Bamboo and wooden slips
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bamboo-and-wooden-slips-163-3941532
title:
Bamboo and wooden slips
text:
Bamboo and wooden slips are long, narrow strips of wood or bamboo, each typically holding a single column of several dozen brush-written characters. They were the main media for writing documents in China before the widespread introduction of paper during the first two centuries AD. Each strip of wood or bamboo is said to be as long as a chopstick and as wide as two, with space for several tens of visually complex ancient Chinese characters arranged in a single column. For longer texts, many sli
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Classical Chinese writing medium
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_and_wooden_slips
date created:
2009-05-16T01:59:14Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T07:30:25Z
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