Re: Chinese Daily Photos, Videos & News of 2013!!!
This is amazing! It's a shame that so much water was inside these tombs, I hope the water was accumulated there naturally and not the result the subway construction crew's carelessness.
These bamboo slips will help to uncover a part of Chinese heritage that had been lost for centuries. They will reveal to us the wisdom and lives of our ancestors from one of the most illustrious eras of Chinese history (certainly better than China in our own time). A discovery of this scale could be compared to a discovery of a Roman tomb with lost manuscripts from classical scholars for the West.
They also found many ancient manuscripts on bamboo slips in the constructing of the subway in my hometown of Changsha, Hunan. In fact they found so many that they built a museum especially to house bamboo manuscripts because of it! My father works in the archaeology field and I visited this museum not long after it opened.
I hope one day we may recover some other works lost during the tumultuous events of Chinese history, like the Confucian Classic of Music (乐经), and countless moral/political works from the Hundred Schools of Thought (诸子百家) that were destroyed during Qin Shihuang's Burning of Books and Burying of Scholars (焚书坑儒). There is a tremendous amount of wisdom in the classical Chinese literary tradition, especially during the Spring-Autumn/Warring States, when Chinese philosophers were going through a golden age of thought like their contemporaries in Greece.
This is amazing! It's a shame that so much water was inside these tombs, I hope the water was accumulated there naturally and not the result the subway construction crew's carelessness.
These bamboo slips will help to uncover a part of Chinese heritage that had been lost for centuries. They will reveal to us the wisdom and lives of our ancestors from one of the most illustrious eras of Chinese history (certainly better than China in our own time). A discovery of this scale could be compared to a discovery of a Roman tomb with lost manuscripts from classical scholars for the West.
They also found many ancient manuscripts on bamboo slips in the constructing of the subway in my hometown of Changsha, Hunan. In fact they found so many that they built a museum especially to house bamboo manuscripts because of it! My father works in the archaeology field and I visited this museum not long after it opened.
I hope one day we may recover some other works lost during the tumultuous events of Chinese history, like the Confucian Classic of Music (乐经), and countless moral/political works from the Hundred Schools of Thought (诸子百家) that were destroyed during Qin Shihuang's Burning of Books and Burying of Scholars (焚书坑儒). There is a tremendous amount of wisdom in the classical Chinese literary tradition, especially during the Spring-Autumn/Warring States, when Chinese philosophers were going through a golden age of thought like their contemporaries in Greece.
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The best way in my opinion is to teach the younger generation to be more patient and careful on the road when they're taking their driver's education class. Highways and roads are for NOT 'Fast and Furious' drivers. Especially among truck drivers and 18 wheelers are one of the worse violators due to their hectic work.
