2025 May Changsha

A bridge across Xiang river Minolta SRT101 with Helios44m-4 58/f2, Fujifilm 400 Color Negative Film

different day, different view/Cloudy Minolta SRT101 with Helios44m-4 58/f2, Fujifilm 400 Color Negative Film

I took a visit in Changsha during the days from May 6 to May 9. The place presented in photos above was near the hotel I have checked in. I captured these photos while walking along the riverside. The first one took in the last day in Changsha; and the second one was earlier than it: Day two I suppose.

Liye Qin bamboo slips（里耶秦简） Minolta SRT101 with Helios44m-4 58/f2, Fujifilm 400 Color Negative Film

Honour guard pottery figure（出行仪仗俑-长沙金盆岭晋墓） Minolta SRT101 with Helios44m-4 58/f2, Fujifilm 400 Color Negative Film

Ding cauldron with human faces and animal patterns（大禾人面兽纹鼎） Minolta SRT101 with Helios44m-4 58/f2, Fujifilm 400 Color Negative Film

Day two in Changsha, I went to the provencial museum, where exhibiting relics excavated in the region mainly around Hunan; and part of them was borrowed from other adjacent provences’ museums.

There are comments quoted from my friend: “These three things are familiar to me. All of them are covered by the compulsory modules of my major¹ if they are not covered by my interest.

“In my recollection, most of Liye Qin bamboo slips record the administrative and legal texts from the late domination of King Zheng of Qin state to the end of Qin dynasty, spanning about 14 years. The number of slips are massive. The written style is small seal script, and quite different from the standard font collected in Shuowenjiezi(《说文解字》) written in Later Han dynasty.

(to be continued)