On June 3, 2002, Zou Boping, the person in charge of the no. 1 well site of the Ancient City Site of Liye, found a strange ink mark on a piece of wood on the banks of the Youshui River in Longshan County, Xiangxi Province. Thus began the excavation and research of Riye Qinjian, which some have called "one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of the 21st century". Zhang Chunlong, a researcher at the Hunan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, was only 37 years old at the time, and he personally experienced the whole process of this archaeological research, and this experience has also become a shining record of his archaeological research.
"The more than 38,000 Qin Dynasty JianMu excavated at the Liye site are archives of Qianling County, Dongting County, Qin Dynasty, and the number and breadth of involvement are another major discovery of Qin Dynasty archaeology after the Terracotta Warriors of Qin Shi Huang." Zhang Chunlong said. According to experts, the most concerned about this batch of Qin Jian is the daily official documents left by the local government more than 2,000 years ago, involving population, fields, property, taxes, warehousing, mail, armaments, justice, medicine, education and other aspects, which reflect the entire process of the Qin Dynasty from its establishment to its collapse, which is extremely precious. The discovery of Liye Qinjian greatly enriched the previously almost blank historical documents of the Qin Dynasty. For example, the world knows the Qin Dynasty's "book and text" policy, but how it was implemented throughout the country at that time is little known to posterity. The "renamed Mufang" unearthed by Liye Qinjian provides specific physical evidence of "book and text", enabling people to more truly restore its original appearance.
Source: Guangming Daily