Wang Anshi's commentaries on the Odes, Documents and Rites of Zhou issued to school officials
The Song shi basic annals record that on the jiyou day of the sixth lunar month of Xining 8 (AD 1075) Wang Anshi's (王安石) Meanings of the Odes, the Documents and the Rites of Zhou (《詩》《書》《周禮義》) were issued to the school officials.
What this does and does not establish
The Song shi is a Yuan-compiled (1343-45) official history drawing on Song court records; the English is an AI working translation. The annals' wording can be read as one set of commentaries on three classics; the exact titles are a working interpretation.
- Read through an AI working translation.
- Region
- East Asia
- Theme
- Culture and knowledge
- Kind of record
- Placed in a year. A source places this in one year. It is listed under that year; no day precision is invented.
How it is dated
- Date reference
- 熙寧 8 (熙寧八年 as numbered by the annals), lunar month 6
- How we use it
- Year assigned from the lunar month under which the annals enter the item; the sexagenary day was not converted to a Julian day.
The date reference is this project’s reading of the source’s date. It may give an era name, a reign or a calendar in a normalised form rather than in the source’s own words; the dating notes say what the source prints.
Dating notes from the research record
Lunar month 6 of 熙寧 8 = Julian 1075-07-16 to 1075-08-14, per Academia Sinica 兩千年中西曆轉換 year table(s) 熙寧8.html (sha256 6273d22a7e73…); the whole month lies in AD 1075.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Song shi (History of Song), basic annals
Toghto (脫脫) et al., Yuan court historiographers
The credit or link shown here was corrected after an audit of the retained source.
Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
己酉，頒王安石《[[诗经|詩]]》、《[[尚书|書]]》、《[[周礼|周禮義]]》於學官。AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
On jiyou, Wang Anshi's [commentaries on the] meaning of the Odes, the Documents and the Rites of Zhou were issued to the school officials.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Source: Song shi, juan 15, zh.wikisource transcription (revision 2285105). English renderings are AI working translations, not published translations.
Exact source version
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Source checked 2026-11-04. An independent AI evidence review supports this bounded, attributed wording. That review does not guarantee historical truth. How records are checked
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