Book Chapters of The Meng Xi Bi Tan
The Humanities:
- Official life and the imperial court (60 paragraphs)
- Academic and examination matters (10 paragraphs)
- Literary and artistic (70 paragraphs)
- Law and police (11 paragraphs)
- Military (25 paragraphs)
- Miscellaneous stories and anecdotes (72 paragraphs)
- Divination, magic, and folklore (22 paragraphs)
The Natural Sciences:
- On the I Ching, Yin and Yang, and 5 elements (7 paragraphs)
- Mathematics (11 paragraphs)
- Astronomy and calendar (19 paragraphs)
- Meteorology (18 paragraphs)
- Geology and mineralogy (17 paragraphs)
- Geography and cartography (15 paragraphs)
- Physics (6 paragraphs)
- Chemistry (3 paragraphs)
- Engineering, metallurgy, and technology (18 paragraphs)
- Irrigation and hydraulic engineering (6 paragraphs)
- Architecture (6 paragraphs)
- Biological sciences, botany, and zoology (52 paragraphs)
- Agricultural arts (6 paragraphs)
- Medicine and pharmaceutics (23 paragraphs)
The Humanistic Sciences:
- Anthropology (6 paragraphs)
- Archeology (21 paragraphs)
- Philology (36 paragraphs)
- Music (44 paragraphs)
(Total number of paragraphs = 584)
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