大事纪年法并非始于楚人

The Way of Numbering the Years Using the Event Was not Created by Chu People

楚国有三种纪年方法,即序数纪年法、岁星纪年法和大事纪年法。大事纪年法较多见于楚简和铜器铭文,于是许多专家认为大事纪年法始于楚人。但根据西周青铜器铭文资料,西周早期就有以大事纪年的方式,因此大事纪年法并非始于楚人。齐国铜器铭文和陶文中也有不少大事纪年资料。楚国和齐国都继承了周人的大事纪年方法。

There are three kinds of ways of numbering the years in Chu state,which are ways ot using year of the reign of the king,Jupiter cycle and event.The way of numbering the years using the event were discoveried in the bamboo slips and bronze wares in Chu state.So many authors think this way of numbering the years was created by Chu people.But it was actualy invented in the Western Zhou Dynasty according to inscripptions on bronze wares.Chu state and Qi state only inherited the calendar of the Western Zhou Dynasty.