When paper was not invented, the wise Chinese recorded the story on the bamboo jane, and before the bamboo jane was "invented", there was the oracle bone. In ancient times around two thousand years ago, history was recorded on bamboo jane, and the preservation of bamboo jane was actually easier than paper, but the ancients did not attach great importance to bamboo jane. Although bamboo is easy to preserve, it is not easy to store, because bamboo is much heavier than paper, and the text that can be recorded on it is relatively small, and it is more troublesome to record a longer matter. Ancient people are still very good at using bamboo Jane, many unused bamboo Jane they will use to make firewood, make "toilet paper", so many ancient bamboo Jane can detect the feces of the ancients.
Ancient books of the pre-Qin Dynasty were discovered, and history was reproduced
However, there are very few bamboo jian left in the pre-Qin period, because there was a book burning pit Confucian operation in history. The bamboo janes that can be left behind are all very precious historical materials and very important research objects. In Liye, Hunan, the construction team found an ancient well, and the things in the ancient well were very special. This ancient well attracted many archaeologists, archaeologists came to this ancient well, excavated the artifacts inside, and the results of these artifacts surprised the archaeologists. These seemingly "miscellaneous" artifacts are actually very important ancient books, and archaeologists have spent months to "salvage" these artifacts from the well.
These cultural relics are the famous Liye Qinjian, which has a total of more than 36,000 pieces, and has been in this ancient well for more than 2,000 years. These ancient books are all ancient books of the pre-Qin period and record many things that are not in history. Liye Qinjian appeared in Liye, and part of the history is related to Liye, not only the "county chronicle" of more than 2,000 years ago, but also the record of the change of law in the Spring and Autumn Period. Qin Jian recorded the life of the ancient Liye residents, which is undoubtedly a big discovery for archaeologists, through this record, archaeologists can know the development of the Qin State, the rule of society, and the development of social interpersonal relations, such as the marriage of local residents.
The world's oldest multiplication recipe, documenting the "disappearing" past
However, the most important discovery in The Riye Qin Jian is not who married whom, but a "multiplication trick". Today's primary school students basically recite the nine-nine multiplication table, but who invented the nine-nine multiplication table? The earliest multiplication recipe came from one of the Riye Qin Jian. There are some differences between the multiplication tips recorded in the Riye Qin Jian and today's multiplication tips, but the results are the same, and the multiplication tips in the Riye Qin Jian started from "nine nine eighty-one", which is a little different from our today's multiplication tips from the beginning. Archaeologists speculate that the multiplication trick has existed for at least three thousand years, but the multiplication trick in the Current Liye Qin Jian is the earliest we have discovered.
In the Liye Qin Jian also recorded a lot of history before the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shi Huang unified the thinking, legislation, system, etc. of the whole country in order to unify the world, which led to the destruction of many theories and ideas that were contrary to it. The emergence of this history helps archaeologists to study the cultural history of the pre-Qin period, helps to fill the gap in Chinese history, and is a very important historical material. For example, in Liye Qinjian, it is also recorded that during the reign of Qin Shi Huang, there was also a slave trade, and the owner of Liye Qinjian was neither a slave nor a nobleman who could buy slaves, but he quietly recorded all this.
Chinese history shocked Western scholars
Liye Qinjian has more than 200,000 words, and once the discovery of Liye Qinjian was published, it caused a sensation in the West, and many Western scholars even shouted: This is absolutely impossible! China is one of the world's four major ancient civilizations and has a very long history, and it is not surprising that there is such a discovery. There are many Western countries that have not yet appeared in the period of the birth of Liye Qinjian, and the history of many modern Western countries is only one hundred years. China has a long history, but archaeologists dare not say that they are the oldest country in the world, but China's history must be the most clearly documented in the world, because since more than two thousand years ago, Chinese began to write the history of their own country.