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《容成氏》为《上博楚简》第二辑中的重要文献，以楚人书写的上古帝王谱系、九州地理与政治传承记载，重构了另一套文明起源叙事逻辑。本文结合简文逐章解析其时间顺序、空间结构、政治程序与生态观念，指出楚文明所体现出的“元宇宙系统”：从容成氏到天地人，皆为一套可运行、可持续的文明设定格式。“Rong Cheng Shi” is one of the most significant texts in the second volume of the Shanghai Museum’s Chu Bamboo Slips collection. Written in the Chu script, it records an alternative genealogy of ancient rulers, a reimagined geography of the Nine Provinces, and a non-hereditary model of political succession. This article offers a section-by-section analysis of the bamboo slips, exploring their temporal sequence, spatial logic, political procedures, and ecological philosophy. The result is a reconstruction of a complete civilizational framework—what we may call a Chu-style “metaverse system”—in which time, space, governance, and cosmology are all coherently encoded as a sustainable, executable format of civilization, from Rong Cheng Shi to Heaven, Earth, and Human.”

上海博物馆藏战国楚竹书于1994年由香港文物市场购入，并经香港收藏人士捐赠入藏，全批约一千七百枚、三万五千余字。竹简以楚系文字书写，内容涵盖儒家、道家、兵家等八十余种先秦古籍。其中的《柬大王泊旱》记录了一位楚王在旱灾与不确定中思考治理的篇章。内容涉及卜筮、水利、政务与德性反思，展现出战国晚期理性与礼制并行的治国智慧。它们不是权力的遗物，而是文明在危机中学习如何抉择与秩序共存的文本。The Shanghai Museum’s collection of Warring States Chu bamboo slips, acquired in 1994 from the Hong Kong antiquities market and later donated by local collectors, contains about 1,700 slips with more than 35,000 characters. Written in the Chu script, they include over eighty pre-Qin texts from the Confucian, Daoist, and military traditions. Among them, King Jian’s Drought Crisis records a Chu ruler’s reflections on governance amid drought and uncertainty—covering divination, hydraulics, statecraft, and moral reasoning. These slips embody the coexistence of reason and ritual in the late Warring States, not relics of power but living documents of how a civilization learned to balance choice and order in times of crisis.

湖北荆门沙洋，一座无战争痕迹的墓室中，出土六百五十余枚竹简。 没有征伐的篇章，只有一位将军的身后记录：祭祷、问病、物品账目——皆以墨书朱印，静静封存。他是楚国大司马悼滑。这些竹简所写的，不是战功，而是一个人在职责、病痛与告别中的生命痕迹。它们不是遗物，而是秩序与人生交织过的证据。In a quiet tomb in Shayang, Jingmen, Hubei, over 650 bamboo slips were unearthed—no tales of war, but the final records of a high-ranking general: ritual petitions, medical inquiries, and personal inventories, inked and sealed in red. His name was Da Sima Dao Hua. These slips speak not of conquest, but of one man’s final journey through duty, illness, and departure. They are not relics, but the trace of how order and life once intertwined.

从香港文物市场辗转归来的竹简，到今日清华大学修复保存的《清华简》，一座被遗忘的上古档案室重新开启。它们不是沉默的遗物，而是活着的记录——在竹上改写了楚人眼中的周史，也为楚国正名。在这间“上古档案室”里，历史被一片片拼回，记忆也在手指的触碰中复原。From the fragments once circulated through the Hong Kong antiquities market to the restored bamboo slips now preserved at Tsinghua University, the Tsinghua Chu Slips reopen an ancient archive once thought lost. They are not silent relics but living records—rewriting how the Chu people viewed the Zhou world and themselves. In the “Ancient Archive Room,” history is pieced together strip by strip, revealing a civilization’s effort to reclaim its name and its memory.

在楚地的泥土里，出土了一座没有屋顶的书店。墓主是一位爱读书的楚国士人，他把八百余枚竹简当作书架，将《太一生水》《五行》《老子》并列陈放。这里写着宇宙的生成，也描着修身的路径；水与德行、太一与仁义，在竹间交织成两千年前的思想森林。《郭店楚简》让思想重新生长，像春水，从竹简的纹理里缓缓流出。From the soil of ancient Chu emerged a bookstore without a roof. Its owner, a learned shi of the Chu state, arranged over 800 bamboo slips like shelves—placing Taiyi Sheng Shui, Wuxing, and Laozi side by side. Here the creation of the cosmos meets the practice of self-cultivation; water and virtue, the cosmos and humanity, intertwine into a forest of thought still alive after two millennia. The Guodian slips let philosophy breathe again—like spring water flowing through the grain of bamboo.

