NPM director Chin Hsiao-yi states: "This exhibit uses artifacts as the physical manifestation of a culture. It enables the visitor to gain a much clearer understanding of the Chinese culture of 2,000 years ago." One will learn from this exhibit, for example, that people used to write on thin bamboo slips, and that they sealed their bamboo letters in mud.
「故宮《漢代文物大展》，是以文物為表現，文化為內涵，讓觀眾對兩千年前的中華文化有更深刻的認識」，故宮博物院院長秦孝儀指出，例如古人在竹簡上書寫，將信件以泥封箋。