Alliance inscriptions on stone and jade plates from Houma

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Houma mengshu ( Chinese  侯马 盟 书 , Pinyin Hóumǎ méngshū , English Jade covenant inscriptions from Houma  - " Alliance inscriptions on stone and jade tiles from Houma ") are treaty texts from the state of Jin from the later spring and autumn annals to the early days the Warring States . They are also known as Houma zaishu (侯马 载 书).

They were discovered in 1965 in Houma ( Chinese  侯馬  /  侯马 , Pinyin Hóumǎ ), Shanxi Province , China, and consist of over 5000 inscribed stone or jade plates.

The Houma mengshu is mainly a report on how Minister Zhao Meng (赵孟) from Jin State made use of alliance promises to bring the defeated followers under control in order to consolidate his own position of rule after his political opponents were defeated. The Mengshu is of great value for the study of political struggles and the alliance system of the later Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States Period .

output

  • Shanxi sheng wenwu gongzuo weiyuanhui: Houma mengshu. Shanghai: Wenwu chubanshe, 1976.

literature

  • Susan Roosevelt Weld: Covenant in Jin's Walled Cities: The Discoveries at Houma and Wenxian. Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University, 1990
  • Susan R. Weld: The Covenant Texts from Houma and Wenxian. In: Edward L. Shaughnessy (Ed.): New Sources of Early Chinese History: An Introduction of the Reading of Inscriptions and Manuscripts. Berkeley: the Society for the Study of Early China and the Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley 1997

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