《长沙五一广场东汉简》的“元遗产案”识微

The Observation and Discussion on the Yuan Heritage Case in The Excavated Wuyi Guangchang Documents

《长沙五一广场东汉简》中的“元”遗产案的人物关系较为复杂。“元”是一位籍贯临湘但旅居泉陵的商人,在去苍梧做买卖时去世,后来被运回临湘举行葬礼。“元”的正妻“何”检录分配财产,而“元”的庶妻“脩”带着其女儿“珠”回到泉陵生活了10多年后,可能因生活所迫,母女俩来到临湘争取权益。解读“元”遗产案牵涉的家庭及财产管理关系,既帮助我们深入了解东汉前中期商人家庭的生活情况以及家庭内女性的姓氏记录变化,还可以看出个体家庭中的婚姻关系与扩大家庭的宗法关系构成的紧张和矛盾,这影响到家庭生活的方方面面。

The characters’ relationship in the Yuan heritage case inThe Excavated Wuyi Guangchang Documentsis complicated. Yuan is a merchant from Linxiang, but living in Quanling, dying while going to Cangwu on business, and later transported back to Linxiang for a funeral. Yuan’s wife checks and distributes the property,and Yuan’s concubine returns to Quanling with her daughter more than ten years later. Probably because of the pressure of life, Yuan’s concubine and her daughter comes to Linxiang to fight for their rights and interests.Interpreting the family and property relationships involved in the Yuan inheritance case can not only help us to deeply understand the living conditions of merchant families in the early and middle periods of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the changes in the surname records of women in the family, but also can see the tension and contradiction between the marriage relationship in family and the patriarchal relationship in the expanded family,which affects all aspects of family life.