bamboo and wood
China
Source: Staack, Thies (2023), ‘Bindings of Ancient Chinese Bamboo and Wood Scrolls’, in Jörg Quenzer (ed.), Exploring Written Artefacts: Objects, Methods, and Concepts (Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 25), Berlin: De Gruyter, 39–54.
Recipe Details
Ingredients
bamboo, wood
Preparation Steps
The writing support was manufactured by cutting, splitting, or sawing raw materials into narrow slips (jian) or wider tablets (du). Preparation involved polishing and drying in the air or over fire (p. 46). For bamboo, a process called 'killing the green' (shaqing) was used to make the material durable and suitable for ink application (p. 46). Slips were often notched on the right side to secure binding strings (p. 48).
Original Recipe Text
The writing support was manufactured by cutting, splitting, or sawing raw materials into narrow slips (jian) or wider tablets (du). Preparation involved polishing and drying in the air or over fire (p. 46). For bamboo, a process called 'killing the green' (shaqing) was used to make the material durable and suitable for ink application (p. 46). Slips were often notched on the right side to secure binding strings (p. 48).
Evidence
"Before paper gradually became the standard writing support during the third and fourth centuries CE, manuscripts in the area we today know as China were produced mainly from bamboo or wood."
Remarks
The oldest bamboo manuscripts date to the late fifth century BCE (p. 40). Bamboo was less suitable for wide tablets due to natural curvature (p. 42). Standard scrolls (ce) consisted of uniform narrow pieces between 13 and 75 cm in length (p. 44).
Scientific Analysis
Analytical Techniques
close observation
Certainty Level
Confirmed
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
paper
Paper Typebamboo and wood
RegionChina
Approx. Year-550
Source Information
AuthorStaack, Thies
Collectiontomb of Marquis Yi of the state of Zeng
Language
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