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Chinanews, Wuhan, Dec. 7 – Ever since the No.1 Western Han Dynasty (206 BC – AD 25) tomb was unearthed1 in Xiejiaqiao in Jingzhou of Hubei Province, the tomb owner’s identity had always remained a mystery to archeologists. On Thursday, archeologists discovered some bamboo slips (used for writing on in ancient times) inside the tomb which has helped them to find the answer, Changjiang Times reported.
During the excavation2, archeologists found 208 bamboo slips inside the tomb. The bamboo slips are said to be the best-preserved bamboo slips that archeologists have found so far. After two weeks’ excavation, archeologists found 193 burial articles. The bamboo slips did not provide any information about the tomb owner’s husband, nor did they contain any information about the tomb owner’s age. At the Jingzhou Museum, this reporter saw that the bamboo slips measured 20 centimeters long and about one centimeter wide. Every bamboo slip contained 4-5 characters. Most of the characters written on the slips are in clerical writing style, with some written in the seal scripts. The characters vary greatly in form from today’s characters and some of the characters need to be studied further, said Wang Mingqin, curator of Jingzhou Museum. It is these bamboo slips that disclosed the tomb owner’s identity. Archeologists told this reporter that the bamboo slips contained basically two things – one, called Qian Ce in Chinese, listed down the articles buried inside the tomb and the other, called Gaodishu, recorded the basic information about the tomb owner. According to folk legend, Gaodishu supplied the King of Hell with the basic information of a dead person. “It is this ‘Gaodishu’ that told us who the tomb owner was,” said Wang. According to the information written on the bamboo slips, the tomb owner was buried on November 28, AD 183. The tomb owner was a woman. Her name was Hui. She had four sons, all with the titles of nobility. The bamboo slips are in fairly good condition although they had existed for more than 2,000 years. This was rarely seen in history, said Liu Deyin, the Jinzhou Museum deputy curator.
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