沪简四《柬大王泊旱》补释

The Supplementary Explanation of Shanghai Museum Strips, Book Four, Jian Dawang Bohan(《沪简四〈柬大王泊旱〉》)

上博藏楚简《柬大王泊旱》中有“病”“■”“乘”“表”“■”诸字,整理者以为柬大王患有疥病,学者也多从训疾病说。考察全篇简文,其应当是在讲述如何求雨除旱问题,与疥疮、疾病无关。简文中的“病”为“疲惫”义,“乘”或可训“逾越”,“表”学者读“孚”可从,“■”可从读“懆”训“忧”说,“■”或可读“沮”训“止”。

There are several character forms such as bing(病),zao(■),sheng(乘),biao(表),chai(■)in Chu Bamboo Strips,Jian Dawang Bohan(《柬大王泊旱》)collected by Shanghai Museum,scholars who unscrambled the content thought it recorded the king Jian(柬)affected the disease of scabies,and many other scholars also hold the same viewpoint.By investigating the full text of those bamboo strips,this paper argues that the content should be telling about praying for rain and getting rid of drought,not related with scabies and disease,the bing(病)of the text means tired,sheng(乘)might be annotated as exceeding,biao(表)read as biao孚by scholars could be accepted,and the viewpoint about zao(■)read as zao懆and annotated as anxious could also be accepted,while chai(■)might be read as沮and annotated as stop.