The Yili, the Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial, is a primary Chinese ritual text traditionally placed in the Warring States and early Han periods; the atlas records no author, no publisher and no publication year because both its exact date and its compiler are genuinely unresolved among scholars rather than simply unrecorded. Its strength is that it is the primary source itself for the ritual procedures it describes, not a later description of them. Its limit is the ordinary one for any transmitted classical Chinese ritual text: how much of it reflects its claimed period and how much reflects later editorial hands is an open scholarly question.
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The Yili, the Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial, a primary Chinese ritual text traditionally placed in the Warring States and early Han periods, the middle tier reflecting that it is the primary source itself for the ritual procedures it describes, though both its exact date and its compiler are genuinely unresolved among scholars. Its limit is the ordinary one for any transmitted classical Chinese ritual text: how much reflects its claimed period and how much reflects later editorial hands is an open scholarly question. NotesTraditionally dated to the Warring States and early Han periods; exact date and authorship are unresolved and not asserted here.
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AuthorCompiler unknown, classical Chinese ritual canon
Source Typeprimary-text
Claims Backed By This Source (9 claims)
This source backs 9 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
- Rituals, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
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