男友太凶猛1v1高h,大地资源在线资源免费观看 ,人妻少妇精品视频二区,极度sm残忍bdsm变态

Global EditionASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
Culture
Home / Culture / Heritage

Massive collection of bamboo, wooden slips found in Hubei tomb

By WANG KAIHAO | China Daily | Updated: 2019-05-14 09:01
Share
Share - WeChat
Researchers from Jingzhou Museum clean bamboo and wooden slips in a lab. [Photo provided to China Daily]

The number of bamboo and wooden slips found at a tomb complex in China is the most among any ancient tomb in the country so far.

As many as 4,546 slips were recently unearthed from a 2,000-year-old tomb in Jingzhou, Hubei province, as announced in a news conference in Beijing last week.

This excavation is expected to offer vast knowledge of Chinese society back then.

Before papermaking was invented in the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), bamboo and wooden slips were the main media for writing in China.

The reservoir of slips was found inside one of 18 tombs in a graveyard from the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24), which were excavated by archaeologists in 2018. The heritage site is on the northern outskirts of Jingzhou and less than 1 kilometer from the ruins of a contemporaneous city.

Li Zhifang, an associate researcher from Jingzhou Museum, says the new finding covers a wide range. The unearthed materials include 200 slips of calendars and ephemeris, 70 slips of chronicles, 1,500 legal documents and 1,000 medical treatments that were not only for humans but also for curing animals and plants.

"We have cleaned only a small portion of the slips," Li says. "It is no doubt a big discovery because the well-preserved items have many themes to study."

For example, the dates of solstices and key solar terms from the traditional Chinese calendar are recorded every year from 140 to 41 BC.

The legal documents provide detailed explanations of imperial laws at the time, including taxation and auditing, livestock herding and protection of private property. They also show regulations on finding escaped prisoners or laborers running away from corvee, in which unpaid services for major construction projects were organized.

One medical cure is a formula to make teeth whiter by using cinnamon, and another is on how to make lean cattle fatter.

Li says a lot of the content on the slips supplement written history of the time, but some also vary.

1 2 Next   >>|
Most Popular
Top
BACK TO THE TOP
English
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
主站蜘蛛池模板: 巧家县| 梅州市| 嘉禾县| 布拖县| 鲜城| 平乡县| 海口市| 平顺县| 灌南县| 永靖县| 黄浦区| 保亭| 临朐县| 武冈市| 武夷山市| 阜宁县| 定日县| 比如县| 博客| 文登市| 秭归县| 德惠市| 泌阳县| 上蔡县| 广宁县| 苍溪县| 平安县| 连州市| 衡山县| 古丈县| 临邑县| 济阳县| 云阳县| 沾化县| 磐石市| 江津市| 安吉县| 崇文区| 福鼎市| 贞丰县| 天门市|