Royal Canon of Tsinh

The Royal Canon of Tsinh is a list of Tsinh rulers to whom supplication was paid regularly. While the canon first appears in historical works dating to the late 4th century and contains 43 members, a version revised based on the contents of the Springs and Autumns of Six States has put the figure at 70; their lifetimes are estimated to range from the 8th or 9th centuries BCE down to the point the canon was set to writing.

Contents

1	Kerap	Qrut	Prang	Neting	Met	Keq	Kerang	Sin	Nem	Ghwiq
2	Prang I
3	Qrut I	Nem Brilliant	(missing)	(missing)
4	Neting I	Kerap Ancestor	Keq Ancestor	(missing)	(missing)	(perhaps missing)	(perhaps missing)
5	Qrut II	Kerang I	Ting Face	Nem II Great
6	Kerap II	Neting II	Prang III	Sin I	Nem III	Keq II	Met Heir
7	Sin Later	Prang IV	Qrut III	(missing)
8	Kerang Later	Neting III	(missing)	Ghwiq Heir
9	Kerap III	Keq III	Prang V	Qrut Heir	Kerang Great
10	Qrut IV	Prang VI	Sin III	Prang VII Lesser
11	Qrut IV	Neting IV	Met Middle	Sin Younger	Kerang III	Qrut V
12	Sin IV Outsider	Qrut VI Outsider	Kerap V	Neting V
13	Kerang III
12	Qrut V	Kerang IV
13	Prang Outsider	Kerap VI
14	Neting Glorious	Nem IV	Keq IV
15	Prang VIII Southerner
16	Kerang V
17	Sin	Kerap
18	Neting
19	Prang
20	Sin V
21	Qrut
22	Qrut
23	Qrut

Analysis

It is generally agreed that the reason why the Canon survives as such and in this way is the cyclic worship of royal ancestors, to whom offerings were made in order of the most remote to the most recently deceased. This was an continual affair at the royal court of Tsinh from at least the 2nd century BCE.