《秦简牍合集》（一）睡虎地竹简

Collected Qin Slips I: the Shuihudi bamboo slips

Excavated texts 简牍 · 256 BC · 周赧王五十九年

Introduction

The entry for 256 BC in the Chronicle of the Shuihudi slips, which counts the year as the fifty-first of King Zhaoxiang of Qin.

Text and Translation

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

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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：五十一年，攻陽城。

Chronicle¹: In the fifty-first year², attacked Yangcheng.

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Places

Yangcheng 阳城

a Han town south-east of Luoyang, at modern Gaocheng, Dengfeng, Henan.

Notes

¹ Chronicle

葉書: the year-by-year record on the bamboo slips of Shuihudi tomb 11, Yunmeng, Hubei, which notes Qin's campaigns beside the events of the tomb occupant's family. It was published in 1978 under the editors' title 编年记; the Collected Qin Slips gives it the title written on the slips themselves, 葉書.

² fifty-first year

The fifty-first year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, 256 BC. The subject, Qin, is not expressed; the Basic Annals of Qin record the taking of Yangcheng under the same year.