| 英文摘要 |
During the Western Han dynasty, a total of 986 fiefdoms were established. On average, 4.95 new feudal lords were established each year. Therefore imperial edicts granting lordships were frequently issued. The existent 42 imperial edicts concerning the granting of lordships are documented in the Book of Han. These include 73 named and 54 unnamed feudal lords. An inductive analysis of the writings in these imperial edicts found that the content generally contains two sections, namely the deeds worthy of granting lordship and the information concerning the fiefdom. Information concerning the fiefdom includes the title, name, and lordship of the person receiving the fiefdom, and the number of households and location of land under his control. We then compared this against the descriptions in the lordship grants to individual lords in the Book of Han, which showed that for five lords, their lordship grants contained more record than the imperial edict, and for five other lords the lordship grant is completely different from the imperial edict. We can thus state without doubt that the lordship grant documents are selective transcriptions, simplified statements, and revised writings of the deeds worthy of granting lordship. In addition, through comparing the imperial edicts against lordship grants in the Book of Han, we found that there are several instances of incompletely parsed sentences in the parsed version of Book of Han published by the Zhonghua Bookstore in Beijing. |
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