Chapter 36: The First Historical King of China

Question 1

I ching

Answer 1

This is an ancient philosophical text, it describes Wu Ting, as going on a three-year campaign against rebellious tribes to the northwest. It means Book of Changes.

Question 2

Ideogram

Answer 2

It is a Chinese pictorial signs.

Question 3

Composite Ideogram

Answer 3

It is made of putting pictorial signs together. They represented abstractions and ideas.

Question 4

Fu Yueh

Answer 4

He is a sage, that Wu Ting picked to be his official who could serve as his right hand.

Question 5

Shih ching

Answer 5

This is an ancient philosophical text, it describes Wu Ting, and credits him with rule over an improbably enormous land. It means Book of Songs.

Question 6

Shu ching

Answer 6

A book about ancient history, written hundreds of years after Wu Ting, but before the time of Sima Qian, who used it as one of his sources.

Question 7

Wu Ting

Answer 7

He is the twenty-second Shang king, he probably ruled around 1200 B.C. He spent his developmental year among farmers and the poor. His first three years of rule, he did not speak at all.