In this Chinese contract a Mr Zhang 'lacking able-bodied young men in his own family'
hires the services of a labourer surnamed Yin, of the same district, from the 2nd to the ninth month inclusive, and promises to give him by way of payment a suit of spring clothes with long sleeves and a pair of unlined leather shoes. It is dated to 924. At the end, space is left for the names of the hired man, a guarantor, and [the other way up] two witnesses.
Ink on paper
The British Library,
Or.8210/S.1897