Starting from the slip, decipher the Silk Road; Take the simple slip as a guide to explore the light of civilization. At 20:00 on May 12th, CCTV's large-scale cultural innovation program "Exploring China in a Simplified Manner" was broadcast on CCTV Comprehensive Channel (CCTV-1), recreating the grand scene of the ancient Silk Road with two episodes, leading the audience into the only archaeological excavation of the Han Dynasty post station site so far - Hanging Spring, to explore the history and legend of the thousand-year-old Silk Road.
"Exploring China" was broadcast on CCTV at 8 p.m. on May 12.
"The envoys look at each other on the road, and the business travel is endless" is the grand occasion of the ancient Silk Road written by Sima Qian. In the 90s of the 20th century, the excavation of the Hanging Spring Han Jian made this prosperous scene reappear.
Located in Dunhuang City, Gansu Province, Hanging Spring is a large-scale official post station on the ancient Silk Road, which has a history of more than 2,000 years, and the site of the post station was first discovered in 1987, which is the most complete and preserved in the mainland so far, and the Han Dynasty post institution with the most unearthed cultural relics. According to the study of the brief texts that have been collated, the establishment of the Hanging Spring Residence may be about 37 people, the standing carriage is between 10 and 15 times, the monthly food consumption is more than 7,100 stones, and the maximum time to receive a total of 1,074 foreign guests from the Khotanese mission. In 2014, the Silk Road: The Road Network of the Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor, which includes the site of Hanging Springs, became a World Heritage Site.
Experts and professors knocked on the door of the ancient Silk Road post station together.
There are more than 23,000 pieces of Hanging Spring Han Jane unearthed at the site of Hanging Spring. As the real-time archives and original records of the Silk Road of the Two Han Dynasty, these Han Janes tell the vivid past of the ancient Silk Road, and corroborate each other with the historical records, helping future generations to see the history and civilization of the ancient Silk Road through the pen and ink. On the evening of May 12, the host Long Yang and Li Bo, a professor at the School of Literature of Nanjing Normal University, Zheng Binglin, director of the Institute of Dunhuang Studies of Lanzhou University, and He Shuangquan, a researcher at the Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, jointly knocked on the door of the ancient Silk Road post station that had been sealed for more than 2,000 years, shared the vivid details of the Han Dynasty post system and traffic, and released 5 "timing Janes" for the first time.
The cultural exchanges between the Central Plains and the Western Regions have a long history, but before the discovery of the Hanging Spring Site, there has never been an archaeological discovery of a post station. Did these post offices really exist to deliver official documents and receive missions? Where is the "road" of the ancient Silk Road? Hanging Spring Han Jian unveils a historical mystery for us - the Hanging Spring Mileage Slip records the mileage between the places and places along the way from Wuwei to Dunhuang, which complements and corroborates each other with the Juyan Mileage Slip, and jointly outlines the driving route from Dunhuang to the west, which proves the existence and specific direction of the ancient Silk Road, and provides important material support for the "Silk Road" of China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in 2014.
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The grassroots officials of the Han Dynasty were collectively referred to as "Sifu". In the more than 200 years recorded in the Hanging Spring Han Jian, "Hong" was the longest-serving position of the husband, and there are more than 70 records related to him in the Hanging Spring Han Slip that has been collated. This issue of "Exploring China" through the interpretation of "Hong"'s growth experience in Hanging Springs, showing the perseverance of generations of Sifu in Hanging Springs, conveying that "some people are born to go further; Some people are born to guard this road". The program also reproduces important historical events such as the princess and the princess, the surrender of the Xiongnu to the Han Dynasty and the establishment of the Western Regions Protectorate, vividly presenting the precious details on the ancient Silk Road.
Horses are an important means of transportation for the transmission of official documents and messengers in Hanging Springs, why do these horses have "household registration"? What do their "hukou books" look like? The program combines the true records of the name of the horse in the Hanging Spring Han Jian, leading the audience to immerse themselves in the strict management system of the Hanging Spring Zhizhong Horse and feel the importance of the Han Dynasty to Ma Zheng.
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In addition, the researchers found more than 20 paperwork records on timekeeping methods. The program exclusively released 5 Hanging Spring Timing Brief Texts, and combined with the timing principle of the ancient Sinking Arrow Copper Leak, cracked the time management wisdom recorded on the Hanging Spring Han Jian, and exclusively revealed the timekeeping method more than 2,000 years ago. (Text/New Gansu Gansu Daily reporter Shi Xiuping)
(Source: New Gansu Client)