Do Dunhuang Han bamboo slips refer to bamboo slips or wooden slips?

Dunhuang Han bamboo slips refer to wooden slips.

Dunhuang Han bamboo slips are wooden slips of Han Dynasty unearthed in Dunhuang, Gansu Province. The shape of Dunhuang Han bamboo slips is roughly the same as that of Juyan Han bamboo slips, mainly including bamboo slips, bamboo slips, seal characters and seals. There are many official and folk documents in Dunhuang Han bamboo slips.

There are a lot of almanac, arithmetic, medical books, Japanese books and other materials in Dunhuang Han bamboo slips. For example, there are 99 kinds of arithmetic books, medical books, almanac, tables of branches and branches, astronomical phenomena, divination and other records in the Han bamboo slips in Maquanwan. It is worth noting that the calligraphy books and bamboo slips for writing Cang Xie Pian and Ji Jiu Pian were also unearthed, which provided some material objects for understanding the writing education at that time.

The academic value of Dunhuang Han bamboo slips

China has a large number of ancient documents. In the long-term circulation process, due to the influence of copying, engraving or other factors, there are some mistakes and omissions in many handed down documents. The use of Dunhuang bamboo slips is helpful to correct and correct the mistakes and shortcomings of handed down documents, provide strong evidence for some entangled or contradictory records, and have the functions of official history, proof history and supplementary history.

Using Dunhuang bamboo slips, we can understand the social situation of Han Dynasty. Border garrison, defense system and organization and management, bonfire layout and bonfire system, postal institutions and their functions and relations, postal delivery methods, the relationship between Han Dynasty and the western regions, etc. They are all reflected in Dunhuang bamboo slips, many of which are new materials not recorded in the literature.