肩水金關漢簡=Han dynasty wooden slips from Jianshuijinguan; 中國歷譜=Chinese calendar; 紀年簡=slips bearing dates; 月朔簡=slips bearing the first day of each month; 年代考釋=chronological study
In 2013 the Han Dynasty Wooden Slips from Jianshuijinguan( Ⅲ) was published. This paper presents a chronological study on 13 calendar slips, 6 slips bearing dates, and 13 slips showing the first day of each month. This paper concludes that the wooden slips numbered T26:178 and T26:218 belong to the same calendar dated from the sixth year of the Yuanfeng era(75 BCE); T30:1, 2 and T30:218 slips date back to the first year of the Yuankang era(65 BCE) and were written by the same person; T26:87 should date back to the first year of the Heping era(28 BCE), but was misinterpreted as the fifth year of the Heping era(24BCE). This paper focuses on a special rectangular calendar( T29:117A, 55 BCE) and on the division of"dog days" in the Han dynasty-in this way, the specific dates of half of the slips bearing the first day of each month can be determined.
