Excavated Documents

2026 No.3/ Volume 27 (Quarterly)

Sponsoring Institution: Zhongxi Book Company, Tsinghua University

Publisher: Zhongxi Book Company

ISSN: 2096-7365

CN: 31-2170/K

Publication Date: September 2026

CONTENTS

Additional Explanation of the Character Lei

                                                                       Yao Xuan (1)

Two Additional Notes on Issues Related to the Character Yuan

                                                                           Li Hui (8)

Argument on the Proto-form of the Character Zong

                                                             Xuan Jiancong (19)

A Reexamination of the Mai Zun Inscription and the Initial Enfeoffment of the State of Xing

                                                                         Su Hao (26)

The Doubts About the Authenticity of the Inscription on the Shuzi Gou Zhi

                                                                            Li Qi (33)

On the “Zhong Ruo Cai Gong” Dagger-Axe

                                                                     Han Ning (43)

Selected Examples of Combined Evidence and Anomalous Examples in Ancient Books and Excavated Manuscripts

                                                                       Ji Huilin (50)

A Microscopic Archaeological Study of the Tsinghua Rui Liang Fu Bi Manuscript

                                                               Jia Lianxiang (60)

Reconsidering the Diagrammatic Structure of the Tsinghua Wuji Manuscript

                                                              Ma Mingzong (77)

Three Notes on Characters and Words in the Tsinghua Wuji

                                                                   Zhang Yusi (89)

A Critical Study of Time Designations in the Qin and Han Periods

                                                                  Lü Chuanyi (97)

“Acting with a Certain Seal” in the Liye Qin Slips and Cross-County Official Document Transmission

                                                                   Wu Fangji (103)

Notes of the Tianhui Medical Bambooslips Maishu: Xiajing

                                                            Meng Yuelong (114)

A Study on “Ruo Lu” in the Han Dynasty

                                                                He Rongtao (122)

A New Study of the “Ordinance on Rewarding the Defeat and Surrender of the Xiongnu”

                                                                        Wu Xu (134)

On the Utilization of Tags in the Wuyi Square Eastern Han Wooden Slips and Tablets—With A Discussion on “Archiving” in the Handling of Documents

                                                         Kobayashi Bunji (142)

Philological Study on the Inscriptions of Yuanbao Mountain Cliff Tomb Ml from Santai, Sichuan

                                            Suo Dehao & Zhong Zhi (156)

Tian-Form Analogical Assimilation in Qin-Han Characters and the Revision of Bronze Mirror Inscriptions

                                                           Zhang Rongqin (164)

Consumption, Knowledge, and the Body in the Xiaochen Texts of the Tsinghua Manuscripts

                                                      Paul Nicholas Vogt (174)