The Liye Ancient Town (Qin Slips) Museum is located in Longshan County, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan Province. In 2002, over 38,000 bamboo slips from the Qin Dynasty were unearthed from the No. 1 well of the Liye Ancient Town Site, with the inscribed characters on the slips exceeding 200,000. Considered another important finding in Qin Dynasty archaeology following the Terracotta Warriors, these slips mainly consist of government documents from the Qianling County in Dongting Prefecture, spanning from the year before the nation's unification to the year before the fall of the Qin Dynasty. The contents cover demographics, production, taxation, postal services, judiciary and medicine, among others, providing a complete picture of the governance of Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor, and the functioning of grassroots administrative systems.

The Liye Ancient Town (Qin Slips) Museum opened in 2010, covering an area of 36,000 square meters. The museum houses over 8,000 cultural relics, with more than 600 precious artifacts such as bronze ware, pottery, and slips currently on display. Among them, the museum's bamboo slips—including the "Qianling County in Dongting Prefecture," "Nine-by-Nine Multiplication Table," and "Qianling Postal System for Dongting"—are classified as national treasures.

The digital interactive experience zone has integrated cutting-edge technologies such as VR, AR, and AI to create immersive viewing scenarios, bringing the Qin Dynasty civilization from two millennia ago to life.

Information:

Opening hours: Tuesday – Sunday; 9:00-17:00 (last entry at 16:30)
          Closed on Monday except statutory holidays
Location: No. 337, Qincheng Road, Liye Town, Longshan County, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture

Chinese sources: hunantoday; official website of the Liye Qin Slips Museum