Bamboo Slips China ｜ Dialogue with Time and Space, Witness the Prosperity of Silk Road in Hanging Spring Bamboo Slips.

　　[Global Network reporter Xu Na] Looking far away, two thousand years ago, there was an important hub on the Silk Road, like a beautiful flower knot pulled out in the middle of a long silk scarf, which was particularly eye-catching. It was the ancient post station site-Xuanquanjia, which was rated as a world cultural heritage.

　　On July 30th, the theme activity of "Bamboo Slips and China" went into the ruins of Xuanquanjia. While experiencing the wooden slips of the Han Dynasty as an important writing carrier of Chinese culture at close range, we also learned that Xuanquanjia was an important post station on the Silk Road, and its large number of cultural relics witnessed the prosperity of economic and trade exchanges between China and the West on the Silk Road, and we also saw the historical scenes of past people's lives from a large number of bamboo slips and documents.

　　The reporter learned that the Hanging Spring House was built around the sixth year of Yuan Ding, the Emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, and it was a post office. Located on the key road, looking at Jiuquan in the east and Dunhuang in the west, it once shouldered the historical responsibility of welcoming delivery, transmitting information and communicating with China and foreign countries. A large number of cultural relics and various types of bamboo slips unearthed from the site completely recorded the arduous operation of the Silk Road in the Hexi Corridor in the Han Dynasty, and a large number of horse bones and silk remnants in the western regions witnessed the prosperity of the Silk Road.

　　It is reported that the Hanging Spring House is a post site recorded in the history of China and confirmed for the first time by archaeological excavation. From 1990 to 1992, Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology conducted a comprehensive excavation of the site, with an archaeological excavation area of 4,675 square meters, including docks, stables, houses and ancient post roads. The unearthed cultural relics included more than 35,000 bamboo slips, 10 silk books, 10 paper documents, silk fabrics, crops and livestock bones, totaling more than 70,000 pieces. A large number of bamboo slips provide rich physical materials for the study of politics, economy, military affairs, diplomacy, transportation, postal service, nationality, culture and customs in the Western Han Dynasty, and are of great cultural value.

　　On June 22nd, 2014, at the 38th World Heritage Conference, the Xuanquanjia site, as an important node site on the Silk Road, was officially listed in the World Cultural Heritage List of "Chang 'an-Tianshan Corridor Road Network".

　　Rong Hongmei of Dunhuang Museum told reporters that the bamboo slips unearthed from this site truly recorded the operation of the Silk Road, the daily operation of the delivery houses and the delivery of postal books two thousand years ago. These bamboo slips are the basis for confirming the real existence of the road network of Chang 'an Tianshan Corridor on the Silk Road, and also play an important role in the application for the World Heritage.

　　People and things are the flesh and blood of history. The short stories in bamboo slips reflect the big history, put them in the historical time and space, return to the historical scene, shake hands with time and space, and feel the cultural heritage and the breath of life. Rong Hongmei further said that the ancients were very wise, and the choice of the location of the post station, the design and ingenious thinking in the unearthed cultural relics, and the exchange of information in the correspondence all inspired us.