Schools") except for Legalism, and he ordered book burning. 346 Confucians local to Qin capital were buried alive at one time. When Shihuangdi's elder son, Prince Fu-Su (aka Fu Su), encountered the rows of Confucians who were on the way to the burial ground, he went straight to Shihuangdi pleading for amnesty on behalf of the Confucians. Shihuangdi rebutted Fu-Su and further sent his elder son to Shangjun (today's Suide and ancient Suizhou) Commandary on the northern border to be with General Meng Tian. Shihuangdi then played a trick to have various prefectures send over about 700 more Confucians and scholars. All 700 Confucians were stoned to death in a valley, a place later names 'valley of confucian killing'. Mao Tse-tung was reported to have commented on Shihuangdi's book burning and Confucian killing in 1958: "What's so unusual about Emperor Shihuangdi of Qin Dynasty? He had buried alive 460 scholars only, but we have routed millions of rightists..."

Sima Qian signed when he wrote about 'book burning'. Valuable records were lost forever. Why? Sima Qian said that Qin Shihuangdi ordered all histories and chronicles of Zhou Kingdom and various principalities be burnt, that only Qin chronicles were left intact, and that the worst thing about Qin's chronicle was that Qin, unlike Zhou and other vassals, did not write the dates in their chronicle. Sima Qian also expressed relief that ancient classics, like Si Jing (classics of poems) etc, had survived because they were hidden by civilians outside of the court. But the histories and chronicles, only kept in Zhou court or the courts of the vassals, were all destroyed.</font>
 

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http://www.wwnorton.com/nawol/s3_overview.htm

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<font size="-2">The end of ancient China is often linked with the rise of the draconian ruler Ch'in Shih-huang. While he is known for making important advances such as unifying the currency and the script, he is equally known for burning books that he deemed objectionable. The Legalists, who believed that subjects of the state should adhere completely to the laws and policies, were excepted from Ch'in's book burning. Within twenty years, the Han empire came to power and retained it for over 400 years. Although the Westernized name China alludes to the Ch'in, the Chinese people in actuality refer to themselves as the "people of Han."</font>
 

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A drastic social engineering that is taking place after the unification of the Middle Kingdom - the unifying of the script is to facilitate the introduction of the natural language.


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