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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.