What word was used in ancient China to express the meaning of letters?

Hongyan In the Biography of Hongyan,

Ruler, ruler, ruler book. .

Also, I remember a poem that left me a pair of carp with a ruler book in it.

Double carp is a woodcut carp made of two wooden boards, which is equivalent to an envelope. What about the size element? This is a letter written in ordinary silk ~

The documents of Han Dynasty are mainly bamboo slips, which are made of bamboo and wood ~

There was a paper letter at the end of the Han Dynasty. =~