摘要
叙言五十多年来,在我国西北甘新地区,即汉代河西四郡和西域的地带,曾经先后出土了大宗的汉简。按照汉代郡县,可分为以下五类。一、敦煌汉简共出三批。(1)1906—1908年斯坦因采获705枚,报告见《中亚与中国西域考古记》(Serindia)和《中国沙漠考古记》(Ruins of Desert Cathay),简影见于沙畹《中国古文书》及王国维《流沙坠简》。(2)1913—1915年斯坦因采获84枚。
Divided into two parts (chapters),the present paper is a preliminary study on the documents of the Han dynasty military colonies unearthed in 1930 along the banks of the Edsen Gol in Inner Mongolia.Its purpose is to ascertain the extent andlayout of frontier defense installations along the banks of the Edsen Gol from thelatter part of the reign of Emperor Wu-ti of Western Han onwards.These consistof a long but often disconnected wall,10 forts,156 watch-towers,a pavilion,a houseand six walled-enclosures or settlements.In addition to this main line of defensewhich stretches from north to south along the river for about 250 kilometres,thereis also a branch line which extends over the mesa area for about 60 kilometres.The first part of the paper gives a general description of this defense wall.Thearchitecture found in the remains was invariably built of unfired bricks,rammedearth or long blocks of stone.Although partially repaired in subsequent times,mostof them were built in the beginning of the first entury B.C.The reign years foundon the slips reveal that they were first built in the Western Han but were still inuse toward the end of the Eastern Han,i.e.the middle of the second century A.D.Apparently,they had played an important role in protecting the Ho Hsi Corridor(Kansu Corridor) against the Hsiung Nu tribes.The second part of the paper seeks to identify the postal stations along thisfrontier and calculate the distances between them on the basis of the recordsdealing with the dispatch and return of couriers found on the slips un-earthed at various sites.This has shed some new light on the military organization ofthe garrison forces along this 250-kilometre-long frontier.The latter were headed bytwo Tu Wei,each responsible for a long stretch of the frontier defense,under thePrefecture of Chang Yi.The one in charge of the northern section was the Tu Weiof Chu Yen while the southern section was under the command of the Tu Wei ofChien Shui.Each Tu Wei commanded about five Hou and below the latterranked successively
出处
《考古学报》
1963年第1期77-110,175,共35页
Acta Archaeologica Sinica
