User:Shira the Mogul

None at the moment!

Prevalent Shang diviners...

• Huang (diviner) - A diviner who served Di Xin, known for having an extremely mature writing style.
• He (diviner) - A diviner who headed a significant group
• Bin (diviner) - A diviner who worked with Nan and Zheng.
• Zhu (diviner) - A diviner whose bones were used as exemplars for budding scribes.
• Yong (diviner) - A diviner known for their more mature style that influenced Huang, also served Di Yi and Di Xin in particular.

There's more of them, but these are the most important!

Others...

• Shu Chu of Huo 霍叔處 - Last of the Three Guards who rebelled against the Duke of Zhou
• Kunwu 昆吾 - A clan that ferociously resisted Tang's advance during the Battle of Mingtiao.
• Lu Ruoteng 盧若騰 - Han Chinese settler of Taiwan during the Kingdom of Dongning. He preserved numerous works from the period, which were transmitted by his 8th generation descendant and are now preserved by RoC authorities. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E6%96%87%E9%96%8B%E6%9B%B8%E9%99%A2%E7%9A%84%E5%AD%94%E5%AD%90%E3%80%81%E6%9C%B1%E5%AD%90%E3%80%81%E6%B2%88%E5%85%89%E6%96%87%E3%80%81%E5%BE%90%E5%AD%9A%E9%81%A0%E3%80%81%E7%9B%A7%E8%8B%A5%E9%A8%B0%E3%80%81%E7%8E%8B%E5%BF%A0%E5%AD%9D%E3%80%81%E6%B2%88%E4%BD%BA%E6%9C%9F%E3%80%81%E8%BE%9C%E6%9C%9D%E8%96%A6%E3%80%81%E9%83%AD%E8%B2%9E%E4%B8%80%E3%80%81%E8%97%8D%E9%BC%8E%E5%85%83%E7%A5%9E%E4%BD%8D.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E7%9B%A7%E8%8B%A5%E9%A8%B0%E6%95%85%E5%AE%85.jpg

• San Yisheng - Minister for kings Wen and Wu https://ctext.org/pre-qin-and-han?searchu=%E6%95%A3%E5%AE%9C%E7%94%9F
• Jie of Xia - The narrative is a bit skewed but he was also kinda invented so what can ya do? The prose just rubs me the wrong way...

• Respect all people, including those who are ancient. It does not matter if a person died in the Iron Age or recently, they should be respected and treated as real thinkers. It is easy for us to imagine them as barbarians, but anthropology shows they were not!
• A language should be able to explain itself. I like to ensure that wikis of closeness to the language an individual would have spoken has an article of similar to equal quality to the original. For example, an article on Shang Jia should exist on the Literary Chinese Wikipedia. No ifs, no buts.
• Names of individuals should be detailed so to ensure respect. Every Chinese name infobox should therefore include the following at minimum:
  • Mandarin w/ Pinyin, Bopomofo, and Wades Giles;
  • Cantonese, ideally Jyutping
  • Middle and Old Chinese
    • Include Shanghainese at a stretch!
• Wikisource should be utilised for pubdom references where possible, so to ensure the source is fully accountable to the public.

• Anything regarding Literary Chinese, especially from a pan-Asian perspective.
• Maoist events, e.g. Hundred Flowers Campaign and the resultant Anti-Rightist Campaign.
• Confucian philosophy, particularly minor individuals like King Hui of Wei, Zilu, and Zi Gao.
• The Mingjia, particularly the writings of Gongsun Long and his debate with Kong Chuan, which shows some interesting early linguistics. I also like Yi Yin a lot.
• The Shang dynasty, with emphasis on Predynastic Shang. I like individuals such as Di Xin, Tang of Shang, Yi Yin, Fu Zi, Wang Hai, and Zheng!
  • I have made a ton of pages on people from the Shang dynasty, so come say hello if you want help with anything!
• Zhiguai writings such as the Classic of Mountains and Seas and Zi Bu Yu. Chinese mythology in a broad sense is interesting to me and I'll probably write about stuff from the Classic of Mountains and Seas at some point.
• Abstract writing, such as Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den, Finnegans Wake, and and A Book from the Sky. I also write One syllable articles in Literary Chinese.
• Linguistic works of Yuen Ren Chao (e.g. General Chinese, Old National Pronunciation) and Tarleton Perry Crawford. I have had a passing interest in Noam Chomsky but it's never been a worse time to have one.
  • One of my foremost interests in linguistics is establishing a global, diachronic perspective on the matter.
• Education-related topics, especially from the perspective of history, e.g. Shang dynasty copying of bones and Maimonides' rule.
• Powys

