Liye Qin Slips
The Liye Qin Slips (Chinese:
Main content
[edit]The Liye bamboo slip documents and archives fully embody a wide range of document types and terms, the constant growth of administrative and judicial document styles. Among them are more than 68 types of archives and content, which have high value of supplementing and testifying history facts. Some in the academic circles have argued that its importance is no less than those of Oracle bone script and Dunhuang manuscripts. The world's oldest example of a multiplication table was found here.[3][4] The slips, used for writing in ancient times, have great significance in furthering research on Qin dynasty politics, economy and culture. All the historical artifacts from Liye are displayed at the Qin Dynasty Bamboo Slips Museum of Liye (Chinese:
Research value
[edit]The Qin bamboo slips of Liye are important for the research of the unification of the Qin Empire and the cultural expansion of the Qin. The slips belong to a model of the local authorities in the Qin dynasty. They also filled in the blank pages of the Records of the Grand Historian and Book of Han on the Qin and Han dynasties, and fundamentally changed the face of the academic history of thousands of years on warring States, Qin and Han dynasties. The slips contain thousands of pieces of bamboo slips without words, which takes on a very high research value.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ The archaeological discovery of Liye bamboo slips of the Qin dynasty: china.org.cn (19-Jul-02), (08-Aug-02)
- ^ Qin official documents found: chinadaily.com.cn (08-Aug-02) or org.cn (07-Aug-02)
- ^ Ancient times table hidden in Chinese bamboo strips: nature.com (07-Jan-14) or scientificamerican.com (07-Jan-14)
- ^ stamps (China - 13 September 2012) - Qin Dynasty Bamboo slips of Liye - Multiplication table: wnsstamps.post
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湖南 里 耶秦简博物 馆开馆: sohu.com (29-Oct-10), chnmuseum.cn (29-Oct-10) - ^ 《
里 耶秦简》特 种邮票 龙山里 耶首发: rednet.cn, jschina.com.cn or xinhuanet.com, also see wnsstamps.post