The ancient city of Jingzhou, Hubei Province, also known as "Jiangling", was once the famous capital of Chu State, and has witnessed historical changes for thousands of years. In the 80s of the 20th century, what kind of vivid history did the Zhangjiashan Han Jane unearthed here restore for the world? At 20:00 on March 31, the fourth issue of "Exploring China in Jian" will be broadcast on the CCTV Comprehensive Channel (CCTV-1) of the main station, revealing the Chinese story in the Zhangjiashan Han Jian. This episode of the program is the first time to focus on the Han Dynasty slips after Liye Qin Jian and Yunmeng Sleeping Tiger Di Qin Jian, and will lead the audience to explore the concept of governance and social life in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty under the pattern of "Han Cheng Qin System".
For the first time, the focus is on Han Dynasty slips
All-round interpretation of the "Han Cheng Qin system"
The first three episodes of "Exploring China" focus on Qin Jian in Liye and Qin Jian in Yunmeng Sleeping Tiger, starting from a small incision to tell the story of the small town under the county system of the Qin Dynasty and the huge and strict legal system, so that the audience can deeply feel the outstanding continuity, innovation, unity, inclusiveness and peace of Chinese civilization in the dynamic process of civilization integration and historical evolution.
The fourth episode of the program focuses on more than 2,000 Zhangjiashan Han Janes, including the large-scale Han Dynasty legal decree unearthed for the first time in China, which will help the audience further understand and recognize the continuity and development of the "Han Cheng Qin system". In the program, Li Junming, a researcher at the Center for Research and Protection of Unearthed Documents of Tsinghua University, Meng Man, a professor at the School of History and Culture of Minzu University of China, and Yang Bo, an associate researcher at the Institute of Ancient History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, will combine the original records of Zhangjiashan's Han Jian, such as "Two Years of Laws", "Book of Songs", "Sixteen Chapters of Han Law" and "Meritorious Orders", to interpret the legal provisions in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty in terms of law, politics, and economic systems, and reveal their rich connotations and far-reaching significance.
The Han Dynasty, which lasted for more than four centuries, was another important period in Chinese history after the Qin Dynasty. The excavation of the Han Jian in Zhangjiashan allows us to understand the profound impact of this great unified dynasty on the development of the political system and social structure by inheriting the Qin system when the world was first determined. As Li Junming, a researcher at the Center for the Research and Protection of Unearthed Documents at Tsinghua University, said: "Through the Zhangjiashan Han Jian, we can not only see the 'Han Dynasty inheriting the Qin system', comparing the laws of the Qin and Han dynasties, but also the institutional design of the early Han Dynasty, where the rulers implemented the policy of leniency and recuperation with the people, which promoted social progress." ”
Exclusive release of Wangjiazui Chu Jian's "Musical Score"
Interpret the "ancient health exercises" more than 2,000 years ago
As a first-hand information to explore the social situation in the early Western Han Dynasty, in addition to a large number of legal documents, there are also many long-lost classics such as "Arithmetic Book", one of the early Chinese mathematical works, "Quotation Book" and "Pulse Book", which are said to be Wu Zixu's art of war. The Book of Mathematics is known as "a collection of mathematical problems more than 2,000 years ago", and many vivid and interesting arithmetic problems in the book reflect the real scenes of the ancestors' labor and production. At the interview site of the program, Meng Man, a professor at the School of History and Culture of Minzu University of China, will take the audience to feel the wisdom essence of ancient Chinese mathematics by using a problem about textile efficiency.
Do you know what health care methods the ancients had? "Guidance" is a combination of breathing, exhalation, limb movement, and mind guidance in ancient China. In this program, experts will introduce the audience in detail the "eye guidance therapy" and "guidance health exercises" recorded in the earliest known guide monograph in China. At the same time, the real-life drama part of the program will also vividly explain the essentials of "guiding health exercises", and convey the longevity of "spring production, summer growth, autumn harvest, and winter storage".
The text written on the slips tells the details of the vast historical process, and the study of the slips has built a bridge across time and space for future generations to explore the Chinese system and civilization, as well as to verify the 5,000-year history of China.
From 2019 to the present, a large number of Warring States slips have been unearthed in Jingzhou City, Hubei Province, which is a major discovery in the archaeological community in recent years, and the restoration, sorting and research work of the slips have also attracted world attention. It is worth looking forward to the fact that Wang Mingqin, director of the Jingzhou Museum, will exclusively release the latest research results on these Warring States Slips in the program "Exploring China". According to Director Wang, in 2021, archaeologists found more than 3,200 Warring States slips in the Chu tomb of Wangjiazui Tomb, of which about 160 are likely to be recorded in the content of the "Music Sutra", one of the "Six Classics of the Warring States Period". Tentatively named "Musical Scores", these slips are mainly composed of heavenly stems and some simple symbols, containing rich rhythmic rhythms, and their excavation has allowed future generations to explore the splendid splendor of the ritual music civilization more than 2,000 years ago.
How does this program reproduce the development process from the rise to prosperity in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty? Lead the audience back to the historical scene under the pattern of "Han Cheng Qin System"? On March 31, at 20:00 on CCTV-1, the fourth issue of "Exploring China in Jian" invites you to step into the story scene of Han Jianli in Zhangjiashan and explore the cultural code in Jianli!