Sacred landscapes of Imperial China : astronomy, Feng Shui, and the Mandate of Heaven / Giulio Magli.

This book analyses the magnificent imperial necropolises of ancient China from the perspective of Archaeoastronomy, a science which takes into account the landscape in which ancient monuments are placed, focusing especially but not exclusively on the celestial aspects. The power of the Chinese emper...

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Main Author: Magli, Giulio, 1964- (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2020.
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505 0 |a Intro -- Introduction -- Contents -- 1 Heavens and Earth in Ancient China -- 1.1 Religion and Natural Philosophy -- 1.2 Divination, Astrology and Astronomy -- 1.3 From Natural to Sacred Landscapes -- 2 In Between Wind and Water -- 2.1 Form Feng Shui -- 2.2 Compass Feng Shui -- 2.3 The Establishment of Feng Shui -- 3 A Mound and A Terracotta Army -- 3.1 The First Emperor and the Mandate of Heaven -- 3.2 The Terracotta "Warriors" -- 3.3 The First Pyramid of China -- 5 The Golden Age -- 5.1 From Pyramids to Mountains -- 5.2 Buried in the Homeland -- 5.3 From Mountains to Pagodas 
505 8 |a 6 A New Splendor -- 6.1 The Advent of the Ming -- 6.2 Three Stones for a King -- 6.3 The Cosmic Capital -- 7 A Beautiful Valley -- 7.1 From Nanjing to Shisanling -- 7.2 Thirteen Emperors, Thirteen Tombs -- 7.3 A Palace for Eternity -- 8 The Last Dynasty -- 8.1 A New Geography for China -- 8.2 From Shisanling to Fengtaling -- 8.3 One Dynasty, Two Necropolises -- Conclusions: A View from Purple Mountain -- Appendix Probing Feng Shui Landscapes -- The Azimuth-Altitude Reference System -- The Horizon Formula -- The Use of Virtual Globe Software -- Palaeomagnetic Models 
505 8 |a Chronology of Imperial China -- Tables -- References 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
520 |a This book analyses the magnificent imperial necropolises of ancient China from the perspective of Archaeoastronomy, a science which takes into account the landscape in which ancient monuments are placed, focusing especially but not exclusively on the celestial aspects. The power of the Chinese emperors was based on the so-called Mandate of Heaven: the rulers were believed to act as intermediaries between the sky gods and the Earth, and consequently, the architecture of their tombs, starting from the world-famous mausoleum of the first emperor, was closely linked to the celestial cycles and to the cosmos. This relationship, however, also had to take into account various other factors and doctrines, first the Zhao-Mu doctrine in the Han period and later the various forms of Feng Shui. As a result, over the centuries, diverse sacred landscapes were constructed. Among the sites analysed in the book are the "pyramids" of Xian from the Han dynasty, the mountain tombs of the Tang dynasty, and the Ming and Qing imperial tombs. The book explains how considerations such as astronomical orientation and topographical orientation according to the principles of Feng Shui played a fundamental role at these sites 
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