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[edit] Shang Dynasty
The finds at Anyang are well known, and there is a source listed, Keightley's Sources of Shang History which talks about the finds and inscriptions found on the oracle bones there. The nine rulers, principly Wuding to DiXin are found in the inscriptions by various ritualised names for the deceased rulers. In the inscriptions, the Shang warred with numerous opponents, took slaves for sacrifice and other mundane things. Shang inscriptions also mention the Zhou, a peoples which then took over Shang. Before the 1899 finds at Anyang, all we knew about the Shang mainly came from Shiji, the Historical Records, some of which are plainly mythical in origin (e.g. the time of Huangdi etc). The Shang royal house after conquest wasn't destroyed utterly, but during the beginning of the Zhou dynasty, the lands of the Shang were given over to Weizi Qi, the brother of the last Shang King, and made the State of Song. The state continued in existence until 286 BC when it was conquered by its neighbours. Other sources of information include some of the oldest Chinese literature including Shijing, The Books of Poetry, in which some of the poems/songs praise the ancestors of the Shang.
If you are editing an area with which you are unfamiliar, you may wish to use the 'citation needed' boilerplate, before cutting away huge swathes of text. Otherwise, your use of 'original research' as justification for cutting away stuff may be taken as vandalism. Dylanwhs 07:21, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Guqin
Absolutely the information you added back into the guqin article is very relevant, and should be there. I don't know how or why it got removed in the first place. Badagnani 01:55, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] template:country
Why do you keep adding and removing an empty line to template:country? [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]. This causes all transcluding pages to be cache-purged. --Ligulem 19:49, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Self-reversed edits to Golden Gate Bridge
Please refrain from making test edits in Wikipedia articles even if your ultimate intention is to revert them. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Ronbo76 01:49, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
