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and a group of affiliated scholars who "petitioned the emperor to have the Confucian classics carved in stone in order to prevent their being altered to support particular points of view."
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The stelae were mostly destroyed in the fighting following the collapse of the Han dynasty in 207, and only a few fragments have survived.
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commentary, were arranged on the western side of a roughly "U" form. The 15 stela with the
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in the Chinese stone rubbings database at East Asian Center for Informatics in Humanities,
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Fire over Luoyang: A History of the Later Han Dynasty 23-220 AD
189:"The Xiping Stone Classics from the National Library of China" 210:(2nd ed.). Harvard Univ Asia Center. pp. 439, 475. 74:, and covered the seven classics recognized at the time: the 47:
classics. Named for the Xiping reign era (AD 172–178) of
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Stone carved books of the Confucian classics (175-183)
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were on the eastern side. Scholars could then take
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Chinese
Han dynasty
Confucian
Emperor Ling of Han
stelae
Imperial Academy
Luoyang
Cai Yong
stelae
Book of Changes
Book of Documents
Book of Songs
Book of Rites
Spring and Autumn Annals
Classic of Filial Piety
Analects
Ma Midi
Lu Zhi
cinnabar
Gongyang
rubbings
Kaicheng Stone Classics
"The Xiping Stone Classics from the National Library of China"
World Digital Library
ISBN
978-0-674-00249-4
"Remains of the Old Luoyang"
CCTV-9
Xiping Stone Classics (熹平石经)

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