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Overview
Key data
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Excavated | 1986, Fangmatan tomb 1, Tianshui, Gansu |
| Period | Late Warring States to Qin |
| Contents | Day books A and B, and wooden maps |
| Character | Includes divination by stars and by pitch, complementing the Shuihudi day book |
| Publication | The Tianshui Fangmatan Qin Slips |
Excavation and nature
Tomb 1 at Fangmatan yielded more than four hundred slips, among them day books in two versions, A and B, and seven wooden maps.
The day book is of the same kind as Shuihudi’s, differing in what each treats at length.
Astral and pitch divination
One part of the Fangmatan day book deals with divination by stars and by the twelve pitch standards, matching the twelve months with the sexagenary cycle.
This is sparse in the Shuihudi day book and is a feature of Fangmatan.
The wooden maps from the same tomb are among the earliest surviving measured maps of China and belong to the geographical knowledge of the time.
Value
Day books have been found repeatedly in tombs from the Warring States through Qin and Han, showing that they were current books, each region with its own version.
Fangmatan set beside Shuihudi shows the genre in use in the northwest and the south at the same time.
Full text
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