The Variorum Of Bamboo And Wood Manuscripts Of Han Dynasty Tombs Unearthed At Yinwan

At the end of February,1993,the local farmers of Yinwan countrysideof Hotsprings town of Donghai county in Jiangsu province discovered agroup of tombs in kaolin accidentally when they took clay.After reportingto the competent departments in charge of the local cultural relics and g-etteing approval of related departments, the archaeology members of th-e Museum of Lianyungang and the Museum of Donghai explored and de-tected them.There are numbers of important bamboo and wooden slips i-n tomb numbered M1,M2.They can be divided into “administrative docu-ments”,”divination documents”,”private documents”,such as "jibu","donghaij-unliyuanshezhibu","donghaijunxiaxiazhanglimingjibu","donghaijunbuzaiguanw-eidaoshuzhemingjibu",more than20kinds of literature.After finishing stady the bamboo and wood manuscripts by the expert-s of Lianyungang Museum and other three units,they published the” Ba-mboo and Wood Manuscripts of Han Dynasty Tombs Unearthed at Yinwan” which caused many scholars to stady. Research works got a sharp i-ncrease during years after this book published. But in recent years theresearch heat is reducing, and also there are still many problems unsolv-ed.This paper is written on the base of "Bamboo and Wood Manuscriptsof Han Dynasty Tombs Unearthed at Yinwan” book,and gathers differentarguments.For the different opinions of scholars,we make a reasonablechoice.We hope that this works could provide some help for the further r-esearch.