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Gansu Jiandu Museum: a large number of "stored" precious cultural relics will be awakened

Summary: The groundbreaking ceremony of the construction projectof Gansu Jiandu documentation museum was held in Lanzhouon 31st July. The museum, which includes one floorunderground and four-story main building above ground,is scheduled to be completed and open to

The groundbreaking ceremony of the construction project
of Gansu Jiandu documentation museum was held in Lanzhou
on 31st July. The museum, which includes one floor
underground and four-story main building above ground,
is scheduled to be completed and open to the public in
2021. At that time, a large number of precious cultural
relics "hidden in the storage" in Gansu, the hometow n of
Han bamboo slips, will be effectively displayed and properly
utilized.
Bamboo slips are the precious historical and cultural heritage
of the Chinese nation. Gansu bamboo slips have the
characteristics of the earliest unearthed time, the greatest
influence at home and abroad, the richest content with the
strongest discipline construction and most research
achievements. It is the most symbolic cultural relic
resource and important cultural symbol in Gansu.
Ma Yuping, Director of the Gansu Provincial Administrator
of Cultural Heritage, said that since Stein first excavated
bamboo slips in Dunhuang in 1907, more than 30 batches
of over 80,000 bamboo slips have been unearthed in
Gansu in more than a hundred years. Gansu bamboo
slips are not only an encyclopedia in medieval China, but
also a physical evidence of the prosperity of the ancient
Silk Road, which is of great historical, scientific and artistic
value. Gansu bamboo slips mainly include Han bamboo
slips with the total amount of more than 70,000, accounting
for more than 80% of the total unearthed in the coun -
try, known as the "hometown of Han bamboo slips".

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