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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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