China Education Daily-China Education News Network News (Reporter Dong Lu Wanlong) On December 10, the results of the "Tsinghua University Tibetan Warring States Bamboo Slips (Shi San)" was held at Tsinghua University, and more than 100 experts and scholars from scientific research institutions and schools across the country attended the on-site press conference. In addition, this conference cooperated with Xuetang to broadcast live to the world online, and more than 1.4 million people, including famous scholars at home and abroad, attended the conference online.
This collection of reports published a total of five bamboo books, including "Doctor's Food Rites", "Doctor's Food Rites", "Five Tone Diagrams", "Music Style", and "Fear of Heaven and Use Body", all of which are unknown books that have not been seen in the handed down literature, and provide new information for the study of the etiquette system, ** and ideas in the pre-Qin period.
Among them, the most eye-catching are the two ritual books "The Doctor's Food Rites" and "The Doctor's Food Rites". The former records the ritual rites of the guests and the ministers in the doctor's food ceremony, and the latter describes the specific etiquette of the deacons during the food ceremony, and the two articles complement each other. The words and phrases of the brief text are similar to those of the "Rites of Etiquette", and the number of prostrations is closest to that of the "Rites of the Doctor". This is the first discovery of the lost pre-Qin ritual book in the Warring States period bamboo book, which not only reproduces the original appearance of the ritual book in the Warring States period, but also embodies some characteristics of the food ritual of the Chu Di doctor, and has important reference value for the study of the pre-Qin ritual system and the "Rites".
Two ** literature, the content is very important. The "Five Tone Diagram" ** depicts a five-pointed star, the upper corner of which corresponds to the sound name of the palace group, and the other four corners correspond to the quotient, horn, sign, and feather groups, which are distributed in a counterclockwise direction. The five-pointed star figure is composed of five connecting lines: "Gong-Zheng", "Zheng-Shang", "Shang-Yu", "Yu-Jiao" and "Jiao-Gong", which shows the law of the generation of five tones, and the idea behind it is the "three-point profit and loss method", which is consistent with the order of the generation of five tones recorded in books such as "Guanzi" and "Huainanzi". The book is divided into two parts, the first part records the name of the rhythm, and the latter part is difficult to determine. The two music books provide important materials for the study of the early Chinese music theory system and the history of the pre-Qin period.
"Fear of Heaven and Use Body" is an ideological literature, a total of 17 Jane, the content is complete, no defects Jane, around the relationship between heaven and man, give full play to the subjective initiative of human beings, the brief text high-profile propaganda of human subjectivity, fully demonstrate the positive and enterprising spirit of the Warring States Period, and provide new literature for the study of pre-Qin intellectual history.
Tsinghua Jian entered Tsinghua University in 2008, under the leadership of Mr. Li Xueqin and Mr. Huang Dekuan, the collation report has been successfully published in 13 volumes, and the efficiency and high quality of the collation team's work have been widely praised by the academic community, and have also been highly valued by the overseas sinology community. At the press conference, the Center for Research and Protection of Unearthed Literature said that Tsinghua University has entered the stage of tackling tough problems, and the collation team will overcome difficulties to ensure the publication progress of one volume per year, and announce these important materials to the society and academia as soon as possible.
Author: Dong Lu Wanlong.