It is believed that "these bamboo slips of the Warring States are very precious historical relics, involving the core content of China's traditional culture, and are unprecedented major discoveries, which will have a far-reaching impact on many disciplines such as history, archaeology and philology". After cleaning and browsing, it was initially confirmed that there were 2388 bamboo slips in the Warring States period, which were books in nature.
Most of them are related to history, and bamboo slips include Shangshu and chronological history books. Since March 2009, Tsinghua University began to make a preliminary interpretation of Bamboo Slips of Tsinghua, and made a series of important discoveries. This time, Zhou Wuwang's musical poem "Seeing the Light of Day Again" undoubtedly has great historical and academic value.
In July 2008, donated by Tsinghua alumni, a batch of bamboo slips of the Warring States Period (referred to as "Tsinghua Bamboo Slips") were rescued from abroad and entered Tsinghua University. According to preliminary statistics, there are ***2 100 pieces of "Tsinghua Bamboo Slips", accounting for a large proportion of the whole bamboo slips, and there are generally characters on bamboo slips. "Tsinghua Bamboo Slips" have various shapes, the longest is 46 cm, and the shortest is 10 cm.
The ink calligraphy characters on bamboo slips come from different calligraphers with different styles, and most of them are finished products. On several bamboo slips, there is also a red plaid word "Zhu". According to the measurement, the date of "Tsinghua Bamboo Slips" is about 305 30 BC, which is equivalent to the mid-Warring States period. Appraised by authoritative experts such as 1 1 Li, Qiu Xigui, etc.