包山楚简释地十则

On Some Geographic Problems Related with the Inscribed Bamboo slips of the Chu Kingdom at Baoshan

1987年1月在湖北荆门发掘包山二号楚墓,出土了一大批竹简,是近年来楚文化考古工作的重大收获。对于这批竹简,报告整理者作了较全面的释文和考释,但由于简文数量大、内容复杂、涉及面广,有些问题还可以进一步深入探讨,这里仅就简文所涉及的部分政治地理问题谈些个人的看法。

The inscribed bamboo slips unearthed from Tomb 2 at Baoshan. Jingmen, Hubei in January of 1987 are not only impressive for their huge amount but also for their rich contents. This essay presents itself as an appnoach to some political and geographic problems arising from the slips. According to the author, the character 復 in the slips is a place located somewhere at the Great Fu mountain in the northwest of modem Tongbai county or old Fuyang. 胡阳 refers to the 蓼State in the south of the Nanyang Basin,or the modern Huyang Township some 40 Km south of the county seat of Tanghe. 成阳 refers to the Chengyang County of the Runan Prefecture of the Han dynasty,which is exactly the Chuwangcheng site 25 km north of Xinyang city,Henan. (尚阝) lies in the northwest of modern Suiping county. 染 Refers to a county under the same name of the Henan prefecture in the Han dynasty,some 40 km southwest of the county seat of modern Linru, Henan.阳翟 is a place located in modern Yuxian county of Henan.(鬲阝) is a feoff of the Chu State within modern Xincai county. A state established by the aliens from the north, 芙 is located at modern Fuyang city, Anhui province. The ancient Cai Kingdom, Cai county of the Chu Kingdom and the Shangcai county of the Han-Jin period should be located at modern county seat of Shangcai.