一篇可能失传的经典:《摄命》

A Possible Lost Classic:The“She ming”,or“Command to She”

《清华大学藏战国竹书(捌)》中收录了一篇整理者题为《摄命》的竹书,整理者认为该篇竹书即是古文《尚书•冏命》篇的原作。本文旨在对此论点进行评估,并通篇翻译全文。在此基础上,本文探讨了该篇竹书对现有西周史研究可能产生的史学影响,以及该篇竹书从成篇(可能早在公元前9世纪)到抄成(约公元前4世纪)的实际流传过程。

Volume 8 of Tsinghua bamboo manuscripts contains a manuscript entitled by the editors"She ming摄命"("Command to She"),which they argue is the original version of the ancient-script"Jiong ming 冏命"("Command to Jiong")chapter of the Shangshu 尚书.I review the evidence for this and further provide a full translation of the text.I also consider possible implications of the "She ming"for Western Zhou history,and how the text may have been transmitted from the time of its original composition,perhaps in the ninth century BCE,to the time that the Tsinghua manuscript was copied,probably in the fourth century BCE.