Record of reading and collating the Guodian Chu Bamboo Slips

Author: Li Ling
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Publish Date: 2002-03-01
Features: Around 500 BC, China was an era of "the decline of rites and the collapse of music." At that time, there were two famous thinkers: Laozi and Confucius. Their later followers provided many interpretations of their teachings, leaving behind many mysteries that have become part of our traditional understanding. The importance of the Guodian Chu Manuscripts lies in the fact that they not only unearthed the Warring States period manuscript of the Tao Te Ching but also discovered various bamboo slips recording the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples, bringing us much closer to these two great sages. If we compare ancient books to a dragon hidden in the clouds, the ancient books since the Song and Yuan dynasties are its tail, the Dunhuang discoveries are its body, and then the current findings are its neck. We are not far from the day when we can see the dragon's head.