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Wooden strips recording the reception at Xuanquan Post
Wooden strips recording the reception at Xuanquan Post unearthed from Xuanquan Post site date back to the fifth year of Yuankang Reign of the Han Dynasty(A.D.61)
Eighteen pieces of strips form a complete volume by binding together. The length of each piece is 22cm long and 0.8cm wide. These wooden strips present the fees of reception offered for marquis Changluo (whose name is Chang Hui) at Xuanquan Post.
Xuanquan Post was vital to the contact between the West and the East. As a postal station, Xuanquan Post needed to do the reception towards officials and envoys to or from foreign countries. Therefore, a big amount of reception records were kept at Xuanquan Post thus providing material data for the research of the Silk Road and the relationship between the Han Dynasty and the West Fegions.Among these regimes in the Western Regions, Wusun (a nomadic stepped nationality who lived in Tarim Basin) was the biggest and the Han Dynasty had a close relationship with Wusun Kingdom. Therefore, Xuanquan Post remained abundant material records about Wusun Kingdom.

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