《秦简牍合集》（一）睡虎地竹简

Collected Qin Slips I: the Shuihudi bamboo slips

Excavated texts 简牍 · 251 BC · 秦昭襄王五十六年

Introduction

The entry for 251 BC in the Chronicle of the Shuihudi slips: the death of King Zhaoxiang and the birth of Su.

Text and Translation

§1 《秦简牍合集》（一）睡虎地竹简Collected Qin Slips I: the Shuihudi bamboo slips

Text: Chinese source

Text: English Translation

Annotations

[§1] 《秦简牍合集》（一）睡虎地竹简

[§1] Collected Qin Slips I: the Shuihudi bamboo slips

葉書：五十六年，後九月，昭死。正月，遬產。

Chronicle: In the fifty-sixth year¹, in the intercalary month after September², Zhao³ died. In January, Su was born.

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Persons

King Zhaoxiang of Qin 秦昭襄王

King of Qin, reigned 306–251 BC; personal name Ji 稷. Called King Zhao in the Basic Annals of Zhou and King Zhaoxiang in the Basic Annals of Qin.

Su 遬

Younger brother of Xi 喜, the occupant of Shuihudi tomb 11, whose family's births and deaths the Chronicle records; born in 251 BC. The graph is also transcribed 速.

Notes

¹ fifty-sixth year

The fifty-sixth year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, 251 BC.

² intercalary

後九月, "the later ninth month": the intercalary month, which the Qin calendar added at the end of the year after the ninth month. The Qin year began with the tenth month, so the January of the next notice falls earlier in the same year.

³ Zhao

昭: King Zhaoxiang of Qin; the Basic Annals put his death in the autumn of the year.