The Announcement of Luo
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Students of literature and history studying the Book of Documents and early Western Zhou history
- Readers interested in ancient capital site selection and divination systems
- Upper-secondary students needing short classical texts to train punctuation and annotation
- General readers who enjoy observing early political practice through classic texts
Not a good fit for
- Casual readers seeking light stories or vernacular retellings
- Beginners with no classical Chinese foundation unwilling to use annotations and translations
- Readers needing a systematic Western Zhou history textbook rather than a single original text
Reading tips
- First read through with annotations, listing the relationships among key terms and figures: Duke of Shao, Duke of Zhou, Chengzhou, divination.
- Read the original aloud a second time, attending to the tone of the announcement style, then check sentence division against the translation.
- Look up background on the building of Chengzhou in the early Western Zhou to place the short text in its historical context.
About the publisher
Bashu Publishing House is a publisher centered on collating and publishing classical Chinese cultural texts, with its main publishing areas covering classical literature, Eastern philosophy, ancient poetry, and educational classics. Its library currently holds 1,075 titles, including representative works such as Dream of the Red Chamber, the Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Gathering, Renjian Cihua, and Out to the Frontier, involving authors such as Cao Xueqin, Wang Xizhi, Wang Guowei, Wang Changling, Liu Xie, and Yan Yu. These reflect the publisher's focus on literary classics, poetry criticism, and philosophical readings. Its publishing character lies in working around ancient texts and canonical works, with attention to textual collation and presentation. Public information on its more detailed publishing background and series plans is limited; this introduction is based only on the library's book information.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 正文一
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- 正文三
- 正文四
- 正文五
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About the author
Anonymous is not a real personal name but a general Chinese designation for authors whose names are unknown, lost, or unsigned. Neither nationality nor dates of birth and death can be verified, and available public information is limited, so the works attributed to this name are the only basis for description. The collection holds 2,078 works under Anonymous, spanning medicine, classics, historical readings, ancient poetry, classical literature, and philosophy. Representative works include The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon: Lingshu, Mencius, The Book of Documents, Nineteen Old Poems, Complete Song Ci, and The Peacock Flies Southeast. Most of these works took shape through long transmission and editing, emerging either from collective folk creation or from authors whose names were lost over time. In ancient China, the Book of Songs, the Great Learning, and many popular storybooks and plays were signed Anonymous because their authors could not be traced. Anonymous works cross the classics, histories, philosophical writings, medical texts, and poetry; their subjects are broad, and their styles vary from archaic simplicity to clear naturalness, making them important and influential sources for understanding ancient Chinese thought, medicine, and literature.
