Guodian bamboo texts

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The Guodian bamboo texts or Chu -period bamboo texts from Guodian ( Chinese  郭店楚簡 , Pinyin Guōdiàn Chǔjiǎn or Guodian Chujian ) were found in 1993 from grave number 1 of the Guodian graves in the village of Guodian (郭店 村) in the Jishan community (纪 山镇) of the circle Shayang (沙洋县) of the prefecture-level city of Jingmen in the province of Hubei unearthed. The team of archaeologists believe that the tomb should be dated to the second half of the Warring States Period (mid-4th to early 3rd century BC). The texts were written on the bamboo tablets before or around the time of the burial.

The tomb is located in the Jishan District Tomb Complex, near Jingmen City in Guodian Village and just 9 kilometers north of Ying , the ancient capital of Chu State from 476 BC. BC to 278 BC Before the Qin overran the Chu state . The tomb and its contents were examined to determine the identity of the owner of the tomb: an elderly noble scholar and teacher of a royal prince. The prince was identified as Crown Prince Heng, who later became King Qingxiang of Chu.

There are a total of 804 bamboo tablets from this site, 702 of which are written and 27 broken tablets with a total of 12072 characters. The bamboo tablets consist of three main categories which include the earliest authentic manuscripts of the Daodejing , a chapter from the Book of Rites, and anonymous writings. After the restoration, these texts were divided into eighteen sections, transcribed into standard Chinese and published in May 1998 under the title Bamboo Tablets from the Chu Age Tomb in Guodian ( Guodian Chu mu zhujian ). The texts on the bamboo strips include both Daoist and Confucian works, many of them previously unknown, nonetheless, the discovery of these texts in the same grave of scholars has provided fresh information for the study of philosophical thought in ancient China. According to Gao Zheng of the Institute of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the main body could be teaching material used by the Confucian Si Meng scholars of Jixia Academy . Qu Yuan , who was sent to Qi as an envoy , may have taken her back to Chu with him.

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01-03 Laozi jia, yi, bing 老子 甲 、 乙 、 丙 Laozi Part A, B & C
04 Taiyi shengshui 太 一生 水 The Great One gave birth to the water
05 Ziyi 緇 衣 Black robes
06 Lu Mu gong wen Zi Si 魯穆 公 問 子思 Duke Mu von Lu asks Zi Si
07 Qiongda yi shi 窮 達 以 時 Misery and success depend on the age
08 Wuxing 五行 The five behaviors
09 Tang Yu zhi dao 唐虞 之 道 The way of Tang and Yu (Yao and Shun)
10 Zhongxin zhi dao 忠信 之 道 The way of loyalty and trust
11 Cheng zhi wen zhi 成 之 聞 之 The perfect man possesses heavenly virtues (?)
12 Zun de yi 尊 德 義 Honor virtue and righteousness
13 Xing zi ming chu 性 自命 出 Recipes for Nourishing Life (?)
14th Liu de 六 德 The six virtues
15-18 Yucong yi, er, san, si 語 叢 一 、 二 、 三 、 四 Thicket of sayings part 1, 2, 3 & 4

literature

  • Jingmen shi bowuguan (Jingmen City Museum): Guodian Chumu zhujian郭店 楚墓 竹简(Chu-period bamboo texts from Guodian) , Beijing: Wenwu Chubanshe 1998, ISBN 7-5010-1000-5 (standard edition of the texts)
  • Zhang Guangyu et al .: Guodian Chujian yanjiu (Examination of the Hu-period bamboo manuscripts from Guodian), Yee Wen Publishing Co., Taipei, 1999, ISBN 7-5010-1000-5
  • Sarah Allen and Crispin Williams (Eds.): The Guodian Laozi: Proceedings of the International Conference, Dartmouth College, May 1998 Berkeley, Cal .: Society for the Study of Early China and the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley 2000
  • Edward L. Shaugnessy: Rewriting Early Chinese Texts , Albany, NY, 2006, ISBN 0-7914-6643-4
  • Shanghai bowuguan zang Zhanguo Chu zhushu (bamboo manuscripts from the Chu State of the Warring States Period in the holdings of the Shanghai Museum), so far 3 volumes, Shanghai: Shanghai shudian chubanshe, 2001, 2002, 2003

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