496-465 B.C.E.) of Yue possessed five precious swords (bao jian) that were known throughout the
subcelestial realm.
"Surgery, like Poetry, is a
subcelestial art." Yes, Selzer writes of gore, but always with sensitivity, gentleness, and awe.
judges deciding cases often write exactly like advocates arguing them -- even when, as is inherently true in the case of United States Supreme Court Justices, they sit on a court of last resort and need fear no
subcelestial reversal" (p.
On the other hand we have a decidedly pre-Galilean Ficino, in step with the assumptions of his age, reproving poets for suggesting that things familiar to us in the
subcelestial realm could be attributed to supercelestial entities.
In both cases, the standard historical accounts focus on the rebellion at the imperial level and virtually ignore how the event played out in smaller locales across the "
subcelestial realm." This focus is due largely to the particular set of concerns typically addressed by orthodox historiography, and not because of the absence of local evidence.
[11] Just as Liu Xiu had emerged from the discord of the age and reunited the subcelestial realm, Liu Bei harbored similar aspirations.
Han originally was the name of the state whence the Exalted Ancestor [Liu Bang] rose up and pacified the subcelestial realm.
In the twenty-sixth year of the Jian'an period, [17] on the bingwu day of the fourth month (6 April 221), the emperor [Liu] Bei makes bold to use a black bullock and announce to the heavenly thearch and the earthly spirits that Han possesses the subcelestial realm, its days without limit.
The subcelestial realm is divided into three parts.
The Former Sovereign [Liu Bei] and the Martial Marquis [Zhuge Liang] possessed a mind to bring together the subcelestial realm, and therefore appropiately called [their state] 'Han.' 'Han' is the term for the unified subcelestial realm." [80] Rao Zongyi's commentary on this essay provides additional insights on the relationship between the name of the state and the legitimacy debate.
When he returned, he retired to live quietly; he forsook his reign over the
subcelestial realm because he felt that the way of governing by knotting cords had been defiled.(31) When it came to the era of Yao and Shun, they made sacrificial offerings with a thousand bronze bells and a hundred wine vessels.
And since they were taken as clan teachers throughout the
subcelestial realm, the styles of Zhong [You] and Wang [Xizhi] have become increasingly insignificant.(27)