侯马、温县盟书年代考

On the Date of the Houma and Wenxian Oath Documents

关于侯马盟书与温县盟书的年代,学术界过去主要有两种意见。关于侯马盟书之内容,或认为反映赵简子时事,当晋定公时期;或认为反映赵桓子时事,当晋幽公时期。两者存数十年之悬隔。

The present paper restudies the date of the Houma and Wenxian oath documents. Based on the evidence that in the two batches of documents the same persons bear different positions and the duke Jing of the Jin is called divinity, the author believes the documents to be reflections of the oath activities of the two antagonistic sides in the same event. The Houma oath documents are relics of the Zhao viscount Huan's struggling for the ruler's throne and expelling the Zhao marquis Xian, while the Wenxian oath documents are material remains of the latter's recapturing the power. The author corrects the erroneous record of the Jin and Zhao pedigrees in the Historical Records 《史记》 and assigns the former documents to the 12th year of the Jin duke Aiyi's reign (434 BC) and the latter ones to the 15th year (431BC).