There are 28 kinds of silk books unearthed from Mawangdui No.3 Tomb in Changsha, with a total of120,000 words, all of which are seriously damaged. According to the classification of Han Shu Yi Wen Zhi, there are six kinds of art: Zhouyi, funeral paintings, spring and autumn stories and letters of the Warring States period. Laozi (with four lost books), nine main drawings, and The Book of the Emperor and Laozi (with four lost books). There are three kinds of art books: Bundesliga, B and C. Mathematical arts include yin and yang and five elements of seal script, yin and yang and five elements of official script, five-star occupation, miscellaneous occupation of astronomy and meteorology, comet diagram, tourist occupation, wooden man occupation, Zuo Fu, god diagram, fortification diagram, garden sleeping diagram and fragrant horse sutra. There are prescriptions for 52 diseases (4 missing), fetal delivery chart, health chart, miscellaneous disease therapy formula and guidance chart (2 missing), among which Fifty-two Prescriptions for Diseases is the oldest medical book found in China. There are also three maps: the topographic map of southern Changsha, the garrison map and the city map.

The content of silk books involves politics, military affairs, ideology, culture and science from the Warring States Period to the early Western Han Dynasty, which has important academic value and can be used as the basis for sorting out ancient books handed down from generation to generation. It is not only the first-hand data for studying history, but also provides a valuable basis for studying calligraphy and its evolution and development in Han Dynasty. For example, in the first and second editions of Laozi, moral classics come first, Taoist classics come last, and the order is opposite. Lost articles are precious materials for studying Confucianism and early Han thought. Another silk book similar to the Warring States Policy, about 60% of which is not included in the Warring States Policy, is now named Letters of the Warring States Period, which is an important historical material for studying the struggle to unify Lian Heng in the middle of the Warring States Period. Mawangdui silk book is the most important discovery of bamboo and silk literature in Han Dynasty.