走马楼吴简中的“四品布”

“The Fourth Grade Cloth” in the Wu Bamboo Slips from Zoumalou

走马楼吴简中所见的'品布'并非布的具体种类,而是按户品征收的调布。'四品布'即按上品、中品、下品及下品之下四等征收的调布,因下品之下不应调,'四品布'与'三品布'并无本质的区别。'三品布'与'四品布'的并存,反映了汉晋之际赋调征收方式向九品混通发展的趋势。

The“grade of cloth”found in the Wu bamboo slips from Zoumalou does not refer to any specific kind of cloth.Instead,it refers to the cloth used as taxes levied on each household.“Four grades of cloth”stand for the upper grade,middle grade,lower grade and below-lower grade cloth levied.As below-lower grade cloth was not levied,“the fourth grade cloth”and“the third grade cloth”basically had no difference.The coexistence of“the third grade cloth”and“the fourth grade cloth”reflects the development trend of the nine-grade mixed tax-levy system during the transition from the Han dynasty to the Jin dynasty.