The Zhangjiashan site had been used as a cemetery from the Eastern Zhou to the Han periods (770 BCE-220 CE). Among the many tombs found at the site from the 1950s on, tomb no. 247 discovered in 1983 once again aroused scholars’ interest in early Chinese legal history since the discovery of the Shuihudi Qin tomb in the 1970s. Two legal manuscripts, titled Ernian lüling (Statutes and Ordinances of the Second Year) and Zouyan shu (Book of Submitted Doubtful Cases), were recovered from the tomb. Considering the nature of the entombed manuscripts, it is suggested that the tomb occupant was a low-ranking legal official who had served under the jurisdiction of Nan Commandery in the early Han from 203 to 194 BCE.