『龍崗秦簡』 第1～10簡 연구

Abstract

This study presents the translation of the first to tenth Longgang Qin Bamboo Strips into Korean based on the findings of preceding studies, along with annotations on the issues worthy of further discussion and related considerations. Longgang Qin Bamboo Strips 1 to 10 contain records about laws related to palace gardens, which can be summarized as follows. A palace garden was a place where livestock and plants belonging to the imperial family were raised and managed, and access by the general public to the garden was prohibited. Therefore, actions such as trespassing on a palace garden through the surrounding sewers, entering it without a valid pass, or forging and borrowing such a pass were considered serious crimes and sentenced to heavy punishments including cutting off the left foot. In addition, all those who needed to enter a palace garden for public affairs had to send an official letter to the competent departments of prefectural and provincial government offices to request entrance to the garden, and the documents sent to these offices must be escalated to higher level agencies. When one enters a palace garden for document delivery or public affairs, he would go through a verification process of the relevant documents, and was required to wear a plaque marked “入司馬門久”‘ while in the garden. In this way, access by the general public to palace gardens was managed in a very strict and restrictive manner. This study analyzed the letters and vocabulary used in Longgang Qin Bamboo Strips by taking full advantage of Qin character documents unearthed after the discovery of Longgang Qin Bamboo Strips such as Liye Qin Bamboo Strips and Qin Bamboo Strips Collected in Yuelu Academy. By collecting and comparing a large amount of Qin character forms, this study also performed a meaningful analysis on the characters that could not be clearly traced back in Longgang Qin Bamboo Strips or pairs of the characters that were difficult to interpret due to similar forms such as 池 (chí) and 事 (shì) in Strip 1, 闌 (lán) in Strip 2, 襲 (xí) and 人 (rén) and 入 (rù) in Strip 4, 佩 (pèi) in Strip 5, 傳 (chuán) in Strip 9, and 作 (zuò) in Strip 10. Based on the appearance pattern of “黔首” (qiánshǒu) in the strips, this study also found a clue to dating the creation of these strips. In addition, it was confirmed that the passages “襲人符傳” (xírénfúzhuàn) and “入門衛木久” (rùménwèimùjiǔ) contained in Longgang Qin Bamboo Strips are also included in Zhangjiashang Han Bamboo Strips. This serves as a good example showing that the Han Dynasty inherited the legal system of the Qin Dynasty. It is expected that this study will be followed by continuous annotation work and studies on Longgang Qin Bamboo Strips and more in-depth research on the strips will be conducted in the future.