- The
Lunheng, also
known by
numerous English translations, is a wide-ranging
Chinese classic text by Wang
Chong (27 – c. 100).
First published in 80, it...
- this name.")
maintained a "possible
tributary relationship" with Yan. The
Lunheng (論衡; 'Discourses
Weighed in the Balance') is a
compendium of
essays written...
- the
Lunheng dates it from "the 15th year" (671 BCE)
instead of "the
tenth year" (676) of the
reign of Duke Huan of Qi. More significantly, the
Lunheng omits...
-
wells give
birth to
Fenyang (墳羊),
people find it strange. Wang Chong's
Lunheng (80 CE)
quotes the Liji (c. 2nd–1st
century BCE),
though not
found in the...
-
spare the innocent. The
account appears in Wang Chong,
Lunheng (80 AD). In the same work (
Lunheng), the
legend is
prefaced the
remark that
public offices...
-
honorific alternate with shen "spirit; god; deity" Sanchong,
which the
Lunheng (see below) used to mean "intestinal parasites", is
normally translated...
-
advancing age
could ****ume
human form is
presented in
works such as the
Lunheng by Wang
Chong (27–91). As
these traditions developed, the fox's capacity...
-
first mentioned in
China by the
philosopher Wang
Chong in his 1st-century
Lunheng. The
armillary sphere, a three-dimensional
representation of the movements...
-
shijie ("release from/of the corpse") is
first recorded in the c. 80 CE
Lunheng below, but its near
synonym xingjie (形解, "release from the form") occurs...
-
earliest mention of the
attraction of a
needle is in a 1st-century work
Lunheng (Balanced Inquiries): "A
lodestone attracts a needle." The 11th-century...
