Are Dunhuang Han bamboo slips wooden or bamboo?

Dunhuang Han bamboo slips are wooden slips. The Han bamboo slips of Maquanwan in Dunhuang were discovered at the beacon tower of Maquanwan in the west of Xiaofang, Dunhuang in June 1979. They are the ruins of the Great Wall built in the Han Dynasty to contain the Huns, and there are *** 12 17 pieces.

The characteristics of Dunhuang Han bamboo slips are mostly wooden slips, but there are also a few bamboo slips. These bamboo slips have various shapes, such as notes, symbols, grasping, signing, sealing, tailoring and so on. The types of documents are imperial edicts, decrees, letters, vouchers, seals, almanac, divination books, technical books, and ninety-nine arithmetic.

The earliest chronological bamboo slips were in the third year of the Western Han Dynasty in 73 BC, and the latest chronological bamboo slips were in the second year of Wang Mang's founding in 2 1 AD. Most of them have been lost, and only a few of them can be included in a book, which covers Yumenguan and its frontier defense, stationing troops and fields, ethnic relations and the relationship between the new Han Dynasty and the western regions from the end of the Western Han Dynasty to Wang Mang.