education as well as social and religious institutions; Offices of Summer () on the army; Office of Autumn () on justice; Office of Winter () on population, territory, and agriculture. The work consists mainly of schematic lists of Zhou dynasty bureaucrats, stating what the function of each office is and who is eligible to hold it. Sometimes though the mechanical listing is broken off by pieces of philosophical exposition on how a given office contributes to social harmony and enforces the universal order. The division of chapters follows the six departments of the Zhou dynasty government. The bureaucrats within a department come in five ranks: minister ( ), councilor ( ), senior clerk ( ), middle clerk ( ) and junior clerk ( ). There is only one minister per department -the department head-, but the other four ranks all have multiple holders spread across various specific professions. In addition to the Etiquette and Ceremonial, the Rites of Zhou contain one of the earliest references to the Three Obediences and Four Virtues, a set of principles directed exclusively at women that formed a core part of female education during the Zhou. Record of Trades A part of the Winter Offices, the Record of Trades (), contains important information on technology, architecture, city planning, and other topics. A passage records that, "The master craftsman constructs the state capital. He makes a square nine on one side; each side has three gates. Within the capital are nine north-south and nine east-west streets. The north-south streets are nine carriage tracks in width". References Citations Sources Bibliography Boltz, William G., 'Chou li' in: Early Chinese Texts. A Bibliographical Guide (Loewe, Michael, ed.), pp. 24–32, Berkeley: Society for the Study of Early China, 1993, (Early China Special Monograph Series No. 2), . Karlgren, Bernhard, 'The Early History of the Chou li and Tso chuan Texts' in: Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquites, 3 (1931), pp. 1–59 Nylan, Michael, The Five 'Confucian' Classics, New Haven (Yale University Press), 2001, , Chapter 4, The Three Rites Canon pp. 168–202. External links Rites of Zhou Rites of Zhou Chinese classic texts Confucian texts Thirteen Classics Confucian rites