HISTORY 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Utopia, Leap Year, Sage Gateshead
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History 250 lecture 7 origin stories and legends. Early chinese history only recorded history an oral history, no archaeological records. 2698 bce the yellow emperor (huang-ti: myth (didn"t actually exist) Chinese calendar was a mix of legendary stories and scientific fact: 1400 bce figured out there are 365 days in a year, months based on cycles of the moon. 29 or 30 days for moon to go through cycle: 15 months in a year with a leap year, figured out lunar and solar eclipses. 3 great rulers who discovered something new. In the northern plain sui-jen saw the sky go dark and lighting struck an animal which cooked and smelled good. Fui-hsi noticed that he was naked and used leaves and animal furs for clothes: a turtle gave him commandments (similar to 10 commandments, saw a bird make footprints and decided to paint a similar design.
