On December 10, Tsinghua University held a press conference on the results of "Tsinghua University's Tibetan Warring States Bamboo Slips (Pick Three)". This collection of reports published a total of five bamboo books, such as "Doctor's Food Rites", "Doctor's Food Rites", "Five Tone Diagrams", "Music Style", "Fear of Heaven and Use Body", all of which are unseen books in handed down documents, two of which are the first discovered ritual documents of the Warring States Period, which provide new information for the study of the etiquette system, ** and ideas in the pre-Qin period.
The most eye-catching of the three collections of Tsinghua Jane are the two ritual books "The Doctor's Food Ceremony" and "The Doctor's Food Ceremony". These two bamboo books are compiled into one volume, with 51 bamboo slips and 14 bamboo slips respectively. The former records the ritual rites of the guests and the servants in the doctor's food ceremony, and the latter describes the specific etiquette of the deacons during the food ceremony. 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".
The other two ** articles are also 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.
In addition, "Fear of Heaven and Use Body" is an ideological literature, with a total of 17 concise texts, complete content, no missing simplifications, focusing on the relationship between heaven and man and giving full play to people's subjective initiative. Jianwen high-profile propaganda of people's subjective consciousness, fully demonstrated the positive and enterprising spirit of the Warring States Period, and provided new documents for the study of pre-Qin intellectual history.
Tsinghua Jane entered Tsinghua University in 2008, and under the leadership of Mr. Li Xueqin and Mr. Huang Dekuan, the report has been successfully published in 13 volumes. The high efficiency and high quality of the 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 the collation of "Tsinghua Jane" has entered the stage of tackling tough problems, and the team will overcome difficulties to ensure the publication progress of one volume per year, and announce this batch of important materials to the society and academia as soon as possible.
In cooperation with Xuetang**, this conference was broadcast live to the world online, with more than 1.4 million people online, including famous scholars at home and abroad.
Text: Beijing Youth Daily reporter Lei Jia.
Edited by Ye Wan.