“抱布贸丝”及其它——关于《贸易小考》一文的续貂

• 作 者: 后文洙
• 出 处: 江苏商论
• 发表日期: 1988年08期
• 关键词: 卫风 《毛传》 江苏商论 布币 种棉 祝融 古史考 唐时 交换活动 梁书

读《江苏商论》1988年第6期《贸易小考》一文后,难以缄默,谨作以下续貂。一、“抱布贸丝”《诗经·卫风·氓》中:“氓之蚩蚩,抱布贸丝”,是记载西周时自由民以原始的铜铸货币来交换丝。《毛传》:布,币也。布,(读搏)与镈同音假借,镈是一种锄属农具,西周时仿农具的铜铸币叫做“布”(这种布币在博物馆里可看到)。因而,“抱布贸丝”的“布”,不是棉布。我国最早用作纺织的原料是麻和葛,而后才有丝,种棉是从非洲经中亚引进来的,约在西汉时期,西

After reading “Jiangsu Business Theory,” No. 6, 1988, “Trade Quiz,” a text, it is hard to be silent. First, the “Cloth Trade Bazaar” “Book of Songs Weifeng rogue”: “rogue wandering, holding cloth Trade Silk” is recorded in the Western Zhou Dynasty Liberal to the original copper coins to exchange money. “Mao Biography”: cloth, currency also. Cloth, (reading stroke) and 镈 homonym, 镈 is a hoe farm tools, copper tools imitation of Western Zhou Dynasty coin is called “cloth” (this cloth coins can be seen in the museum). Therefore, “cloth”, “cloth”, not cotton. The earliest materials used for textile in our country are Ma and Ge, and then silk, cotton is imported from Africa via Central Asia, about the Western Han Dynasty, West