The bamboo slips of sacrificial-offering album from Baoshan Tomb No. 2 in Jingmen, Hubei Province were put into distinct tomb chambers separately. The second character of the second division (Nos. 265 and 266) which w...The bamboo slips of sacrificial-offering album from Baoshan Tomb No. 2 in Jingmen, Hubei Province were put into distinct tomb chambers separately. The second character of the second division (Nos. 265 and 266) which was interpreted as Zhao兆 by the staffs of the bamboo slip recovering group should be interpreted as Mao卯. The suggestion that the terms of Damao大卯 should be read as Dapao大庖 is convincing, and the vessels of Dapao referred to the utensils handled by the cooks in the kitchen. According to our regulation of the order of the bamboo slips and proposal of recovering the disconnected pieces, the fourth division (Nos.259 to 264) should be constituted into four slips, and the order of them is Nos. 259, 263/264, 260-1/262 and 261/260-2 (/means that the front and rear portions of the slips that can be constituted).展开更多
文摘The bamboo slips of sacrificial-offering album from Baoshan Tomb No. 2 in Jingmen, Hubei Province were put into distinct tomb chambers separately. The second character of the second division (Nos. 265 and 266) which was interpreted as Zhao兆 by the staffs of the bamboo slip recovering group should be interpreted as Mao卯. The suggestion that the terms of Damao大卯 should be read as Dapao大庖 is convincing, and the vessels of Dapao referred to the utensils handled by the cooks in the kitchen. According to our regulation of the order of the bamboo slips and proposal of recovering the disconnected pieces, the fourth division (Nos.259 to 264) should be constituted into four slips, and the order of them is Nos. 259, 263/264, 260-1/262 and 261/260-2 (/means that the front and rear portions of the slips that can be constituted).
