《周礼》自汉初现身以来,其成书年代就争论不断,从西周初年周公之作、战国中晚期、汉初一直到汉代刘歆、王莽伪作,历时近千年。其中,战国中晚期说得到近现代学者的认可。然而面对现代考古学提供的大量新物证,仍须重新审视此悬而未决的瓶颈问题。鉴于玉器在礼制文明传统和《周礼》文本中无与匹敌的核心地位,本文以多重证据法系统地对照、分析两周秦汉出土玉器器类、纹饰、形制、组合等与《周礼》所载之异同,再证《周礼》成书于汉初,最可能即河阃献王时。
It's an unsettled dispute on the completed time of Zhouli since the Han Dynasty. From the early West Zhou dynasty(written by Zhou Gong) to the late Xi Han dynasty(forged by Liu Xin and Wang Mang),the time span nearly lasted thousand years,and there are many different views such as the book was written in the middle and late West Zhou dynasty, in the Spring and Autumn Period, in the middle and late Warring States Period,between the Qin and Han Dynasty, and in the former Han Dynasty, etc. , among them, that written in the middle and late Warring States Period is relatively accepted by many modern scholars. But today faced with lots of new evidence provided by modern archeology, we must Re-examine this unsettled bottleneck problem. In consideration of that jade is the core and holy essential factor through out the great cultural tradition and written tradition, and the unmatched position in Zhouli. This article focuses on the overall analysis of new evidences-unearthed jades from West Zhou to Han Period, through the system contrast of type, sculpture, shape and structure and combination between the unearthed jades and the records in Zhouli based on the multiple evidences, demonstrate once again that Zhouli was completed in early Han Dynasty, and most likely in King Xian of Hejian period.