The Study On Han's Private Documents Written On Bamboo Slips Or Wooden Tablets

Documents written on bamboo slips or wooden tablets refer to the official and private documents written on the bamboo or wooden carrier before paper had been invent and universally used in the ancient days of our country. Han' s documents written on bamboo slips or wooden tablets that we have seen amount to sixty thousand, consisting of great quantity of official documents and specified amount of private documents. In the past dozens of years, the elder learners had laid more emphasis on the study of Han' s official documents. But, except that deed and funeral documents had been somewhat referred to, other sort of private documents had always been overlooked. Even if they were talked about, only several words. Together with official documents, private documents is also a necessary means people employed when dealing with official and private affairs in the actual life. And private documents are the real record of the social life especially the folks' life of that time. They reflect the original appearance of folks' life exactly. But up till now, I hasn' t yet caught sight of any specialized writing on the Han' s private documents written on bamboo slips or wooden tablets within the scope my eyes can reach. That is also the reason why I attempt to elaborate on this subject.Private documents are messages that take shape in a family or a clan' s living and manufacturing process, reflecting the family or the family members' action. Private documents in the ancient days of our country were firstly written on the bones, secondly on the bronze, thirdly on the bamboo slips and wooden tablets according to the carrier before paper had been invent and universally used. Han' s especially West Han' s private documents written on bamboo slips or wooden tablets are particularly important in the history of private documents. Here, I try to make study of Han' s private documents written on bamboo slips or wooden tablets with the material published in attempt to sorting out the general condition of Han' s private documents written on bamboo slips or wooden tablets.The thesis, first, conducts full- view scanning onto Han' s private documents written on bamboo slips or wooden tablets and divides them into six sorts with examples identified one by one of each sort. Then, form the view of carrier and history the thesis makes an analysis of and details the features of development of Han' s private documents written on bamboo slips or wooden tablets. Finally, the thesis elaborates on several respects of social life in Han Dynasty reflected by Han' s private documents written on bamboo slips or wooden tablets.The first part of the thesis deals with the sorts and contents of Han' s private documents written on bamboo slips or wooden tablets. The first sort, private letters, refer to letters transmitted between family members or friends. The second sort, private deed, refer to deeds signed by people on behalf of themselves. All the deeds in Han' s private documents written on bamboo slips or wooden tablets are related to economy, so the private deeds here merely belong to an unadulterated economic category. They can be divided into three branches. First, wealth' s transmission, which can also be parted into deeds of clothing business, deeds of soil business and deeds of loaning. Second, the deeds of business goes into partnership the ration. Third, deeds of will. The third sort, private accounts, which consist of family' s money account and business cooperation account. The forth sort, funeral documents, which refer to documents produced and used in the ceremony of treating the dead and in the funeral arrangement. They can be sorted into three branches, that is presentation documents including the detailed accounts of presents given by others and things to be buried arranged by family, documents informing the earth, documents informing the deity. The fifth sort, documents used to inform others of someone' s name, identification and other information like individual cards when one is willing to visit other people. The...