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(231130) -- BEIJING, Nov. 30, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A staff member of the Gansu Jiandu Museum arranges self-made works of "Jiandu" in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 25, 2023. "Jiandu" are the bamboo and wooden slips on which ancient Chinese people wrote using ink and brushes before the invention of paper. The Gansu Jiandu Museum is China's only provincial-level museum focusing on bamboo and wooden slips. It has a collection of nearly 40,000 such slips dating back to the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.) and Western Jin Dynasty (265-317), and it also houses more than 10,000 other artifacts, including paper, textiles, woodenware, lacquerware and ironware. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)

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CHINA-GANSU-BAMBOO AND WOODEN SLIPS-MUSEUM (CN)

(231129) -- LANZHOU, Nov. 29, 2023 (Xinhua) -- People visit the Gansu Jiandu Museum in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 25, 2023. "Jiandu" are the bamboo and wooden slips on which ancient Chinese people wrote using ink and brushes before the invention of paper. The Gansu Jiandu Museum is China's only provincial-level museum focusing on bamboo and wooden slips. It has a collection of nearly 40,000 such slips dating back to the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.) and Western Jin Dynasty (265-317), and it also houses more than 10,000 other artifacts, including paper, textiles, woodenware, lacquerware and ironware. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)

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CHINA-GANSU-BAMBOO AND WOODEN SLIPS-MUSEUM (CN)

(231129) -- LANZHOU, Nov. 29, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A staff member of the Gansu Jiandu Museum arranges self-made works of "Jiandu" in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 25, 2023. "Jiandu" are the bamboo and wooden slips on which ancient Chinese people wrote using ink and brushes before the invention of paper. The Gansu Jiandu Museum is China's only provincial-level museum focusing on bamboo and wooden slips. It has a collection of nearly 40,000 such slips dating back to the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.) and Western Jin Dynasty (265-317), and it also houses more than 10,000 other artifacts, including paper, textiles, woodenware, lacquerware and ironware. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)

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CHINA-GANSU-BAMBOO AND WOODEN SLIPS-MUSEUM (CN)

(231129) -- LANZHOU, Nov. 29, 2023 (Xinhua) -- People visit the Gansu Jiandu Museum in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 25, 2023. "Jiandu" are the bamboo and wooden slips on which ancient Chinese people wrote using ink and brushes before the invention of paper. The Gansu Jiandu Museum is China's only provincial-level museum focusing on bamboo and wooden slips. It has a collection of nearly 40,000 such slips dating back to the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.) and Western Jin Dynasty (265-317), and it also houses more than 10,000 other artifacts, including paper, textiles, woodenware, lacquerware and ironware. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)

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CHINA-GANSU-BAMBOO AND WOODEN SLIPS-MUSEUM (CN)

(231129) -- LANZHOU, Nov. 29, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Xiao Congli (1st R), research director of the Gansu Jiandu Museum, talks with colleagues about digitalization of "Jiandu" in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 25, 2023. "Jiandu" are the bamboo and wooden slips on which ancient Chinese people wrote using ink and brushes before the invention of paper. The Gansu Jiandu Museum is China's only provincial-level museum focusing on bamboo and wooden slips. It has a collection of nearly 40,000 such slips dating back to the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.) and Western Jin Dynasty (265-317), and it also houses more than 10,000 other artifacts, including paper, textiles, woodenware, lacquerware and ironware. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)

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CHINA-GANSU-BAMBOO AND WOODEN SLIPS-MUSEUM (CN)

(231129) -- LANZHOU, Nov. 29, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A staff member of the Gansu Jiandu Museum arranges a work of "Jiandu" in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 26, 2023. "Jiandu" are the bamboo and wooden slips on which ancient Chinese people wrote using ink and brushes before the invention of paper. The Gansu Jiandu Museum is China's only provincial-level museum focusing on bamboo and wooden slips. It has a collection of nearly 40,000 such slips dating back to the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.) and Western Jin Dynasty (265-317), and it also houses more than 10,000 other artifacts, including paper, textiles, woodenware, lacquerware and ironware. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)

