Abstract: In the Wu-State bamboo documents of Zoumalou at Changsha,there is a type of household register document ending with “you moujia koushi” for short.The liji (the household register document of one li) bamboo documents of this type consist of two parts:First,the number of existing households and the number of men and women in one li are counted;Then according to the identity of the household,all the people and households in this li are categorized statistically.The purpose of the government to compile the register is to record and count all the household registrations in one li,instead of recording the men,especially the men in the military service.Therefore,its nature is not relevant to the dispatch and service documents.In the Wu bamboo documents,there is another type of household register document ending with “fan kou ruogan”.According to the record of annotations marked with “zu”,“jia zu” in the same type of household register in the Eastern Han Dynasty,as well as the records of levying service-substituted money “geng” during the Sun-Wu period,we can conclude this kind of documents has the function of levying capitation tax and corvée.Compared with the “fan kou ruogan” documents,the “you moujia koushi” documents which record basic information of the entire people,are more of a basic ledger.

Key words: “you moujia koushi”, “fan kou ruogan”, “dispatch and service documents”, a basic ledger