Yunmeng Qin bamboo slips

Chop bamboo and wood into long and narrow pieces, and then scrape the surface flat. This kind of long and narrow bamboo or wood chips used for writing is called bamboo slips or wooden slips, and the wide bamboo or wooden slips are called bamboo slips or wooden slips.

Bamboo slips are bamboo slips and wood chips used for writing in ancient China, which are not listed in a book. Before the invention of paper, bamboo slips were the main form of China's books. Qin bamboo slips are the general name of bamboo slips left by Qin State in the Warring States and the post-Qin period.

1At the end of 975, more than100 bamboo slips at the end of the Warring States Period were unearthed from Qin Tomb in Yunmeng County, Hubei Province. In 2002, more than 30,000 Qin bamboo slips were found in Ye Town, Longshan County, Hunan Province. The main content is the archives of Ganling County, Dongting County, Qin Province, including ancestral agricultural slips, place name mileage slips, household registration slips, etc. Its discovery will greatly make up for the lack of historical materials.

Yunmeng Qin Bamboo Slips originated from Qin TombNo. 1 1 in Sleeping Tiger Land, and the owner of TombNo. 1 1 is a magistrate in charge of justice. These bamboo slips are 23. 1-27.8 cm long and 0.5-0.8 cm wide. Their contents are mainly the legal system, administrative documents, medical works and divination books about good and bad days in the Qin Dynasty.

Bamboo slips are classified into chronology, calligraphy, 18 kinds of Qin law, effective law, miscellaneous copying of Qin law, law solution, official road and Japanese book.

Fifty-two bamboo slips recorded the history from the year of Qin Zhaoyuan (306 BC) to the thirty years of Qin Shihuang (265438 BC+07 BC).

Eighteen kinds of Qin laws, effective laws, miscellaneous copies of Qin laws, legal questions and answers, and closed clinics can be collectively called Qin laws documents. This book was written in different times.

Eighteen Kinds of Qin Laws consists of 202 slips, including 18 kinds of laws, covering agriculture, warehouses, currency, trade, corvee, officials, titles, handicrafts and so on. Every law is an excerpt, not a full text. The "Effective Law" ***6 1 Jane has made detailed provisions on the verification of material accounts of counties and officials. The law is particularly strict in the management of weapons, armor, leather and other armaments, and also clearly stipulates the standards and errors of weights and measures. There are 42 * * * bamboo slips copied from Qin Law, which are 1 1 laws copied by the tomb owner before his death, and many of them are related to military affairs.

Legal question and answer, ***2 10 Jane, explains the provisions, clauses and intentions of Qin law in the form of question and answer, which is equivalent to the current legal interpretation. Mainly explain the main part of Qin law (that is, criminal law), but also talk about litigation procedures.

***98 Letter "Closed Clinic" is about the principles of trial and the provisions and cases of investigation, inquest, trial and seizure of cases. It provides detailed information for studying the history of calligraphy development in China and the politics, law, economy, culture and medicine of Qin Empire. The discovery of Qin bamboo slips plays an irreplaceable role in studying the history of Qin State.