Bamboo slips produced time:
According to the records in Shangshu Toz: "Only the ancestors of Yin Dynasty had books and classics" and the words "classics" and "classics" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Shang Dynasty, it can be seen that as early as Shang Dynasty, people had already made books with bamboo slips and wooden slips. From the unearthed documents and handed down documents, in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, simplified books had been applied to all fields of society and became the main carrier of archival documents and books at that time.
The meaning of bamboo slips:
Bamboo slips are mostly bamboo pieces, each piece writes a line, and all the bamboo pieces of an article are woven together, which is called "bamboo slips". This is the earliest book form in ancient China, and the wood chips used for writing characters are called wooden slips, which are mostly used for writing short articles. 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 Jin Wen.
The influence of bamboo slips:
Bamboo slips are the longest-used book form in the history of China, the main writing tool before the invention of papermaking and the popularization of paper, the cultural preservation and communication medium determined by our ancestors after repeated comparisons and difficult choices, and an important revolution in the history of media.
For the first time, the characters were liberated from the top circle of society and strode towards a broader society, which was magnificent. Therefore, bamboo slips have played a vital role in the spread of China culture. It is precisely because of its appearance that a hundred schools of thought contend, and the ideology and culture of celebrities such as Confucius and Laozi have been passed down to this day.