AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY CONCERNING THE ORIGIN OF THE QIN PEOPLE IN THE TSINGHUA BAMBOO MANUSCRIPTS

摘要

Most of the Tsinghua Bamboo Slips(TBS)texts date from the Warring States period and they are either works of the(so-called)Classics(jing,經)or Historical books(shi,史).One of the TBS texts,which features prominently in the collection as a particularly well-preserved piece,is a historical work in 23 chapters and 132 bamboo slips,which has been provisionally titled Xinian繫年(‘Chronicles’).The historical events recorded therein range from the period when King Wu(Wuwang,武王),the founder of the Zhou Dynasty,conquered Zhòu(紂)of Shang,to the early Warring States Period.The edited text of the Xinian has been published in the second volume of the‘Bamboo Manuscripts of the Warring States Period in the Tsinghua University Collection’(Qinghua Daxue cang Zhanguo zhujian清華大學藏戰國竹簡).