• Wang Hai of Shang - A king of Predynastic Shang who was mentioned in posthumous texts and received a great many sacrifices from his descendents.
• Wang Gen of Shang - Wang Hai's successor who frequently gets misnamed due to posthumous accounts composing it wrong. Graagh!
• Cao Yu of Shang - A king who probably didn't even exist tbh
• Ming of Shang - The father of an ancestral deity who is in an identity crisis. Also he drowned in a river.
• Zheng (diviner) - This guy cooked so many Mauremys sinensis plastrons. Over 800! Also I had one of those as a pet once. Captive bred, needless to say! Her name was Kamoebas. She's repopulating her species in a sanctuary now.
• Bao Yi of Shang - A historical ruler of Predynastic Shang who began the Three Baos that would be worshipped by the Shang people.
• Bao Bing of Shang - Bao, but two.
• Bao Ding of Shang - Bao, but three. I want to say more but there isn't much info on this bunch other than the weirdness with their names.
• Shi Ren of Shang - Predynastic ruler who formed a duo with Shi Gui.
• Shi Gui of Shang - The illustrious father of Tang of Shang whose name was so important, that no one else was allowed to use 癸 as their Heavenly Stem again!
• Kong Chuan - A descendent of Confucius who debated Gongsun Long.
• Yin Wen - A logician of the School of Names who laid the groundwork for Gongsun Long's philosophy.
• Five Character Mirror - A Ming dynasty primer based on the 17 Histories of the time.
• Xuanniao - A strange bird mentioned in myriad classical texts. It's either a swallow or something special, we don't know. Also it took several weeks to write.
• Nan (diviner) - Most prominent Shang diviner and one of the most interesting for sure!
• Peng (diviner) - Student-turned-diviner!
• Zhong Hui (Shang dynasty) - Yi Yin's contemporary.

These are pages I've spent significant time editing, usually with really large edits that fundamentally rewrite the pages.

• Hundred Flowers Campaign - Previously really bare, added lots of details on various aspects of the campaign.
• Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den - Not just a meme! It's a tour de force in linguistics!
• One-syllable article - A very obscure literary genre with ample possibilities!
• Loushan Pass - One of Mao Zedong's most famous poems.
• A Book from the Sky - Did you know this has some characters that were actually identified as real?
• Tarleton Perry Crawford - Previously having problems with notability, now a real article about forerunning sinolinguist. If only he wasn't insane.
• Maimonides' rule - This wasn't actually made by Rambam!
• King Hui of Wei - From a page that was really bare and focused on his reign to a more complicated depiction of King Hui's character through his philosophical discussions.
• Di Xin - New name, modern narrative. Very complex ruler.
• Xiang Tu - From a...strangely written page, to a progenitor of chariot technology!
• Predynastic Shang - This needed a lot of work after making tons of pages on its rulers!
• Tang of Shang - First ruler of the Shang dynasty.
• Yi Yin - Minister for Tang of Shang and widely analysed by Chinese philosophers.
• Lin Xin - Guy who did nothing and has an identity crisis
• King Wu of Zhou - Before I started editing this legit had a shitty sample signature on it lmao
• King Xuan of Zhou - Very important king mentioned in bronzeware who was left behind for 14 years!
• Battle of Mingtiao - Previously very incomplete...
• Battle of Muye - Updated with archaeology and a more modern narrative on Di Xin.