化大豆为黄金:以中国古代墓葬文献为例

Q2 Arts and Humanities
J. Wen
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东汉时期的《张叔经·族谱》(公元173年)证实,活着的人相信死人可以用大豆和瓜子(黄豆瓜子)在阴间纳税。直到发现了“太原有一个死人”(*太原有一个死人)这一碑文,人们才知道了这一点,它揭示了秦汉以前不为人知的一个信仰,即死人把大豆当作金子。我认为上述两种信仰之间有直接的联系:黄豆和瓜子在阴间被用作天然小金块的替代品,因为它们在形状和颜色上相似。此外,马王堆墓葬目录(qiance)中还记录了大量的大大豆形状的彩绘粘土球(dashu菽),间接地支持了这一解释。
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To Turn Soybeans into Gold: a Case Study of Mortuary Documents from Ancient China
The Eastern Han period tomb-quelling text of Zhang Shujing 張叔敬, which dates to 173 CE, confirms that living people believed the dead could use soybeans and melon seeds (huangdou guazi 黃豆瓜子) to pay taxes in the underworld. The knowledge of this only came to light with the discovery of the tablet Taiyuan Has a Dead Man (*Taiyuan you sizhe 泰原有死者), which reveals a previously unknown Qin-Han belief that the dead regarded soybeans as gold. I suggest a direct association between the above two beliefs: soybeans and melon seeds were used as substitutes for small natural gold nuggets to pay taxes in the underworld because of their resemblance in shape and color. Furthermore, a huge quantity of painted clay balls shaped like large soybeans (dashu 大菽) are recorded in the Mawangdui 馬王堆 tomb inventories (qiance 遣策), which indirectly supports this interpretation.
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