old tale

There is a book named "列子(Liezi)" in China.
 　
列子 is the name of the person originally.
He was a man of the same era with Confucius.(around 5 century BC.)
And he was a representative of Taoism.　
　
Words and actions of he and his disciples.
A collection of them.
Its book also called 列子.

This is said so.
　
Note："Liezi" is pronunciation in modern Chinese.


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But it seems legend apparently.
He is a fictional character in the first place.
Its likely.
　
The Han dynasty. (漢王朝・208BC‐8AD，25AD‐220AD)
And The Jin dynasty who united China for a period of time.
(晋王朝 as a national dynasty・265AD－316AD)
　
Realistically,列子 seems to be apocryphal book made ​​around this time.

However，old tale and narrative of the time.
They seem to have been many collected in this book.
　
　
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Early time of the Han dynasty.
Buddhism seems to have been introduced to China.
However，the presence of Buddhism seems to have been known by the Chinese before that as the religion of the people of Central Asia.
　
Story like it comes out as one episode of 列子.
(Although，the name of Buddhism does not come out.)
　
"There is a country to the west of Qin kingdom.
If the parent is dead in this country.
Children burn parent's dead body by firewood.
　
Parent was Ascension.　
By its smoke rises，it was considered so.
　
If children do not do this，they were considered a lack of filial piety."

It's a episode like this.

Qin kingdom is a country that became the origin of the word  of China.
And Qin kingdom is a country of most west of China of Warring States period.

Most importantly，Qin is a unified dynasty of China first. (221BC－206BC)
But this would be episode of the Warring States period.
Because the name of another countries where the vanished in Warring States period comes out.
(In another part of this episode.)

Note:Qin is 秦.
Pronunciation of 秦 in Japan.
　
漢 is Shin.
呉 is Jin.

The most common pronunciation is ”shin" in Japan.