ISSN 1923-1555[Print] Studies in Literature and Language ISSN 1923-1563[Online] Vol. 11, No. 5, 2015, pp. 19-23 www.cscanada.net DOI:10.3968/7860 www.cscanada.org Overview of the Record Slips on the “List of Burial Clothing” During the Three Kingdoms, The Jin Dynasties and Southern and Northern Dynasties LI Shichi[a],[b],*; ZHANG Xiancheng[c] [a] Ph.D., Institute of Chinese Language and Literature, Southwest Key words: The Three Kingdoms; Two Jins and University, Chongqing, China. [b]Senior Secondary School Teacher in the High School Affiliated to Southern and Northern Dynasties; The unearthing Chinese Academy of Tropical Agriculture Sciences (CATAS), Danzhou, situation of the “list of burial clothing” China. [c] Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Institute of Chinese Language Li, S. C., & Zhang, X. C. (2015). Overview of the Record Slips and Literature, Southwest University/Research Center of Unearthed on the “List of Burial Clothing” During the Three Kingdoms, Literature, Southwest University, Chongqing, China. The Jin Dynasties and Southern and Northern Dynasties. *Corresponding author. Studies in Literature and Language, 11(5), 19-23. Available from: http://www.cscanada.net/index.php/sll/article/view/7860 Supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/7860 Universities (SWU1509395); Central University Basic Research Fund Project (SWU1509435). Received 30 August 2015; accepted 19 October 2015 Published online 26 November 2015 INTRODUCTION “List of burial clothing” refers to the list of clothing Abstract buried in tombs which is of the same strain as “Qian Ce”, “List of burial clothing (衣物疏)” refers to the list of the list of burial articles in tombs. “List of burial clothing” during the Three Kingdoms, two Jins and Southern and clothing buried in tombs which are of the same strain as Northern Dynasties refers to the list of clothing buried in “Qian Ce (遣策)”, the list of burial articles in tombs. “List tombs during the Three Kingdoms, two Jins and Southern of burial clothing” during the Three Kingdoms, two Jins and Northern Dynasties. Now available with 22 tombs and Southern and Northern Dynasties refers to the list of with funerary lists in the Three Kingdoms, two Jins and clothing buried in tombs during the Three Kingdoms, two Southern and Northern Dynasties have been opened Jins and Southern and Northern Dynasties. Currently, and 26 pieces of burial clothing wooden slips have been the scale of unearthed tombs of the Three Kingdoms, unearthed: In which 5 tombs and 6 wooden slips belong two Jins and Southern and Northern Dynasties through to the Three Kingdom, 5 tombs and 7 wooden slips (1 is archaeological excavations is quite small and the number black and while stone) belong to two Jin Dynasties, and of records slips of the “list of burial clothing” is small. 12 tombs and 13 wooden slips belong to the Northern and The unearthed areas scatter. Academic research on it is Southern Dynasties. From the geographical point of view, also in dispersion. This article introduces the 26 record these tombs are located in Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, slips of the list of burial clothing during that period of Gansu provinces, among which Gansu has the most with time from two aspects: The unearthing situation and the tombs spanning the longest time from Cao Wei “Qinglong research situation in order to provide research clues and fourth year” (AD 236) to Wu Liang sixteen States Zengzi materials for the further research of the development and fourth year and Linjia fifteen years (AD 403); Gansu also change from “Qian Ce” to the Sui and Tang paper list of has the largest number of tombs, a total of 15 and it also burial clothing unearthed in Tulufan and the sorting of unearthed the largest number of burial clothing wooden related literature. slips, a total of 18. 19 Copyright © Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture Overview of the Record Slips on the “List of Burial Clothing” During the Three Kingdoms, The Jin Dynasties and Southern and Northern Dynasties 1. OVERVIEW OF THE UNEARTHING 1.2 In the Period of two Jin Dynasties (5 Batches) SITUATION OF RECORD SLIPS OF THE a) Jiangxi Nanchang East Lake Yongwai Zheng Street “LIST OF BURIAL CLOTHING” Western Jin Dynasty Wu Ying tomb (I Piece). From the early 1950 till now, it has announced that In March and May 1974, a couple’s tomb in Jin 12 batches and 21 burial clothing tombs the Three Dynasty was cleaned up in Yongwai Zheng Street in East Kingdoms, two Jins and Southern and Northern Lake District in Nanchang, Jiangxi, in which there is a Dynasties have been unearthed and a total of 26 bamboos wooden slip of burial clothing. b) Jiangxi Nanchang Railway Station