Silk manuscripts give hope to academia
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Silk manuscripts give hope to academia

China Daily  

Parts of the Zidanku manuscripts describe the relationship between humans and heaven with writings and pictures of gods from the Warring States Period. Archaeologist Lothar von Falkenhausen at the University of California, Los Angeles, says although the manuscripts have been in the US for eight decades, they have only been seen by the people over two days — once in 1968 and the other in 1990. "The manuscripts should be returned to China's academia as soon as possible, since almost all scholars who can understand and study the manuscripts are in China," he adds. Li also mentions the tomb that yielded the Zidanku manuscripts was re-excavated by the Hunan Museum in 1973, uncovering another big discovery of a silk painting depicting a man riding a dragon. Li says silk manuscripts have only been found in the Zidanku tomb and the Western Han Dynasty Mawangdui tombs in Changsha.

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The box cover that serves as evidence of the Zidanku silk manuscripts' circulation in the United States is presented at a handover ceremony in Qingdao, Shandong province, on June 20. In 1942, a long-sealed tomb from the Warring States Period in the Zidanku area on the outskirts of Changsha, Hunan province, was plundered by grave robbers who stole the earliest …

Silk manuscripts give hope to academia
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China Daily  

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Silk manuscripts give hope to academia
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