There are terracotta warriors and horses in the south and Liye Qin bamboo slips in the north? When it comes to the terracotta warriors and horses, everyone knows it, but when it comes to Liye Qin bamboo slips, most people have never heard of it. The batch of Qin bamboo slips were unearthed in the ancient city of Liye, Longshan County, Hunan Province in 2002 and 2005 respectively, with more than 36,000 bamboo slips per bamboo slip.
The Qin Dynasty was the first feudal dynasty in my country, but the Qin Dynasty only unified history for 15 years. There are few records about the history of the Qin Dynasty, and these Qin bamboo slips not only fill in the history of the Qin Dynasty That period of history overturned the relevant history recorded in the official history.
Longshan County is located on the west side of the Wuling Mountains, at the junction of the three provinces of Hunan, Hubei, and Chongqing. The ancient city of Liye belonged to the sphere of influence of the "Wuling Barbarians" in ancient times. Due to inconvenient transportation, it has always been inaccessible. However, it is precisely because of this that this batch of Qin bamboo slips has been completely preserved.
The most famous thing in the ancient city of Liye is the ancient city wall. The wall is 2 meters high and 24 meters thick at the bottom. During the Qin Dynasty, as for the Qin bamboo slips, they were unearthed from an ancient well. Archaeological experts call it "the first well in China".
The ancient well is 14.28 meters deep, and the well surface is 3 meters above the ground. It is built with 43 layers of tenoned wooden boards. The gaps between the well walls are filled with plaster mud, and the bottom of the well is made of pebbles. This kind of structure is also extremely rare in Qinjing. The first Qin bamboo slips were discovered in the well on June 3, 2002. After that, more than 30,000 Qin bamboo slips were discovered in the next day, with more than 200,000 words of records. So these Qin bamboo slips were found in the well on June 3, 2002. Why does Jane appear here?
In the legend of Western Hunan, when Qin Shihuang burned books and harassed Confucian scholars, two old men could not bear the burning of their precious books, so they asked students to copy the texts overnight, and they fled with the Qin slips. Fifteen kilometers northwest of Yuanling, there is Eryou Mountain. On the cliff on the mountainside, there is a cave entrance, and two old people are hiding in the cave.
So there is an idiom: "Books can be read twice, and learning can be rich". However, no books were found in the mountains, but ancient wells appeared. Perhaps it was passed down by word of mouth, in order to protect the Qin bamboo slips. The location was changed, and the cave may refer to the ancient well.
Most of the text in this batch of Qin bamboo slips belongs to Qin Li, which contains various records and the most complete multiplication table. This multiplication table is very similar to the modern multiplication table, which also shows that Our country invented the multiplication table more than 600 years earlier than the West.
There is also a sentence in the Qin bamboo slips: "Qianling County is sent to Dongting County by post". This sentence means: "Emails from Qianling County are sent to Dongting County". However, in the "Historical Records" written by Sima Qian of the Western Han Dynasty? "The Chronicles of the Qin Emperor" records that Qin Shihuang unified the world into 36 counties, but Dongting County was not among them. Just seven words overturned 2,000 years of official history records.
There are many things that can be studied in this batch of Qin bamboo slips. If what they record is true, then the authenticity of "Historical Records" is questionable.