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无骨论点补充(以及辨析)一

Ivar the Boneless' commentary and analysis I

Shiji 史记 · 249 BC · 秦庄襄王元年


Introduction

Ivar the Boneless' commentary on the year: Marquis Chunping as Chancellor of State of Zhao, from the inscribed blades of the seventeenth year.


Text and Translation

Text: Chinese source

Text: English Translation

Annotations

[§6] 无骨论点补充(以及辨析)一

[§6] Ivar the Boneless' commentary and analysis I

春平侯担任赵相邦。

Marquis Chunping served as Chancellor of State of Zhao.

辨析:我國曾出土多件春平侯鈹,其中十件銘文刻“十七年,相邦春平侯”。據學者推斷,“十七年”是已知最早的年份,但春平侯何時開始擔任相邦,史書未載,且,趙國相邦應不止一人。

Analysis: A number of pi blades of Marquis Chunping have been excavated in China, ten of them inscribed "seventeenth year1, Chancellor of State Marquis Chunping". Scholars infer that the "seventeenth year" is the earliest year known, but when Marquis Chunping began to serve as Chancellor of State the histories do not record; and moreover Zhao's Chancellors of State were presumably more than one.

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Terms

Chancellor of State / 相邦n. the title as written in Warring States inscriptions; Han texts write 相国, avoiding the name of Gaozu, Liu Bang.
pi blade / 鈹n. a straight double-edged blade mounted on a long haft, often inscribed with the year and the officials who oversaw its making.

Persons

Marquis Chunping 春平侯Chancellor of State of Zhao, known from the inscriptions on excavated pi blades; the Hereditary House of Zhao names him Lord Chunping 春平君.

Places

Zhao 赵the state of Zhao, with its capital at Handan, Hebei; one of the three states formed from Jin.

Notes

1 seventeenth year十七年: taken as the seventeenth year of King Xiaocheng of Zhao, 249 BC, which is why the notice stands under this year.