英文摘要
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The historical literatures about “Shanghai Museum Bamboo Manuscripts” were diverse and highly valuable. The manuscripts were the productions of mid and late Warring States Period. Although they were secondary sources, as compared with other historical records, there were less subjective additions and deletions or slips of the pen from later scholars, and their academic value was undoubtedly higher. While conducting historical research, the closer the era of historical events, it is always also the more possible to preserve its true face. Although these bamboo manuscripts were the works of the Warring States Period, they were mutual referred and proved by later literatures, their lacks were also supplemented. All of these activities demonstrated the academic value of these bamboo manuscripts, and their historical literatures were worth for further study.
In these bamboo manuscripts, the contents related to King Zhuang, Ling and Ping of the Chu were “zhuang wang ji cheng”, “jeng tz jia sang”, “shen gong chen ling wang”, “ping wang wen zheng shou”, and “ping wang yu wang zi mu”. These five brief writings were included in the sixth and seventh volume of “Shanghai Museum Bamboo Manuscripts”. They were novel and complete, and many incomprehensible characters or explanatory notes required to be explored. These brief writings would be important historical reference and proof materials, however, historians could get useful information from them only after the characters or explanatory notes could be unraveled and the manuscripts become readable to them. Therefore, the thesis focuses on the textual explication and explanatory notes of the bamboo manuscripts, and involves in historical proofs. Some difficult characters that involve lots of reference materials are systematically discussed in individual sections.
The above-mentioned brief writings were the first-hand materials of Chu written by Chu men. Among them, only the corresponding words of “ping wang yu wang zi mu” were found in “Bianwu, Shuouan” and “Fuyang Bamboo Slips”, the rest chapters of these writings were lost after Han Period. The author takes these five writings as object of study, tries to determine the writing, to researches historical facts, and expects to make the writings plain and to manifest their values.
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