<Article>The Hsiao-tzu 子 in Chin-wen 金文 in His-chou 西周 the structure of the government under His-chou

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The hsiao-tzu in Chin-wên in Hsi-chou is expressed variously : ① hsiao-tzu 小子 yü hsiao-tzu 余小子, ③ tsung hsiao-tzu 宗小子, ④ hsiao-tzu mou 小子某, ⑤ mou hsiao-tzu mou 某小子某, ⑥ ta-shih hsiao-tzu mou 大師小子某. ②, ③ and some of ① have been interpreted as literally " little child ", while ④, ⑤, ⑥, and the others of ①, as the names of the government office, because hsiao-tzu was recorded shu 属 under Ssŭ-ma 司馬 Chou-li 周礼。 In this article, I have made an examination of these problems as to hsiao-tzu, and arrived at the conclusions as follows. ④ the title of those who were descended from the Chou dynasty. ⑤ the title of those who were descended from the subjects of the Chou dynasty or the sub-vassals. ⑥: a kind of ⑤. ③ : used by those who had the title of ④, when they called themselves against the Chou dynasty. ① : some was the name of the group which was formed by those who had the title of ④. others meant "young men". ② : derived from ①, and used when the king, the lords and the subjects of the Chou dynasty called themselves modestly. And Yu-ssŭ 有𤔲 in Chin-wên was the general name of the government office. Judging from these facts, I should say that the lordship in Hsi-chou was formed by both the kinship (exemplified by hsiao-tzu) and the official relation (exemplified by Yu-ssu), and that their stratified mechanism was the structure of the government.

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  • 史林

    史林 64 (6), 828-849, 1981-11-01

    THE SHIGAKU KENKYUKAI (The Society of Historical Research), Kyoto University

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