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Chunqiu shiyu
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<p> <i>Chunqiu shiyu</i> (<a href="/facts/Traditional_Chinese_characters/bBFLkuz7">Chinese</a>: 春秋事語; <a href="/facts/Pinyin/pUwjfMXg">pinyin</a>: <i>Chūnqiū Shìyǔ</i>) is an <a href="/facts/List_of_early_Chinese_texts/H0A7GnFc">early Chinese text</a> written on <a href="/facts/Silk/XhxPpvvS">silk</a> which was unearthed in 1973 from the Tomb no. 3 (dated 168 BCE) at the <a href="/facts/Mawangdui/8R9nfsx8">Mawangdui Han tombs site</a> in <a href="/facts/Changsha/35jaRSAN">Changsha</a>, <a href="/facts/Hunan/1lbDstf7">Hunan</a>, China. The tomb was that of a young man, presumed to be a relative and perhaps the son of Lì Cāng (利蒼), who was the chancellor of the Kingdom of Changsha and first Marquis of Dài (軚). </p><p>The manuscript was unearthed in 1973 along with a large number of other documents on silk and bamboo slips, including the <i><a href="/facts/Yijing/jfEBTfKo">Yijing</a></i> and <i><a href="/facts/Laozi/H5PsnoQG">Laozi</a></i>, as well as military, medical, and astronomical manuscripts. Chūnqiū shìyǔ records historical events from the <a href="/facts/Spring_and_Autumn_period/H8klKw2P">Spring and Autumn period</a> and partially preserves over 2000 characters. </p><p>The first half of the name of the document refers to the period covered, Chūnqiū 春秋, meaning Spring and Autumn, while the second half of the title, shìyǔ (事语), is a historiographer's narrative, one type of the ‘yǔ’ (語) narrative genre of the period. </p><p>The calligraphy of the document is similar to that on some bamboo books, a form transitional between the Qin <a href="/facts/Seal_script/rmhgUnQa">seal script</a> of the <a href="/facts/Eastern_Zhou/jF2TIGmb">Eastern Zhou</a> and <a href="/facts/Qin_dynasty/TeBU8Nh3">Qin dynasty</a> periods, and the <a href="/facts/Clerical_script/Cxddv58R">clerical script</a> of the <a href="/facts/Han_dynasty/hanfxS9D">Han dynasty</a>. This, plus the fact that it does not treat as taboo the name of the Han dynasty founder <a href="/facts/Emperor_Gaozu_of_Han/nNvXYAt3">Liu Bang</a>, means that it was probably produced around the mid to late 3rd century BCE, before Liu took the throne in 202 BCE. </p>