Tagesarchive: 31. Oktober 2025

在湖北武汉江夏丁家咀与荆州江陵望山，两批楚简出土地点相隔百里，却都写下了相同的心愿：愿神听见，愿命延长。一方是为“亲父”所设的家祭文书，一方是贵族悼固写给五位先王的求问书信。当它们被同时读起，像两封从战国寄出的信，一封写给家族祖灵，一封写给历史长河，而我们，是两千年后，在信箱前拆信的后人。In Wuhan’s Jiangxia (Dingjiazui) and Jingzhou’s Jiangling (Wangshan) in Hubei, two sets of Chu bamboo slips were unearthed, separated by a hundred li of land, yet echoing the same wish: May the spirits hear, may life be prolonged. One was a private prayer to a “dear father”; the other, a formal petition to five ancestral kings. Read together, they feel like two letters sent from the Warring States era — one addressed to a family spirit, the other to the long river of history. And we, two thousand years later, are the descendants standing before the mailbox, opening them one by one.