Which parts of the Laozi are represented?

A total of about 800 bamboo strips were found at the Guodian site, of which 71 contain portions of the Laozi. (The other texts from the tomb, mostly previously unknown Daoist and Confucian texts, are also contained in the published book.)

No book titles are indicated on the bamboo strips themselves, but the strips whose content overlaps the received Laozi text belong to three sets (designated jia3, yi3, and bing3). In all, about 40% of the received Laozi text is represented; since the tomb had been previously robbed, there is no way of knowing how much more was originally present. Although the texts recognizably match the received Laozi, the order of chapters is entirely different, and parts of some chapters are separated from each other. The table below summarizes the contents of the three sets:

Summary of the Guodian Laozi

group (zu3)	description	Laozi chapters represented (a, b, c = beginning, middle, end)
jia3	39 strips, 32.3 cm long	19, 66, 46bc, 30ab, 15, 64c, 37, 63, 2, 32,25, 5c, 16a, 64a, 56, 57, 55, 44, 40, 9
yi3	18 strips, 30.6 cm long	59, 48a, 20a, 13, 41, 52b, 45, 54
bing3	14 strips, 26.5 cm long	17, 18, 35, 31bc, 64c