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Yinqueshan Han Slips
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The Yinqueshan Han Slips are ancient Chinese writing tablets from the Western Han dynasty, made of bamboo strips and discovered in 1972. The tablets contain many writings that were not previously known or shed new light on the ancient versions of classic texts.
Fragments of The Art of War that are part of the Yinqueshan Han Slips.
Fragments of The Art of War that are part of the Yinqueshan Han Slips.
Bamboo and wooden slips
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Bamboo and wooden slips are long, narrow strips of wood or bamboo, each typically holding a single column of several dozen brush-written characters. They were the main media for writing documents in China before the widespread introduction of paper during the first two centuries AD.
Replica of bamboo slips from the Warring States period
Replica of bamboo slips from the Warring States period
A single slip (shown in six parts) from the Shanghai Museum bamboo slips (c. 300 BC), recording part of a commentary on the Classic of Poetry
A single slip (shown in six parts) from the Shanghai Museum bamboo slips (c. 300 BC), recording part of a commentary on the Classic of Poetry
An 18th-century edition of The Art of War made with bamboo strips
An 18th-century edition of The Art of War made with bamboo strips