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“Greeting Tablets” in Early China
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Since the 1930s, Chinese archaeologists have discovered a number of inscribed
wooden tablets from the early Han to the Western Jin, which were identified as
“greeting tablets” of two types, ci 刺 and ye 謁. As
attested in transmitted accounts, these tablets played an important role in the
communicative etiquette of early imperial and early medieval officialdom; during
a meeting ceremony, they were presented by the guest to the host. The present
article offers a systematic survey of the available corpus of excavated greeting
tablets and explores their wider socio-cultural implications. As a component of
the communicative etiquette of the bureaucracy, greeting tablets were
instrumental in the adaptation of elements of aristocratic culture to the needs
of mass officialdom—a new social stratum that in terms of cultural
background differed fundamentally from the hereditary aristocracy of the
pre-imperial era but occupied a comparable position as a social and political
elite.
Depuis les années 1930 les archéologues chinois ont
découvert de nombreuses tablettes de bois inscrites datant du
début des Han jusqu’aux Jin occidentaux, qui ont été
identifiées comme étant des « tablettes de
salutation ». Il en existe deux types, les ci 刺 et les ye
謁. Comme l’attestent les textes transmis, ces tablettes jouaient
un rôle important dans l’étiquette régissant les
communications entre fonctionnaires dans la période impériale
ancienne et au début de l’époque médiévale:
l’hôte les présentait à l’invité au
cours du cérémonial marquant leur rencontre. Cet article propose
un inventaire systématique du corpus des tablettes de salutation
découvertes dans les fouilles et s’intéresse plus
généralement à leurs implications socio-culturelles. Partie
intégrante de l’étiquette des communications, ces tablettes
ont joué leur rôle dans l’adaptation de certains
éléments de la culture aristocratique aux besoins de la masse des
fonctionnaires, autrement dit d’un groupe social nouveau dont le fonds
culturel différait fondamentalement de celui de l’aristocratie
héréditaire mais dont la position en tant qu’élite
sociale et politique était comparable.
Title: “Greeting Tablets” in Early China
Description:
Since the 1930s, Chinese archaeologists have discovered a number of inscribed
wooden tablets from the early Han to the Western Jin, which were identified as
“greeting tablets” of two types, ci 刺 and ye 謁.
As
attested in transmitted accounts, these tablets played an important role in the
communicative etiquette of early imperial and early medieval officialdom; during
a meeting ceremony, they were presented by the guest to the host.
The present
article offers a systematic survey of the available corpus of excavated greeting
tablets and explores their wider socio-cultural implications.
As a component of
the communicative etiquette of the bureaucracy, greeting tablets were
instrumental in the adaptation of elements of aristocratic culture to the needs
of mass officialdom—a new social stratum that in terms of cultural
background differed fundamentally from the hereditary aristocracy of the
pre-imperial era but occupied a comparable position as a social and political
elite.
Depuis les années 1930 les archéologues chinois ont
découvert de nombreuses tablettes de bois inscrites datant du
début des Han jusqu’aux Jin occidentaux, qui ont été
identifiées comme étant des « tablettes de
salutation ».
Il en existe deux types, les ci 刺 et les ye
謁.
Comme l’attestent les textes transmis, ces tablettes jouaient
un rôle important dans l’étiquette régissant les
communications entre fonctionnaires dans la période impériale
ancienne et au début de l’époque médiévale:
l’hôte les présentait à l’invité au
cours du cérémonial marquant leur rencontre.
Cet article propose
un inventaire systématique du corpus des tablettes de salutation
découvertes dans les fouilles et s’intéresse plus
généralement à leurs implications socio-culturelles.
Partie
intégrante de l’étiquette des communications, ces tablettes
ont joué leur rôle dans l’adaptation de certains
éléments de la culture aristocratique aux besoins de la masse des
fonctionnaires, autrement dit d’un groupe social nouveau dont le fonds
culturel différait fondamentalement de celui de l’aristocratie
héréditaire mais dont la position en tant qu’élite
sociale et politique était comparable.
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