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All public data, as CSV (opens in Excel), JSON, or one SQLite file with every table. Years are astronomical: 0 is 1 BCE. People are identified by their permanent ID (P0001), which never changes.
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people 0 rows
One row per person. `merged_into` gives the ID of the record a merged person now lives in.
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names 0 rows
Other names of each person (字, 號, 諡, 從祀稱號 …).
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biographies 0 rows
Where each book gives a person's biography. `copy` and `seq_start` locate the page scan.
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actions 0 rows
Dated enshrinement actions. Accounts of one event share an `occurrence`; `preferred` marks the one used.
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tenures 0 rows
Computed from the preferred actions. `end_year` is the year of removal (empty = still there).
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proposals 0 rows
Requests to enshrine someone, with the outcome (approved, rejected, shelved, unknown).
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relations 0 rows
Person-to-person links (師事, 私淑, 講友, 父子).
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polities 4 rows
States whose temples and rules are recorded.
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ritual_systems 0 rows
Empire-wide or kingdom-wide sacrificial rules.
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temples 227 rows
Real temples. Years are astronomical (0 = 1 BCE).
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documents 0 rows
Edicts, memorials and ritual texts (title and locator only).
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sources 16 rows
Books and scans that facts are cited from.
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citations 0 rows
Evidence for a row in another table: `table` and `row_id` say which one.
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works 12 rows
The 祭孔文獻 corpus: one row per edition.
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work_sections 0 rows
Parts of each work and what they contain (content-kind codes, separated by commas).
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hymns 0 rows
Hymns of the sacrifice, one per ritual step and rule.
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scores 0 rows
Music and dance scores: which book section sets which hymn, in which notation.
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roster_entries 0 rows
Seats in rosters, as the book gives them.