It has all along been a controversial issue in academic circles how to denominate grave goods recording slips and tablets. According to textual records, scholars usually call them “qiance 遣策，” i.e. slips with lis...It has all along been a controversial issue in academic circles how to denominate grave goods recording slips and tablets. According to textual records, scholars usually call them “qiance 遣策，” i.e. slips with lists of tomb furniture and the names of donors. Combining literary records with archaeological finds, the author of this paper points out the limitation of this denomination, and, on the basis of archaeological discoveries, puts forward the name "wushu" jiandu“物疏”简牍, or slips and tablets with lists of funeral objects. Furthermore, she discusses the shape and number of wushu jiandu, the form of writing and recording on them, and their placement in tombs, as well as the distribution of these tombs.展开更多
The 29 inscribed bamboo slips, which were unearthed from Tomb 1 at Changtaiguan, Xinyang, Henan province, might have been organized into a volume for recording the funeral objects of Tomb 1. In this article, the autho...The 29 inscribed bamboo slips, which were unearthed from Tomb 1 at Changtaiguan, Xinyang, Henan province, might have been organized into a volume for recording the funeral objects of Tomb 1. In this article, the author discusses some characters on the bamboo slips such as cun(inch), jing(diameter), bo(width), yin(mat), etc. Based on the interpretation of these characters and the position of the related funeral objects, a group of the 6 bamboo slips numbered 2-09, 2-07, 2-10, 2-15, 2-13, 2-02 and another one of the 4 bamboo slips numbered 2-21, 2-23, 2-19, 2-28 are placed in order separately.展开更多
文摘It has all along been a controversial issue in academic circles how to denominate grave goods recording slips and tablets. According to textual records, scholars usually call them “qiance 遣策，” i.e. slips with lists of tomb furniture and the names of donors. Combining literary records with archaeological finds, the author of this paper points out the limitation of this denomination, and, on the basis of archaeological discoveries, puts forward the name "wushu" jiandu“物疏”简牍, or slips and tablets with lists of funeral objects. Furthermore, she discusses the shape and number of wushu jiandu, the form of writing and recording on them, and their placement in tombs, as well as the distribution of these tombs.
文摘The 29 inscribed bamboo slips, which were unearthed from Tomb 1 at Changtaiguan, Xinyang, Henan province, might have been organized into a volume for recording the funeral objects of Tomb 1. In this article, the author discusses some characters on the bamboo slips such as cun(inch), jing(diameter), bo(width), yin(mat), etc. Based on the interpretation of these characters and the position of the related funeral objects, a group of the 6 bamboo slips numbered 2-09, 2-07, 2-10, 2-15, 2-13, 2-02 and another one of the 4 bamboo slips numbered 2-21, 2-23, 2-19, 2-28 are placed in order separately.
