3[1] (dated 168 BCE) at the Mawangdui Han tombs site in Changsha, Hunan, China.
The tomb was that of a young man, presumed to be a relative and perhaps the son of Lì Cāng (利蒼), who was the chancellor of the Kingdom of Changsha and first Marquis of Dài (軚).
Chūnqiū shìyǔ records historical events from the Spring and Autumn period and partially preserves over 2000 characters.
The first half of the name of the document refers to the period covered, Chūnqiū 春秋, meaning Spring and Autumn, while the second half of the title, shìyǔ (事语), is a historiographer's narrative, one type of the ‘yǔ’ (語) narrative genre of the period.
[2] The calligraphy of the document is similar to that on some bamboo books, a form transitional between the Qin seal script of the Eastern Zhou and Qin dynasty periods, and the clerical script of the Han dynasty.