More than 1,000 bamboo slips on display in Chinese museum
STORY: More than 1,000 bamboo slips on display in Chinese museum
DATELINE: Sept. 8, 2023
LENGTH: 0:01:17
LOCATION: LANZHOU, China
CATEGORY: CULTURE
SHOTLIST:
1. various of the new hall of the Gansu Bamboo Slip Museum
2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): XIAO CONGLI, Gansu Bamboo Slip Museum
3. various of bamboo slips on display
STORYLINE:
The new hall of a bamboo slip museum in northwest China's Gansu Province opened on Thursday, with more than 1,000 ancient bamboo slips on display.
Most of these slips are being showcased for the first time since they were discovered, including those dating back some 2,000 years to the Han Dynasty (202 BC-AD 220).
Bamboo slips, with vertical columns of characters, were China's first form of books. They were the main writing material before paper. A bamboo slip, or even a character on it, could reveal hidden history.
SOUNDBITE (Chinese): XIAO CONGLI, Gansu Bamboo Slip Museum
"These two slips wrote about ancient post stations, depicting the east section of the ancient Silk Road
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