Eastern. and wooden slips have been unearthed. In that, there Jin Dynasty Lei Gai tomb (1 Piece) are 4 tombs belonging to the Three Kingdom: 1) Wuwei th In September 1997, 6 ancient tombs were found on the Three Kingdom Cao Wei “Qinglong 4 year” tomb; 2) northern side of the Nanchang Railway Station square, Nanchang Jiangxi “Dong Wu Gaorong Tomb”; 3) The in which M3 is a couple’s tomb and in the man’s coffin a second and third tombs of “Anhui Nanling County Ma wooden slip of burial clothing was found. Bridge Dong Wu Tomb”. There are 5 tombs belonging to c) Gansu Wuwei Hantan Po No.19 the Eastern Jin the two Jin Dynasties: 1) Jiangxi East Lake Yongzheng Dynasty tomb (2 Pieces). Wai Street Western Jin Dynasty Wu Ying tomb; 2) Jiangxi In July to September 1985, Gansu Provincial Institute Nanchang Railway Station in Eastern Jin Dynasty Lei of Archaeology found and cleaned up 28 tombs from Gai Tomb; 3) Gansu Wuwei Hantanpo No.19 the Eastern Western Jin to Five Liang period in Hantanpo in Wuwei, Jin Dynasty tomb; 4) Gansu Xinhua Town Eastern Jin/ in which M19 is a tomb belonging to the Eastern Jin and Qian Liang tomb; 5) Jin Shengping 5th Year the tomb of Qian Liang. 2 burial clothing slips were unearthed with the wife of Zhou Fang, Pan Shi in Changsha, Hunan (stone one in a woman’s coffin and another in a man’s. slips). There are 12 tombs belonging to the Northern and d) Wuwei Xinhua Town Eastern Jin/Qian Liang tomb (2 Southern Dynasties: 1) Gansu Yumen Jinjiliang Sixteen Pieces). Kingdoms tombs; 2) Gansu Gaotai County Luotuo City In October 1991, in Touba Village in Xinhua Town, 4 Qian Liang Hu Yunqian tomb; 3) Gansu Gaotai Luotuo wooden slips of Eastern Jin/Qian Liang were unearthed in City Qian Liang tombs; 4) Gansu Yumen Bijiatan Five the ancient tomb. There were two wooden slips belonging Liangs and Sixteen Kingdoms tombs, in which nine to “Shengping Twelfth Year” and two belonging to graves unearthed clothing slips. Now according to the “Shengping Thirteenth Year” and the content is burial time of the tombs, the general introductions of them are clothing. outlined below. e) Jin Shengping fifth Year the tomb of the wife of 1.1 In the Period of Three Kingdoms (3 Batches) Zhou Fang, Pan Shi in Changsha, Hunan (a black and a) A Wooden Slip in Wuwei Three Kingdom Cao Wei while stone slip). “Qinglong Fourth Year” (1 Piece). In 1954, in Beimen osmanthus garden Jin tombs in In April 1991, a wooden slip was unearthed in a cave Changsha, Hunan Province, a black and while stone burial in Hongya Zhiqu in Xinhua Town in Wuwei. In the slip, clothing slip was unearthed. the record of the time “Qingling Fourth Year” indicated it 1.3 In the Period of Southern and Northern a tomb in the period of Cao Wei in the Three Kingdoms. Dynasties (4 Batches) b) Nanchang Jiangxi Dong Wu Gaorong tomb (2 a) Gansu Yumen Jinjiliang Sixteen Kingdoms tombs (1 Pieces). Piece). In June 1979, in a tomb explored at the southern side From February to April 2009, Gansu Provincial of Yangming Road in Nanchang, Jiangxi, in the coffins of Institute of Archaeology cleaned up the Jinji ancient a man and a woman, a wooden slip of burial clothing in group tombs in Baituliang Village, Qingquan Twon, each coffin was unearthed and they have the similar size Yumen, Gansu. In M5, a burial clothing wooden slip was and shape. unearthed and another two broken slips were unearthed c) Thesecond and third tombs of Anhui Nanling as well. According to records such as “Jianxing Xi Eighth County Ma Bridge Dong Wu tomb (3 Pieces). Year” and “Shengping Sixth Year” in the simultaneously In November 1978, in Maqiao Commune in Nanling unearthed seal wood and wooden coffin bezels, they were County in Anhui, several ancient brick tombs were determined to be tombs of middle and later Qian Liang. unearthed. Archaeologists speculated these tombs dating b) Gaotai Luotuo City Qian Liang tombs (2 Pieces) . to Eastern Wu, the early Three Kingdoms. In the No.2 In June 2000, the Gaotai County Museum cleaned up coffin, a wooden square slip was unearthed. A wooden a Qian Liang tomb in the south of Luotuo City, and two square slip was unearthed inside and outside the No.3 wooden slips were unearthed. coffin, respectively recording the burial objects in the c) Gansu Gaotai County Luotuo City Qian Liang Hu coffin and in the tomb. Yunqiang tomb (1 Piece) . Copyright © Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture 20 LI Shichi; ZHANG Xiancheng (2015). Studies in Literature and Language, 11(5), 19-23 In June and July 2001, Gansu Provincial Jiangxi Provincial Museum (1974) published Jiangxi Archaeological Institute cleaned up the Luotuo city Nanchang Western Jin Tombs which firstly released the heritage and tomb area in Luotuo Town in Gaotai.