出土于湖北荆门包山的楚简，既是法的刻痕，也是魂的笔记。白日的楚人用律法维持秩序，夜晚的楚人以卜筮祈求庇佑；理性与神秘在同一根竹上并行，如两条永不交错的铁轨，在时间深处映照出一个文明对秩序的双重信仰。Unearthed at Baoshan in Jingmen, Hubei, the Chu bamboo slips record both the marks of law and the notes of the soul. By day, the people of Chu upheld order through legal codes; by night, they sought protection through divination. Rationality and mystery run side by side on the same bamboo line—two tracks that never cross, yet together reflect a civilization’s enduring faith in order across time.

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.

在楚国中层权力结构中，有一位叫“番胜”的封君，数次走进卜筮间，留下三道令人焦虑的问题——这个月侍奉楚王是否顺利？这场病会不会恶化？新宅能不能长久居住？他不是迷信，而是慎重评估一切变量，进行权力中的高压决策。天星观楚简，记录了一位战国精英的“风险控管日志”，也让我们看见：当年的贵族，就像今天的CEO，也需要一个“解忧事务所”。In the mid-tier power structure of the Chu state, there was a nobleman named Fan Sheng. He stepped into the divination chamber more than once, each time bringing a question shaped by deep anxiety: — Would his service to the King run smoothly this month? — Would his illness worsen, or pass? — Could his new residence truly become a long-term home? This was not superstition. It was a careful evaluation of shifting variables—power-bound decisions made under pressure. The Tianxingguan bamboo slips preserve his “risk management log”, showing us that even in the Warring States era, aristocrats—like today’s CEOs—needed a place to confront uncertainty. A Disquiet Affairs Office, where power meets precaution.

从九店楚简的日书出发，把“黄历小铺”作为楚人日常的时间指南：记录节令、宜忌与行止。以出土竹简为本，温柔讨论战国楚地的生活秩序与时间观。From the Daybook manuscripts among the Jiudian Chu bamboo slips, this “almanac shop” explores how the people of Warring States Chu recorded seasons, taboos, and daily conduct. Grounded in excavated texts, it reflects on the gentle rhythm of order in ancient life.

这不是一段“流失文物”的普通纪实，而是三卷战国楚帛书在七十九年间的真实旅程。1942年，长沙子弹库楚墓被战火照亮；1946年，三卷楚帛书流失海外，开启了漫长的漂泊——几经转手、辗转异国。2025年5月18日，第二卷《五行令》与第三卷《攻守占》，在北京首都国际机场由中国正式接收。那一刻，被接过的不是丝，而是一段曾被撕裂、如今重新续起的祖先之气。而第一卷四时令仍然沉睡异国，等待归位。// This story is not about ordinary lost relics but tells the true seventy-nine-year journey of three silk manuscripts from the Chu State in the Warring States period. In 1942, the Chu tomb at the Bullet Depot in Changsha was uncovered during wartime. In 1946, the three manuscripts were taken overseas and passed through many hands. On May 18, 2025, two of them — "The Five Phases Ordinance" and "Attack and Defense Divinations" — were formally received back in China at Beijing Capital International Airport. That moment was more than a return of silk; it was the reunion of an ancient breath once torn apart. The first scroll, "The Four Seasons Ordinance," still remains abroad, waiting to come home.

马王堆三号墓出土的四卷帛书——《导引图》《老子》《天文气象杂占》和《五星占》，构成了承续战国楚学传统的西汉早期“天人修行系统”。从调息内气的导引，到观星定序的天文，丝帛上的每一笔线条，既描写身体的运行，也对应星辰的轨迹。它不是哲学的抽象，而是一种可实践的宇宙观：人身为地，气脉通天，在一匹丝的经纬之间，藏着早期中国文明对“天地一体”的全部想象。// The four silk manuscripts unearthed from Mawangdui Tomb No. 3 — "The Daoyin Chart", "The Laozi", "Astronomical and Meteorological Divinations", and "Divinations of the Five Planets" — form an early Western Han system of body–cosmos cultivation that continued the spiritual tradition of the Chu culture. Daoyin breathing and stretching practices to the celestial observations that marked the seasons, every brushstroke on the silk depicts both the movement of the body and the path of the stars. It is not abstract philosophy but a living cosmology: the human body mirrors the earth, the vital energy links to the sky, and within one piece of silk lies the ancient imagination of the unity between heaven and humankind.

