However, references in earlier texts surviving on other media make it clear that some precursor of these Warring States period bamboo slips was in use as early as the late Shang period (from about 1250 BC).
The earliest surviving examples of wood or bamboo slips date from the 5th century BC during the Warring States period. (Silk was occasionally used, for example in the Chu Silk Manuscript, but was prohibitively expensive for most documents.) An 18th-century edition of The Art of War made with bamboo stripsīamboo and wooden slips ( simplified Chinese: 简牍 traditional Chinese: 簡牘 pinyin: jiǎndú) were the main media for writing documents in China before the widespread introduction of paper during the first two centuries AD.
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