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Books & Documents · TT502

Bamboo Slips & Silk Texts

Bamboo slips, wooden tablets and silk manuscripts

10treasures

6dynasties

9institutions

Zhou

3 treasures

1046–221 BCE

Mid Warring States period · Bamboo Slips & Silk Texts

Guodian Chu SlipsThe Laozi as it was read over two thousand years agoJingmen MuseumTE10042 Warring States period · Bamboo Slips & Silk Texts

Shanghai Museum Warring States Chu Bamboo ManuscriptsChu books rescued from the antiques marketShanghai MuseumTE10512 Mid Warring States period · Bamboo Slips & Silk Texts

Tsinghua Bamboo SlipsLost Warring States books brought back to lightTsinghua University Research and Conservation Center for Excavated TextsTE10518

Qin

2 treasures

221–207 BCE

Late Warring States to Qin · Bamboo Slips & Silk Texts

Shuihudi Qin Bamboo SlipsThe law books a Qin clerk took to his graveHubei Provincial MuseumTE10041 Qin dynasty · Bamboo Slips & Silk Texts

Yuelu Academy Qin SlipsQin law and arithmetic bought back from Hong KongYuelu Academy, Hunan UniversityTE10516

Han

2 treasures

202 BCE – 220 CE

Early Western Han dynasty · Bamboo Slips & Silk Texts

Mawangdui Silk TextsA library on silk from a Han tombHunan MuseumTE10043 Han dynasty · Bamboo Slips & Silk Texts

Juyan Han Slips (1930 finds)Han slips that crossed half the worldInstitute of History and Philology, Academia SinicaTE10515

Three Kingdoms

1 treasures

220–280

Wu of the Three Kingdoms · Bamboo Slips & Silk Texts

Zoumalou Wu SlipsThree Kingdoms registers and ledgers from an old wellChangsha Bamboo and Wooden Slips MuseumTE10521

Tang

1 treasures

618–907

Tang dynasty · Ritual Jades

Jade Book for the Earth Sacrifice of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Thirteenth Year of KaiyuanThe jade book of Tang Xuanzong's Mount Tai riteNational Palace MuseumTE10111

Song

1 treasures

960–1279

Northern Song dynasty · Ritual Jades

Jade Book for the Earth Sacrifice of Emperor Zhenzong of Song, First Year of Dazhong Xiangfu, with 52 Casket InlaysJade tablets from a Song imperial riteNational Palace MuseumTE10110