Shuihudi
Shuihudi ( Chinese 睡 虎 地 ) is an archaeological site in Yunmeng ( Chinese 云梦 ), in the Chinese province of Hubei .
Shuihudi is particularly well-known for the discovery of the " bamboo tablets of the Qin and Han periods " (Chinese 秦 墓 Pin; Pinyin: Qínmù zhújiǎn; English Qin tomb bamboo slips), which is also known as " Qin bamboo slips" in Chinese specialist literature Yunmeng "(Yúnmèng Qínjiǎn 云梦 秦 简). The full name is " Bamboo tablets of the Qin and Han times from Shuihudi " (Shuihudi Qinmu zhujian 睡 虎 地 秦 墓 竹简), whereby the German translation takes into account that texts from the Western Han dynasty were also discovered there. Also the names "Qin bamboo tablets from Shuihudi" (Shuihudi Qinjian 睡 虎 地 秦 简), "Bamboo tablets from Yunmeng" (Chinese 云梦 竹简; Pinyin: Yúnmèng zhújiǎn) or simply "Qin bamboo tablets" (Qinjian 秦 简) are common.
This is the Qin tomb, excavated in December 1975 in the town of Shuihudi, Hubei Province near Yunmeng (,) , in which there were over 1,100 bamboo tablets, mostly with legal texts from the time of Qinshihuang . The grave is dated to 217 BC. Dated.
Was buried in it an official from Nan commandery (Nanjun南郡), which in the late Warring States Period of King Zhaoxiang (昭襄) from the State of Qin after the conquest of the capital Ying (郢) of Chu v 278th Was built.
Texts
- Biannianji 编 年 记
- Falü dawen 法律 答问
- Fengzhenshi 封 诊 式
- Jiaolü 效 律
- Qinlü zachao 秦律 杂 抄
- Qinlü shiba zhong 秦律 十八 种
- Rishu 日 书 (A)
- Rishu 日 书 (B)
- Wei li zhi dao 为 吏 之 道
- Yushu 语 书
Name variants for the text finds
Qinmu zhujian, Yunmeng zhujian, Shuihudi Qinmu zhujian, Shuihudi Qinjian, Yunmeng Qinjian, Qinjian
literature
- Shuihudi Qinmu zhujian zhengli xiaozu: Shuihudi Qinmu zhujian. Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1978. (With a translation into modern Chinese)
- Yunmeng Shuihudi Qinmu bianxiezu: Yunmeng Shuihudi Qinmu. Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1981.
- AFP Hulsewé: Remnants of Ch'in Law: An Annotated Translation of the Ch'in Legal and Administrative Rules of the 3rd Century BC Discovered in Yün-meng Prefecture, Hu-pei Province, in 1975. Leiden: Brill, 1985.