帛画并非“画”，而是楚人所绘的灵魂升天导航图。本篇聚焦两种图像宇宙：其一，楚图——人物御龙、龙凤交游、云气召神；其二，汉图——天地三界、尸寝星行。我们对照两种“帛上升天术”：楚图如咒、如召、如乘风归魂；汉图如典、如制、如礼序安灵。帛，是神之衣，也是魂之梯。文明曾在帛上画天，如今在图中归来。// Silk paintings were never mere "paintings" — they were celestial navigation charts for the soul. This entry focuses on two cosmic visions: the Chu image, where figures ride dragons, phoenixes cross the clouds, and divine vapors rise; and the Han image, where heaven, earth, and the underworld form a structured cosmos with the body at rest and the spirit ascending among the stars. These represent two "silk-bound arts of ascension": the Chu vision as incantation, invocation, and wind-borne return of the soul; the Han vision as canon, order, and ritual repose of the spirit. Silk is both the robe of gods and the ladder of souls — once the ancients painted heaven upon it, and now, through these images, that heaven returns.

楚帛书出土于1942年9月长沙子弹库1号楚墓，是中国已知最早的丝帛文献，也是战国时期唯一出土的帛书。全书分为《四时令》《五行令》《攻守占》三卷，共九百余字，图文并茂，以四方、四时与阴阳五行构建宇宙秩序。本文探问楚人如何在丝上书写时间，也在时间中书写自己。// The Chu Silk Manuscripts, unearthed in September 1942 from Tomb No. 1 at the Bullet Depot site in Changsha, are the earliest known silk texts discovered in China and the only silk manuscripts from the Warring States period. They comprise three scrolls — "The Ordinance of the Four Seasons", "The Ordinance of the Five Phases", and "Divinations on Attack and Defense" — totaling over nine hundred characters. Combining text and illustration, they present a cosmic order built upon the four directions, the seasons, and the interplay of yin and yang within the five elements. This piece explores how the Chu people wrote time upon silk, and how, through time, they wrote themselves.

在荆州的泥土深处，楚人的文字沉睡千年。它们不是被时间遗忘，而是被封存在潮湿的地脉，等待在纪南古城的心跳之中。《楚简越千年》第五集《一脉相承》以“城市的回声”为主轴，展开一场从竹简到奖牌、从学术到生活的文明再生——马拉松奖牌、非遗文创、书法课堂、光影舞台，楚简以新的方式走入我们的时代。我们开始明白：文明不是静止的遗产，而是仍在跳动的心。听见心跳，楚在呼吸。// Beneath the soil of Jingzhou, the characters of the ancient Chu have slept for millennia. They were not forgotten by time but sealed within the damp veins of the earth, waiting in the heartbeat of the old city of Jinan. Episode Five of “Across a Thousand Years of Chu Bamboo Slips” — “A Line Unbroken” — takes “the city’s echo” as its theme and traces the living revival of civilization: from bamboo slips to marathon medals, from scholarship to daily life. Through heritage crafts, calligraphy classes, and stage performances, the Chu slips return in new forms to our age. Gradually, we understand that civilization is not a silent relic, but a heart still beating. To hear its pulse is to know — Chu still breathes.

竹简再现人间，不靠奇迹，而靠一双双手。在荆州，从潘灯的研读与汇编楚文字，到黄有志的简牍复制，再到李胜洪的楚简书帖与孩子们的笔尖，文字的温度在指纹间延续。它们不再沉睡于墓葬，而在众手之书中醒来——三个荆州人以手为声，让文明重新被听见。// The return of the Chu bamboo slips to the human world is not a miracle, but the work of many hands. In Jingzhou, from Pan Deng's compilation of Chu characters to Huang Youzhi's reproduction of bamboo slips, from Li Shenghong's calligraphy of Chu texts to the young students writing with their own brushes, the warmth of words continues through fingertips. No longer buried in tombs, these slips awaken in the hands of people — three artisans of Jingzhou whose hands became voices, allowing civilization to be heard again.