| Abstract |
In the autumn of 1989, nine tombs of Chin Dynasty were found at Lung-Kang (龍岡) on the outskirts of Yun-Mong county (雲夢), Hu-pei province, China. In the tomb of No. M6, there was a piece of wooden tablet placed on the belly of the remains. The final part of the tablet were some bamboo slips documented with the laws of Chin Dynasty, which were highly precious. When those bamboo slips were unearthed, the whole document had lain in fragments. The archeologists have sorted those fragments carefully and numbered them to 293 totally. In respect to the law description on those bamboo slips, there appeared some words such as “the emperor,” “the blackened face” (as a criminal), and “crimes,” which were subject to the society system after the first emperor of Chin had united China. It could be concluded that the age of Lung-Kang bamboo slips was later than those at the Shui Hu Ti (睡虎地). The contents of those bamboo slips at Lung-Kang were something related to the palace garden, the official avenue, the land systems, and the management of live stocks, which were quite similar to the law description of Chin Dynasty recorded on bamboo slips unearthed at Shui Hu Ti. The bamboo slips of Chin at Lung-Kang can be an evidence to prove that they were closely related to those slips unearthed at Shui Hu Ti. So the discovery of the bamboo slips of Chin at Lung-Kang will have great contribution to the comprehensive research of the law of Chin Dynasty. |
