西周列王纪年的构拟——宣王元年即BC826年方案

A New Reconstruction of the Regnal Years of Western Zhou Kings: A Proposal that Marks 826 BCE as the First Regnal Year of King Xuan

本文以西周金文和少量文献记载的历日为资料,以既生霸约等于初二到十四、既望约等于十五到二十五、既死霸约等于二十五到下月一日的月相说;以初吉约等于数九的假说,以青铜器类型学成果为基础构拟了周代自武王到平王的纪年。其中,最重要的一点是以公元前826年(而不是公认的公元前827年)为宣王元年,这一点能够得到古本《竹书纪年》的支持。

This paper presents a new reconstruction of the regnal years of Western Zhou Kings(from King Wu to King Ping)based on the following sets of data and assumptions:bronze inscriptions and a few records about the calendrical dates,the new assumption on the chronological timespan represented by key terms from bronze inscriptions,such as jishengba(from the second to the fourteen day in a lunar month),jiwang(from the fifteen to the twenty-fifth day in a lunar month),jisiba(from the twenty-fifth to the first day of the next lunar month),my latest research on chuji(which is equivalent to shujiu),and bronze typology.Most importantly,I argue that the first regnal year of King Xuan should be 826 BCE,instead of the conventional date which was set at 827 BCE.My proposal is also supported by the transmitted text the Bamboo Annals.