Bamboos slip a book form, it is record and paint a text, image, or other specific symbols on these pre-processed bamboo chip.

Bamboo slip source.

An early form of writing is carved on the bones and the Zhong Ding, due to the limitations of the material, it is difficult to widely disseminated, until the Shang Dynasty, the master text is still only the upper class people, which greatly limits the spread of cultural and ideological, this situation can be changed with bamboo slip appearance.
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