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    Bamboo and wooden slips (simplified Chinese: 简牍; traditional Chinese: 簡牘; pinyin: jiǎndú) are long, narrow strips of wood or bamboo, each typically holding...
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  • the alumnus's wishes and have not further pursued the question of his identity. Nor do we know how this collection of bamboo slips came to leave the country...
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  • Because of this, the wooden and bamboo slips were also named Zoumalou Wu bamboo slips (走马楼吴简). The quantity of bamboo and wooden slips found numbered more...
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  • Guoyu, I Ching, and the Tale of King Mu. They were written on bamboo slips, the usual writing material of the Warring States period, and it is from this...
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    design of the entrance gates to The National Archives at Kew. Bamboo and wooden slips Bamboo tally Chirograph: a similar system for creating two or more...
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    and from right to left (with punctuation and damaged characters added) is: Guodian Chu Slips Shuanggudui Yinqueshan Han Slips Zhangjiashan Han bamboo...
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    old rags, and fishnets. His new type of paper quickly displaced the bamboo and wooden slips used until then, and Cai received wealth and fame throughout...
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    Chu slips are dated to around 300 BC. There are in total about 804 bamboo slips in this cache, including 702 strips and 27 broken strips. The bamboo slip...
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    study, and exhibition of bamboo and wooden slips (Jiandu). It covers an area of 14,100-square-metre (152,000 sq ft). The Changsha Bamboo Slips Museum...
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    827 – 782 BC). A copy of the text in the Shanghai Museum corpus of bamboo and wooden slips (discovered in 1994) shows that the Zhou yi was used throughout...
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  • official who had died in 186 BC. The texts were written on traditional bamboo slips connected by cords into rolled scrolls. The written works included legal...
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  • The Liye Qin Slips Museum (Chinese: 里耶秦簡博物館) is a museum of bamboo and wooden slips of the Qin dynasty unearthed in 2002. It is located in the northeast...
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    replaced traditional Chinese writing mediums such as bamboo and wooden slips, as well as silk and paper scrolls. The evolution of the codex in China began...
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    bamboo texts (simplified Chinese: 睡虎地秦简; traditional Chinese: 睡虎地秦簡; pinyin: Shuìhǔdì Qín jiǎn) are early Chinese texts written on bamboo slips, and are...
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  • bamboo and wooden slips. According to Professor Qiu Xigui of Fudan University, most of the bamboo and wooden slips unearthed from ancient tombs and the...
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    depicting a hand holding a writing brush) and bamboo book (冊 cè, a book of thin bamboo and wooden slips bound with horizontal strings, like a Venetian...
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  • accidental rediscovery in 279 AD of a corpus of bamboo and wooden slips, as attested in the Book of Jin. The slips were found by a grave robber named Biao Zhun...
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    The Liye Qin Slips (Chinese: 里耶秦簡; pinyin: Lǐyē qínjiǎn) is a large collection of bamboo slips which were unearthed from Liye Ancient City in Longshan...
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    arrived a few days later to excavate the site. The bamboo slips were discovered in Tombs no. 1 and 2 at the foot of Yinqueshan (simplified Chinese: 银雀山;...
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    wedding invitations, and other cultural uses. In China, the early material was animal bones, later silk, bamboo, and wooden slips, until the 2nd century...
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    scribes were producing books using bamboo and wooden slips. Each strip contained a single column of script, and the books were bound together with hemp...
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    media used in other contexts—likely bamboo and wooden slips—were less durable than bronzes or oracle bones, and have not been preserved. The traditional...
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    these Warring States period bamboo slips was used as early as the late Shang period (from about 1250 BC). Bamboo or wooden strips were used as the standard...
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    typically short and more informal than the poetry and liturgies that make up the main corpus of Old Japanese. Bamboo and wooden slips Piggott (1990),...
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    5th century BCE or earlier, and in some cases continued to be used until the 19th century. In China, bamboo and wooden slips were used prior to the introduction...
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    Fifty-Two Ailments), and the other two manuscripts written on bamboo and wooden slips each transcribed two different texts bound separately and rolled together...
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  • to produce. Bamboo and wooden slips will remain the usual materials for books and scrolls in most of the world for another 200 years, and paper will remain...
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    replaced traditional Chinese writing supports such as bamboo and wooden slips, as well as silk and paper scrolls. The evolution of the codex in China began...
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    researched the Yinqueshan Han Slips and other excavated bamboo and wooden slips. He became an associate professor at PKU in 1978 and a full professor in 1983...
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    scripts discovered on bamboo and wooden slips are stylistically distinct from the earlier and even contemporary Qin-state scripts, and thus are often seen...
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