(1)1During his second expedition in 907, Stein obtained 708 bamboo slips at the beacon tower site of the Han Dynasty north of Dunhuang. See Stan's Archaeology of the Western Regions for details.
(2) In1915, Stein made his third expedition and obtained 84 bamboo slips at Feng Tunnel Site in Dunhuang and at 105 in Anxi and Jiuquan counties. See Stan's Archaeology of the Hinterland of Asia for details.
(3) 1920, Zhou Bingnan excavated 17 bamboo slips near the ancient city of Pan Xiaofang in Dunhuang. The original bamboo slips are now in Dunhuang Research Institute.
(4)1In the spring of 944, the Northwest Scientific Investigation Team excavated 49 Han bamboo slips near the ancient city of Pan Xiaofang in the northwest of Dunhuang. See Yan Wenru's Miscellaneous Notes on Archaeology in Hexi for details. The original bamboo slips are now in Taipei Central Library.
(5)1In August, 977, Jiayuguan Cultural Relics Protection Office obtained 9 1 bamboo slips in the Han Dynasty site of Feng Tunnel in Yumen City. The original bamboo slips are now in Jiayuguan Great Wall Museum.
(6)1June, 1979, the Gansu Provincial Cultural Relics Team and Dunhuang Cultural Center discovered the beacon tower site of Han Dynasty in Maquan Bay, which is 1 1 km west of Xiaofang Town in the northwest of Dunhuang. The new number is DZ 1, and there are 207 bamboo slips1unearthed. The original collection is Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology.
(7) 198 1 March, Dunhuang County Museum obtained 76 bamboo slips from the Han Dynasty bonfire site in the butter soil of Danghe Township, 57 kilometers northwest of Dunhuang. The original bamboo slips are now in Dunhuang Museum.
(8) From1986 to 1988, Dunhuang Museum obtained 37 pieces of wooden slips/kloc-0. Dunhuang Museum has a collection of primitive bamboo slips.
(9) From1990 to 1992, Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology excavated more than 20,000 Han bamboo slips at Xuanquanjia Site in Xiaogu County, 6 1 km east of Dunhuang City. Among the above-mentioned Dunhuang bamboo slips, the earliest is the third year of the Western Han Dynasty (98 BC), and the latest is the second year of Yonghe in Shun Di of the Eastern Han Dynasty (A.D. 137). Its contents are mostly related to the garrison activities in Dunhuang and Jiuquan counties in Han Dynasty, such as official documents, wanted orders, litigation documents, names of garrison soldiers, food books, books on defensive weapons, private letters from border guards, deeds of trading and lending, and Confucian classics such as Yi and Li Mu, which are used to study Shule River basin in Hexi.