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Bamboo and wooden strips were the standard writing material during the Han dynasty and excavated examples have been found in abundance. [4] Subsequently, the improvements made to paper by Cai Lun during the Han dynasty began to displace bamboo and wooden strips from mainstream uses, and by the 4th century AD bamboo had been largely abandoned as ...
The Yinqueshan Han Slips (simplified Chinese: 银雀山汉简; traditional Chinese: 銀雀山漢簡; pinyin: Yínquèshān Hànjiǎn) are ancient Chinese writing tablets from the Western Han dynasty, made of bamboo strips and discovered in 1972. The tablets contain many writings that were not previously known or shed new light on the ancient ...
A highly decorative badger hair brush dating to the Ming Dynasty.. The brush (simplified Chinese: 毛笔; traditional Chinese: 毛筆; pinyin: máo bǐ, Korean: 붓 but, Vietnamese: 筆 bút, Japanese: 筆 fude, Ryukyuan: fudi) is the oldest of the Four Treasures, with archaeological evidence dating to Zhou dynasty (1045 BC–256 BC) illustrations on ancient bones.
The traditional Chinese calendar, dating back to the Han dynasty, is a lunisolar calendar that blends solar, lunar, and other cycles for social and agricultural purposes. While modern China primarily uses the Gregorian calendar for official purposes, the traditional calendar remains culturally significant.
Traces of the writing brush, however, were discovered on the Shang jades, and were suggested to be the grounds of the oracle bone inscriptions. [5] The writing brush entered a new stage of development in the Han dynasty. First, it created the decoration craft of engraving and inlaying on the pen-holder.
The Dongguan Hanji (Chinese: 東觀漢記) is a Chinese text that is a history of the Eastern Han dynasty. It was compiled in several stages by different people throughout the Eastern Han period. It was considered the standard history of the Eastern Han until the Tang dynasty when it replaced by the Book of the Later Han.
The regular script (楷書 kǎishū) is the last major calligraphic style to develop, emerging during the Han and Three Kingdoms periods, gaining dominance during the Northern and Southern period (420–589), and ultimately maturing during the Tang dynasty (619–908). It emerged from a neatly written, semi-cursive form of clerical script.
This sub-section is about paper making; for the writing material first used in ancient Egypt, see papyrus.. Paper: Although it is recorded that the Han dynasty (202 BC – AD 220) court eunuch Cai Lun (50 AD – AD 121) invented the pulp papermaking process and established the use of new materials used in making paper, ancient padding and wrapping paper artifacts dating from the 2nd century BC ...