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CHINA-GANSU-BAMBOO AND WOODEN SLIPS-MUSEUM (CN)

(231129) -- LANZHOU, Nov. 29, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Staff member Yang Sheng (R) registers the information of "Jiandu" with her colleague Chang Xiaoli at the Gansu Jiandu Museum in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 26, 2023. "Jiandu" are the bamboo and wooden slips on which ancient Chinese people wrote using ink and brushes before the invention of paper. The Gansu Jiandu Museum is China's only provincial-level museum focusing on bamboo and wooden slips. It has a collection of nearly 40,000 such slips dating back to the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.) and Western Jin Dynasty (265-317), and it also houses more than 10,000 other artifacts, including paper, textiles, woodenware, lacquerware and ironware. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)

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CHINA-GANSU-BAMBOO AND WOODEN SLIPS-MUSEUM (CN)

(231129) -- LANZHOU, Nov. 29, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Staff members of the Gansu Jiandu Museum conduct routine check in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 26, 2023. "Jiandu" are the bamboo and wooden slips on which ancient Chinese people wrote using ink and brushes before the invention of paper. The Gansu Jiandu Museum is China's only provincial-level museum focusing on bamboo and wooden slips. It has a collection of nearly 40,000 such slips dating back to the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.) and Western Jin Dynasty (265-317), and it also houses more than 10,000 other artifacts, including paper, textiles, woodenware, lacquerware and ironware. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)

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CHINA-GANSU-BAMBOO AND WOODEN SLIPS-MUSEUM (CN)

(231129) -- LANZHOU, Nov. 29, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Staff member Yang Sheng checks the condition of preserved "Jiandu" at the warehouse of the Gansu Jiandu Museum in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 26, 2023. "Jiandu" are the bamboo and wooden slips on which ancient Chinese people wrote using ink and brushes before the invention of paper. The Gansu Jiandu Museum is China's only provincial-level museum focusing on bamboo and wooden slips. It has a collection of nearly 40,000 such slips dating back to the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.) and Western Jin Dynasty (265-317), and it also houses more than 10,000 other artifacts, including paper, textiles, woodenware, lacquerware and ironware. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)

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CHINA-GANSU-BAMBOO AND WOODEN SLIPS-MUSEUM (CN)

(231129) -- LANZHOU, Nov. 29, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Students sign signatures after visiting the Gansu Jiandu Museum in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 25, 2023. "Jiandu" are the bamboo and wooden slips on which ancient Chinese people wrote using ink and brushes before the invention of paper. The Gansu Jiandu Museum is China's only provincial-level museum focusing on bamboo and wooden slips. It has a collection of nearly 40,000 such slips dating back to the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.) and Western Jin Dynasty (265-317), and it also houses more than 10,000 other artifacts, including paper, textiles, woodenware, lacquerware and ironware. (Xinhua/Wang Yuguo)

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Ancient inscription shows Chinese people's environmental protection efforts 2,000 years ago

STORY: Ancient inscription shows Chinese people's environmental protection efforts 2,000 years ago DATELINE: June 6, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:02 LOCATION: LANZHOU, China CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of the inscription 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): XIAO CONGLI, Research director, Bamboo Slip Museum of Gansu Province STORYLINE: Sunday marked World Environment Day, an annual occasion to foster environmental awareness and prompt action since 1973. Thousands of years before the day was celebrated worldwide, ancient Chinese people had made great efforts to protect the environment and live harmoniously with nature. The Doctrine of Seasons, an inscription showing how ancient Chinese people lived and worked according to changes of climate and phenology, is being displayed at Gansu Jiandu Museum in northwest China. The inscription was discovered at an ancient courier station from the Han Dynasty (202 B.C.- A.D. 220), ruins of which are located in Dunhuang city of Gansu Province. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): XIAO CONGL