Based on the current research on the unearthed cultural relics, it has been found that the prose records include the following aspects, which are explained as follows:
1. Contents of the prose chapters:
The first volume
In December 2010, "Warring States Period Bamboo Slips from the Tsinghua University Collection (1)" was published. On January 5, 2011, the first batch of results was officially released, including 9 documents, including "Yin Zhi" and "Yin Gao" "Cheng Huan", "Bao Xun", "Qi Ye", "Jin Rui", "Imperial Gate", "Ji Gong" and "Chu Ju". Among them, two chapters, "Yin Zhi" and "Yin Gao", describe events in the late summer and early Shang Dynasty, three chapters "Cheng Huan", "Baoxun" and "Qi Ye" belong to the late Shang Dynasty. "Gong" is a historical event of the Zhou Dynasty, while "Chu Ju" tells the history of Chu State.
Li Xueqin, director of the Center for Research and Protection of Unearthed Documents at Tsinghua University, believes that the first batch of documents has five major academic contributions: reproducing "Shang Shu" and similar classics, clarifying some long-debated problems in academic history, and discovering previously unknown documents. The unknown poems of the Zhou Dynasty restored the history and geography of Chu State and provided precious materials for the study of ancient characters, especially Chu characters.
The second volume
"Warring States Period Bamboo Slips from Tsinghua University (II)" contains a historical work that has been lost for more than 2,300 years. The staff of the Unearthed Documents Research and Protection Center of Tsinghua University will It was named "Xinian". "Xinian" contains 138 bamboo slips in one chapter, and the whole text is divided into 23 chapters, recording the history from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the early Warring States period. Many of the events are not found in handed down documents, which may have some influence on "Zuo Zhuan" ", "Guoyu", "Historical Records" and other classics have a revision effect.
The third series
Three chapters of "Fu Shuo's Ming": The brief text is about 45 cm long, with three chapters and 24 branches. "Fu Shuo's Ming" is part of "Shang Shu", but it is completely different from the content of "Fu Shuo's Ming" in the ancient text "Shang Shu" presented by Mei Zhen in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The Tsinghua bamboo slips "Fu Shuo's Ming" The appearance of "Yin Gao" or "Xian Youde" published in the first volume of "Tsinghua University Collection of Warring States Bamboo Slips" confirms that the handed down version of the Confucian biography is a forgery.
"Zhou Gong's Qin Dance": The brief length is 45 cm, with 17 stems. It is a set of music poems, consisting of ten odes. This is a music poem with a similar structure to "Da Wu". The content is that the Duke of Zhou returned to power and became king.
"Rui Liang Fu Yao": The bamboo slip is 44.7 centimeters long and is tentatively designated as 28 bamboo slips. The cautionary "毖" poems are political poems that ridicule current affairs.
"Good Ministers": The bamboo slip is about 32.8 cm long and has 11 branches. The text of the bamboo slip is written coherently throughout. It mainly describes the good ministers of the Yellow Emperor and even the famous monarchs in the Spring and Autumn Period.
"Congratulations": It is a concise article with strong witchcraft color, which records some ancient witchcraft spells, such as what spells to recite when encountering fire, drowning, etc.
"The Collection of Red Birds": The bamboo slip is 45 centimeters long and has 15 branches. The eye-catching feature of the bamboo slip is that it has a strong witchcraft color.
2. Supplementary explanation of Tsinghua bamboo slips:
A batch of Warring States bamboo slips collected by Tsinghua University in July 2008 are called "Tsinghua bamboo slips". Carbon 14 testing has confirmed that the Tsinghua bamboo slips are cultural relics of the middle and late Warring States Period, and the writing style is mainly from the Chu State. The number of bamboo slips is about 2,500 (including a few fragmentary slips), which is the largest number among the Warring States bamboo slips discovered so far. many. Tsinghua bamboo slips were buried underground before the Qin Dynasty and were not affected by "burning books and entrapping Confucians", so they can show the original appearance of pre-Qin ancient books to the maximum extent. Studying them can help understand the early appearance and development of Chinese culture.