The Changsha Jiandu Museum () is a history museum located at No. 92 of Baisha Road in

Tianxin District Tianxin District () is one of six urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, China. The district is bordered by Yuetang District of Xiangtan to the south, Yuhua District to the east, Furong and ...

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. It is adjacent to Baisha Well in the south and Tianxin Pavilion in the west. Changsha Jiandu Museum is currently a large-scale modern themed museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, arrangement, study, and exhibition of

bamboo and wooden slips Bamboo and wooden strips ( zh, s=简牍, t=簡牘, first=t, p=jiǎndú) are long, narrow strips of wood or bamboo, each typically holding a single column of several dozen brush-written characters. They were the main media for writing documents ...

(''Jiandu''). It covers an area of .

History

The Changsha Bamboo Slips Museum was founded on 16 November 2002. Construction started in 2000 and completed in late 2003. On November 8, 2007, it was officially opened to the public. In May 2009, it was authorized as a "Second Grade National Museum" () by the

State Administration of Cultural Heritage The National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA; ) is a national bureau managed by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China. It is responsible for the national protection of cultural relics and the regulation of museums. History After ...

. In January 2017, it was designated as a "First Grade National Museum" () by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage.

Collection

The collection of the museum includes bamboo scripts and historical artifacts from the

Han dynasty The Han dynasty was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu. The dynasty was preceded by the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–206 BC ...

(206 BC – 220 AD) and

Three Kingdoms The Three Kingdoms of Cao Wei, Shu Han, and Eastern Wu dominated China from AD 220 to 280 following the end of the Han dynasty. This period was preceded by the Eastern Han dynasty and followed by the Jin dynasty (266–420), Western Jin dyna ...

(220–280) periods: the

Eastern Wu Wu (Chinese language, Chinese: 吳; pinyin: ''Wú''; Middle Chinese *''ŋuo'' < Eastern Han Chinese: ''*ŋuɑ''), known in historiography as Eastern Wu or Sun Wu, was a Dynasties of China, dynastic state of China and one of the three major sta ...

annals (220–280), unearthed in Changsha's Zoumalou in 1996; the bamboo scripts of

Western Han The Han dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu. The dynasty was preceded by the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–206 BC) and a warring int ...

(206 BC – 25 AD), unearthed from J8 Well in Zoumalou in 2003; the bamboo scripts and cultural relics, unearthed from the Yuyang Tomb for one of the queens of

Changsha Kingdom The Changsha Kingdom was a kingdom within the Han Empire of China, located in present-day Hunan and some surrounding areas. The kingdom was founded when Emperor Gaozu granted the territory to his follower Wu Rui in 203 or 202 BC, around the s ...

of the Western Han dynasty in 1993; and a small number of exquisite cultural relics of later periods excavated from Changsha in the 21st century.

Access

The museum does not charge an admission fee. It is closed on Tuesdays, and is open from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm daily.

Transportation

* Take bus No. , 122, 202, 314, 406, or 803 to Chengnan Intersection Bus Stop () * Take bus No. 124 or 901 to the West Door of Tianxin Pavilion Bus Stop ()

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