▲ Jian Mu excavated from Liu He's tomb
More than 5,200 pieces of Jian Mu have been unearthed from the tomb of Liu He at the site of the Marquis of Haixia in the Han Dynasty in Nanchang
According to Yang Bo, an associate researcher at the Institute of Ancient History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, which was excavated so far, this is the first physical edict of the Western Han Dynasty excavated so far, which records the history of the removal of the state after Liu He's death
▲The picture shows the remnants of the tomb that have just been excavated
Courtesy of Jiangxi Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
The edict was written in the shape of a han one foot (about 23 centimeters today) and the writing format was two (vertical) lines of writing for the lishu, which was the standard "exoneration" edict
The process of the edict of the state is proposed by local officials to become the highest will to convey to the local level after the consent of the emperor of the central official conference, with a clear written process and accurate forwarding records, which basically constructs a relatively complete han Dynasty high-level document writing process and transmission system
▲After preliminary cleaning and repair
Partially residual infrared scan photograph
Yang Bo introduced that the edict of the state provided the historical facts of Liu He and his family, the basic situation of the Kingdom of Changyi and the Marquis of Haiyi Liu He "died in September" The Kingdom of Changyi", "Heliu County thought that the country "The Marquis of Haixia "Counted The Waters, Droughts and Disasters", etc. are all histories that can be filled in the lack of records in the Book of Han Researchers deduce that Liu He died in the "September Yiwei", that is, the first eight days of September in 59 BC, the calendar used at that time was the "Taichu Calendar" newly created by Emperor Wu Dynasty.
The edict also clearly records that after Liu He's death, Yuzhang Taishou Liao was the emperor of The Marquis of Haixia's last letter, "Dahong Chu Shangzi Chong = Guo = Illness and Death Fu Shangzi Feng = Relatives = Compound Illness and Death is Heavenly Extinction" (Note: "= "For the Heavy Wen Number") can be corroborated with the contents of the "Hanshu Wuzi Biography" and combined with the time when the "Edict of the Removal of the State" was issued to Yuzhang County, "October Jiashen (XVII)" can be inferred that the time interval between the death of Liu He and his two sons Liu Chongguo and Liu Fengqin to the time when the Marquis of Haixia was removed from the country was less than forty days