The Significance of Bamboo Slips in Zoumalou

The contents of the Wu bamboo slips of Zoumalou are mainly local documents and archives, including judicial documents, yellow books, names of people, tax payment and account books for entry and exit. The font of bamboo slips is between official script, regular script and running script, and there are some beautiful cursive scripts, which occupy an important position in the history of calligraphy in China.

The discovery of bamboo slips of Sun Wu in Zoumalou provides important material for studying Wu's social, political, economic and related ancient books and records system during the Three Kingdoms period.