简、牍是我国古代文化文字记载于竹、木片上的书写材料，流行于东周至魏晋时期（公元前三世纪—公元三世纪）。
    一九九六年十月，长沙走马楼出土三国孙吴纪年简牍十余万枚，其数量超过了全国各地已出土简牍之总和，其内容涉及吴国的政治、经济、军事、文化、赋税、户籍、司法、职官等方面，为相对贫乏的三国史料作了全面精确的补充。这一发现被评为『96年中国十大考古新发现之一』，是我国二十世纪继甲骨卜辞、敦煌文书之后在古代文献资料方面的又一重大发现，引起了海内外学术界极大关注。

A Introduction of Bamboo Slips from State Wu of the Three Kingdoms in Zoumalou, Changsha

Bamboo and wooden slips are writing materials used mostly during the time from East Zhou Dynasty to WeiJing period.{3 century B.C. --- A.D. 3 century}

On October,1996,more than 100,000 bamboo and wooden slips of the State Wu of the Three Kongdoms chronologically were unearthed in Zoumalou. The amount exceeded the toal sum of slips found in china. Written on them are State Wu's politics,economy,military affairs,culture,taxation,census registration,judiciary,official rankings. The slips replenished relatively poor historical of the Three Kingdoms. The archaeological  finding was classified by experts as one of china's 10 major discoveries in 1996 and, furthermore it's another significant finding in ancient documentary materials after the Dunhuang manuscripts and inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells of the Shang Dynasty found in china in the 20th century. It has aroused great interestof related researchers at home andabroad.