Abstract
This paper tries to evaluate the merits and demerits of previous calendar tables calculated by various scholars for the first century of the Han dynasty. By synthesizing previous studies I hope to reconstruct a calendar table closer to that actually used by the Han people. I also discuss how the unpublished dating data on the inscribed wooden/bamboo slips can be adopted to refine the calendar table. Using this reconstructed table to check the dating data in Shiji and Hanshu, I discovered 162 dating errors, many unknown to previous scholars. I further correct and discuss most of these errors.
Keywords
Shiji, Hanshu, Calendar
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