An Annotated Collection Of The Unearthed Bamboo Slips And Silks For The Literature Of Prayers

The literature of prayers refers to text of a dialogue in which prayers communicates directly with the spirits and gods,the purpose of dialogue is to hope that the spirits and gods could fulfill prayers’ wish,such as recover from illness,harvest from farming,safely from travel,and threat the spirits to stay away from illness etc.The research of this paper is the unearthed bamboo slips and silks of prayers.The unearthed literature included in this paper,predominate on the unearthed bamboo slips and silks of the Warring States period,Qin and Han Dynasties,and also included in a piece of jade slips which was called Qin Yin jade slips.The paper is divided into four parts:Introduction,Annotated Collection,The characteristic of literary style of the literature of prayers and Reference.The introduction divided into three parts:Part Ⅰ include in How to define the literature of prayers,Prayer words from ancient documents,and the relationship between Prayer words and Bu Shi Ji Dao bamboo slips.Part Ⅱinclude in the introduction of the unearthed literature in this paper and Research review.Part Ⅲ include in Research methods and Significance.The compilations and annotations of Prayer words is the main part of this paper,which combs the Explanations,Annotations,Translations and Additional explanations.According to content of Prayer words,it is divided into four parts:Disease,Travel,Farm and Other.The content of Disease combs praying for illness and Zhu You prescription.The content of Travel combs the situation of travel immediately and praying before travel.The content of farming combs praying for horse and God of agriculture,rearing silkworm and catch mouse.Other prayer words have two kinds content:One the other is some prayer words include kinds of different content,One another is some prayer words too few which are not more than three to list as separate part.The third part is discussing the characteristic of literary style of the literature of prayers,and summarize all the characteristic.The fourth part is reference for this paper.