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A manuscript titled 《吳王夫差起師伐越》, which parallels the Tsinghua manuscript 《越公其事》, hence confirming the authenticity of the latter corpus, which has been unfortunately looted and purchased by Tsinghua University in 2008 to preserve it.
Download QR code; Print/export ... Pages in category "Chinese manuscripts" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. ... List of ancient Chinese ...
The largest proportion of the manuscripts are written in Chinese, both Classical and, to a lesser extent, vernacular Chinese. Most manuscripts, including Buddhist texts, are written in Kaishu or 'regular script', while others are written in the cursive Xingshu or 'running script'. An unusual feature of the Dunhuang manuscripts dating from the ...
The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.
Old Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese. [a] The earliest examples of Chinese are divinatory inscriptions on oracle bones from around 1250 BC, in the Late Shang period. Bronze inscriptions became plentiful during the following Zhou dynasty.
The large size of the collection and the significance of the texts for scholarship make it one of the most important discoveries of early Chinese texts. The manuscripts have been published in nine volumes by the Shanghai Museum starting in 2001, under the supervision of Ma Chengyuan (Chinese: 馬承源). [1]
The Book of Documents (Chinese: 書經; pinyin: Shūjīng; Wade–Giles: Shu King) or the Classic of History, [a] is one of the Five Classics of ancient Chinese literature. It is a collection of rhetorical prose attributed to figures of ancient China, and served as the foundation of Chinese political philosophy for over two millennia.
Many early Chinese texts were composed before the End of the Han dynasty in 220 CE. They involved numerous Confucian classics , such as the Four Books and Five Classics , alongside poetry, dictionaries, histories and surveys on topics such as mathematics, astronomy, music and medicine, among others.