Historical significance and value of bamboo slips

I believe that many people may not know about bamboo slips, because we seldom come into contact with them in real life. Bamboo slips have never entered people's field of vision because of their difficult words, so compared with many other traditional arts, people still know too little. We know that many bamboo slips have been collected by museums as first-class cultural relics, and recently they have been passed through Gansu bamboo slips.

The significance of bamboo slips

Many people may know bamboo slips for the first time, but they don't know what bamboo slips are. In fact, it is the first time that I know that bamboo slips and wood chips used for writing in ancient China are called open books. In fact, it is a general term for several things, referring to bamboo slips, wooden slips, bamboo slips and wooden slips. Before the invention of paper, bamboo slips were the most important form of China's books, which had a far-reaching influence on the book system of later generations. Today, if you do some relevant understanding, you will know that the terminology, writing format and writing method of books today still inherit the tradition formed during the bamboo slips period.

The status of bamboo slips

We know that evaluating the value of a thing depends on its historical development and its influence on our modern life. Before the invention of paper, bamboo slips were the main form of China's books, and the generation of later books was deeply influenced by bamboo slips. The writing form of calligraphy, from top to bottom and from right to left, also deeply inherits the tradition of writing simple books. As the carrier of calligraphy culture, bamboo slips predate silk books, stone carvings (inscriptions, cliffs) and paper. For the practical value and significance of bamboo slips calligraphy in history, it has a lofty position and great cultural and artistic value. It can be said that bamboo slips laid the foundation of calligraphy art, the main body of calligraphy and the oldest writing form.

The value of bamboo slips

In ancient times, bamboo slips existed as a routine to preserve information, so they left various historical information. If there were no bamboo slips, future generations would know nothing about this history. In fact, its significance lies in the preservation of all aspects of history, and its historical and cultural value is greater than the artistic value of calligraphy. Bamboo slips not only record the government affairs, military affairs, astronomy and geography, agricultural and medical knowledge, legal system, culture and education, Confucius' studies and the opinions of a hundred schools of thought in different times, but also preserve and spread them, giving full play to the value of historical remains, thus rewriting the history of a certain period, which is of great significance as the source of writing calligraphy.