关于敦煌马圈湾汉简涉及西域战争的几个问题

Some Problems about the Western Region War in the Dunhuang Majuanwan Slips of Han Dynasty

敦煌马圈湾汉简的发现,为研究王莽西域战争提供了新的资料,简牍内容涉及方方面面,为深入真实地了解史实提供了丰富的材料,为研究相关历史打开了新的视野,证实了传世文献的记载,弥补了文献中的不足。利用这批简牍材料对涉及此次西域战争关键问题如:战争开始时间、王莽军失败的原因、联军组成情况以及《匈奴传》为何未有记载这场战争等方面进行探讨和考证很有意义。

The Dunhuang Majuanwan slips of Han dynasty provide new information about Wang Mang Western war;these slips cover all aspects of the war,and provide the wealth of materials for the study of relevant historical in-depth understanding of the real historical facts,which open up us new horizons,confirm the literature,and make up for deficiencies in the literature.So using these materials involving key issues is very significant,such as the starting time of the war,failure reasons of the Wang Mang＇s army,the composition of the coalition forces and the reasons why this event was not recorded in Huns Biography.