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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 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.
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  1. 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 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 ...

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  3. The documents were written on hundreds of strips of bamboo, about the size of chopsticks, that seemed to date from 2,500 years ago... But their authenticity was in doubt, as were the ethics of buying looted goods.

  4. Bamboo slips were one of China’s principal writing formats, its earliest kind of book, and, almost two thousand years old, longer lasting. Bamboo’s advantage over wood was its flexibility, imperviousness, smooth surface, and light weight.

  5. Before the invention of paper, documents were written in vertical columns on strips of bamboo. The strips were then bound together with string. What do you think the challenges were in writing on this type of surface? Juting Hanjian written on bamboo strips (period of Han Wudi, 97 BC - 111 AD).

  6. Jul 8, 2010 · The basic writing material of the Han period were bamboo or wooden slips (jian 簡, mei 枚), usually with a length of 23cm, which corresponded to one "foot" (chi 尺, see weights and measures). Canonical texts and imperial edicts were written on longer slips, like the Yili from Wuwei with a length of between 50 and 56cm.

  7. Bamboo script refers to a style of writing that emerged during the Han Dynasty, characterized by its use of bamboo strips as a medium for inscribing text. This script was significant for its unique brushstrokes and formation of characters that distinguished it from other calligraphic forms.

  8. 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 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 ...