In 1973 in the province Hunan an ancient hill named
'Mawangdui' near the town Changsa was opened.
Mawangdui means Horse King Hill. The grave contained
the remains of an woman and a man, probably mother and son. The man was a
nobleman, the marquis of Dai.
Among the many gifts a large library was found. The
marquis had more than 50 different books on his journey to eternity.
One of the scriptures consists of six
philosophical works, written on a piece of silk of 75 cm. Two of them
were already known, they were the Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu, only in the
reverse order than we are knowing them in present times. The other
scriptures were the four scriptures of the Yellow Emperor, mentioned in
history, but unknown till now.
The last of those, seems to belong more or less to the
scriptures Lao Tzu and are called 'Calling names' and 'The origin of Tao'.
On this pages this text appears for the first time
on the Internet. It is translated from Chinese to Dutch and then from
Dutch to English.
Sources
"De vier geschriften van de Gele Keizer"
translated from Chinese by
G.J. Mansvelt Beck.
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