Bamboo slips are the main materials for ancient China ancestors to write books, documents and other text carriers before the invention of paper, and they are one of the oldest books in China. Bamboo slips, together with Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Dunhuang suicide note and Ming and Qing archives, are listed as the four major discoveries of oriental civilization in the 20th century. At present, the study of bamboo slips has also formed a worldwide discipline at an alarming rate. It has opened up a brand-new field for the academic research of China's history and culture from many angles and fields, such as history, archaeology, ancient philology, philology and calligraphy.
Bamboo slips appeared almost at the same time as Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Jinwen, and it was the most popular period from the Spring and Autumn Period to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. After the invention of paper, bamboo slips and paper went hand in hand for hundreds of years, and it was not until Heng Xuan ordered it at the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty that the bamboo slip system ended.
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Bamboo slips, bamboo pieces used for writing in ancient times, also refer to bamboo pieces with characters written on them. Written materials from Warring States to Wei and Jin Dynasties. It is a kind of long and narrow bamboo (also called wood chips, called wooden slips), which are wider than Jane's. Bamboo slips are called bamboo slips and wooden slips are called wooden slips. All the books are written with brush and ink. Books for writing imperial edicts and decrees are three feet (about 67.5cm) long, books for copying scriptures are two feet four inches (about 56cm) long, and letters for folk writing are one foot (about 23cm) long, so people also call letters "letters". Important discoveries have been made in Changsha, Hunan, Jingzhou, Hubei, Linyi, Shandong, Dunhuang, Juyan, Wuwei and other northwest regions. Among them, books from the Eastern Han Dynasty were unearthed in Juyan.