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“Cheng Wang Wei Cheng Pu Zhi Han” has been included in “Shanghai Museum’s Collection of Warring States Chu Bamboo Slips (Vol.9)”. It has been discovered 9 bamboo slips and 209 words so far. Although it can be compared to “Tso-Chuan” , it still has a lot of questions to be solved with the research on ancient texts and arranging bamboo slips. What it records is King Chen of Chu commanded Zi-Wen to teach Zi-Yu how to training the army before War of Chen-Pu. In spite of the fact that it’s slightly different than “Tso-Chuan”, both of them are similar in contexts. Most of the researchers have focused on commentaries or discussion of the anxient words between written characters, pronunciation and meaning. In order to develop possibility of the discussion on various aspects, the paper would connect other related questions. It begins by discussing form, arranging and difficult words. Having discussed the questions above and proposed the discoveries, I am in the hope of understanding what does “Cheng Wang Wei Cheng Pu Zhi Han” mean. Secondly, I would be trying to translate the whole article of “Cheng Wang Wei Cheng Pu Zhi Han” and some sentences are discussed in detail at the same time. In addition, the views and interpretations of the first sentence of “Cheng Wang Wei Cheng Pu Zhi Han” are proposed. Third, although the Battle of Chen-Pu is an important battle in the Spring and Autumn Period, there are different views on the process of engagement all along. The article records about training army before the Battle of Chen-Pu, therefore this battle can not be ignored. I hope to present the battle process between Jin and Chu after sorting out each of the views on the Battle of Chen-Pu by "Tso-Chuan". Fourthly, from the records of the “Cheng Wang Wei Cheng Pu Zhi Han” and “Tso-Chuan”, it’s obviously that Wei-Jia criticized Zi-Yu without talents of traning army and predicted that Zi-Yu was defeated. The result of the Battle of Cheng-Pu, Chu was defeated by Jin and Zi-Yu suicided to take responsibility for defeat. The prophecy was fulfilled seemingly by Wei-Jia, however, the reason behind the death of Zi-Yu was not purely due to the defeat of the battle, but a tragedy under political struggle. |