- 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...
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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...
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honorific alternate with shen "spirit; god; deity" Sanchong,
which the
Lunheng (see below) used to mean "intestinal parasites", is
normally translated...
- needle's
attraction appears in a work
composed between 20 and 100 AD, the
Lunheng (Balanced Inquiries): "A
lodestone attracts a needle." In the 2nd century...
- dynasty. The
earliest such
record is
found in Wang Chong's first-century
Lunheng.
There are
several legends related to the Tai Sui,[citation needed] usually...
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Chong (27–100 AD)
accurately described the
water cycle of
Earth in his
Lunheng but was
dismissed by his contemporaries. Up to the time of the Renaissance...
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frivolity and licence." The
skeptical philosopher Wang Chong's c. 80 CE
Lunheng (Balanced Discourses) has a p****age
contrasting genuine gemstones found...
- with fire [kindled from]
cudrania branches (5.5) Wang Chong's (c. 80 CE)
Lunheng mentions the
fangzhu 方諸 in two
chapters (46, 47), and the
yangsui in five...
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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...
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Shanhaijing (山海經;
classic of
Mountains and Seas) in Wang
Chong (d., c. 97 AD)'s
Lunheng (論衡, "Discourses in the Balance"),
although the p****age is not
found in...
