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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.
- "Bamboo strips and wooden slips"
- 簡牘
- 简牍
Jul 8, 2010 · The Lop Noor texts (Loulan Hanjian 樓蘭漢簡) were discovered in the early 1930s by Huang Wenbi 黃文弼 (1893-1966). The content of texts written on bamboo or wooden slips ranges from documents of local military and civilian administration to personal letters, chronicles and literary texts.
When not needed, scribes rolled bamboo books up and wrote titles on them for easier storage and retrieval. The texts on bamboo slips include subjects as disparate as philosophy, law, politics, mathematics, medicine, and cartography.
Permalink. In China until the end of the Zhou (Chou) Dynasty (256 BCE), through China’s classical period, writing was done with a bamboo pen, with ink of soot, or lampblack upon slips of bamboo or wood, with wood being used mainly for short messages and bamboo for longer messages and for books.
Jun 20, 2022 · Most documents predating the invention of paper were written on wooden slips and bamboo, and examinations of ancient Chinese history show that these were major writing mediums as far back as the Zhou Dynasty (between 1046 and 256 BCE). Alongside other writing materials such as silk, stone slabs, bronzeware, and oracle bones, the bamboo and ...
Written on Bamboo and Silk has long been considered a landmark in its field. Critical in this regard is the excavation of numerous sites throughout China, where hundreds of thousands of documents written on bamboo and silk—as well as other media—were found, including some of the earliest copies of historical, medical, astronomical, military, and religious texts that are now essential to ...
used to write on bamboo and wood at this point, because these materials would no doubt have been both widely available and inexpensive.7 While other mate-rials, such as stone tablets or silk, were certainly employed to produce manu-scripts as well, these only account for a fraction of all extant examples. Admit-
