Excavated Documents

2025 No.4 / Volume 24 (Quarterly)

Sponsoring Institution: Zhongxi Book Company, Tsinghua University

Publisher: Zhongxi Book Company

ISSN: 2096-7365

CN: 31-2170/K

Publication Date: December 2025

CONTENTS

A Comprehensive Study of Equine Anatomy Terms Found in the Tsinghua University Horse Classic Texts

Jia Lianxiang (1)

The Tsinghua Yushu Manuscript and the Ancient Skill of Horse Driving

Shi Xiaoli (18)

A Preliminary Study of the Xiangxiang Sanyanjing Bamboo Slip Documents

Dong Yuhang (24)

A Study on the Chronological Calendar of the Xiangxiang Sanyanjing Chu Bamboo Slips

Yang Xianyun (30)

A Study on the Characters and Words of the Real Estate Documents from the Bamboo Slips from Xiangxiang, Hunan

Cao Yuyang (36)

The Politics of Selection: A Study of the King’s Order A Bi B Pattern in Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscriptions

Xin Yue (43)

Analysis of the “Eight Armies of Yin” and “Eight Armies of Chengzhou” in Bronze Inscriptions—A Discussion on the Hypothesis of the Relocation of the “Eight Armies” in the Western Zhou Dynasty

Wang Xudong (52)

Discussion of the so-called Yong qi based on Zuoee Ban Yuan and Li Ju Zun

Li Juchuang (61)

Addendum to the Argument on King Yan Xiao’s Personal Name “Yu”

Yang Shuo (74)

Preliminary Insights into the Newly Discovered Eastern Zhou Dynasty Written Materials from the Ancient City of Yongliang in Yuzhou

Chen Qinlong (81)

Revisiting the Reconstruction of the Middle Chinese Initial ɕ- Through Variants in the Anda Shijing Manuscript

Weng Linjia (97)

An Analysis of the Origins of Li Gu Ding

Wang Botao (104)

The Official Service Record of Feng Quji and the Mystery of the Succession of Qin’s Second Emperor

Chen Ming (113)

Three Emendations and Additions to Western Han Bone Tag Inscriptions

Hu Mengqiang (122)

Collation and Emendation of the Xuanquan Han Dynasty Wooden Medical Slips

Yang Yaowen (128)

A Study on the Relationship between Hexagram and Yao Symbols and the Thinking behind Selecting Symbols in the Haihun Han Manuscript Bu Xing

Yi Xiao (136)

Study of the Character Chou in the Clothes Inventory Excavated from the Eastern Wu Tomb in Nanling, Anhui

Li Yuping & Liu Chun (148)

A Self-Reflexive Praxis: Changing Attitudes towards Manuscript and Text in Early China

Rens Krijgsman (154)