On the morning of the 7th, the Gansu Jiandu Museum opened with over 1000 precious bamboo slips that witnessed the prosperity of the Han Dynasty Silk Road, the vast majority of which were exhibited to the public for the first time after archaeological discoveries. Gansu is a major province of bamboo slips. Since the 20th century, more than 60000 bamboo slips have been unearthed, with Han slips being the majority, accounting for more than half of the total number of unearthed Han slips in the country. However, due to the lack of exhibition venues, most of these precious bamboo relics can only "sleep" in warehouses for academic research. Nowadays, a new museum with a total construction area of over 37000 square meters has been put into use, and a batch of exquisite bamboo slips have emerged from the "deep boudoir" and bloomed with brilliance. Two of the "Mileage Slips" are particularly precious, one of which is the "Juyan Mileage Slips" unearthed in 1974 at the Pochengzi Site in Ejina Banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It records in detail the names and intervals of 20 post stations from the Han Dynasty capital Chang'an to Zhangye County. The other one is the "Hanging Spring Mileage Jian" unearthed at the Dunhuang Hanging Spring Site in 1990, which records detailed information about 12 post houses from Wuwei County to Dunhuang County in the Hexi Corridor area. Xiao Congli, Director of the Organization and Research Department of Gansu Jiandu Museum, said that these two mileage slips "relay" outlined the specific route directions and important nodes of the eastern section of the Han Dynasty Silk Road, Chang'an to Dunhuang. As an important empirical material, the "Silk Road: The Road Network of Chang'an Tianshan Corridor" was successfully applied for World Heritage in 2014. In the exhibition hall, the "Kangju King Messenger Booklet" consisting of 7 Han slips has a total length of 293 words, recording the story of the Kangju Kingdom envoys from the Western Regions who arrived at Dunhuang with their camels. Another Han bamboo slip tells the story of the King of Kucha and his wife receiving high-level reception while passing through the Dunhuang Hanging Spring. There is also one "Fu Tu Jian" indicating that Buddhism spread and developed in Dunhuang as early as the early Eastern Han Dynasty. These vivid contents written on Han bamboo slips are precious, filling many blind spots in historical records and reproducing the prosperity of the Han Dynasty's border defense system and the Silk Road, "said Zhu Jianjun, director of the Gansu Bamboo Slips Museum. It is reported that starting from September 9th, the Gansu Bamboo Slips Museum will officially open to the public. The exhibition hall will have four major exhibitions: "Bamboo Slips Era", "Brief Introduction to the Silk Road", "Frontier Household", and "Books on Bamboo Slips and Silk". Through physical display, textual interpretation, image interaction, and scene restoration, the museum will comprehensively and vividly showcase the Silk Road culture and Chinese wisdom in Gansu Bamboo Slips to the public. (New News Agency)