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Close-up of a calligraphy tablet featuring elegant Chinese characters in black ink, attributed to Song Dynasty calligrapher Huang Tingjian, with red seal stamps on the left. Scapulimancy Oracle fragment Fragment of an oracle bone from the Shang Dynasty, with rows of early Chinese characters engraved on its surface, from Anyang, Henan province, China. Example of dazhuan from a bronze vessel, 779 bc, Zhou dynasty; in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan. Ink rubbing of a lishu inscription on the stele of Shichen, ad 169, Han dynasty; in the collection of Wan-go H.C. Weng, New York City. Oracle bone inscriptions from the village of Hsiao-t'un, Shang dynasty, 14th or 12th century bc Zhenshu calligraphy
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Chinese calligraphy
An estimated 1.34 billion people around the world use the Chinese alphabet—also known...
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Scapulimancy
Ancient Chinese writing adorning a bovine scapula used for divination during the...
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Oracle fragment
A fragment of an oracle bone used in divination during the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1918 (18.56.71), www.metmuseum.org
Shang dynasty writing
Oracle bone engraved with an early example of Chinese writing, Shang dynasty (c....
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Example of dazhuan from a bronze vessel, 779 bc,...
Courtesy of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
Ink rubbing of a lishu inscription on the stele of Shichen, ad...
Courtesy of Wan-go H.C. Weng, New York
Oracle bone inscriptions from the village of Hsiao-t'un, Shang dynasty, 14th or 12th...
By permission of the Syndics of the Cambridge University Library
Zhenshu calligraphy
Zhenshu (“regular style”) calligraphy, written by the emperor Huizong (reigned 1100–1125/26),...
Courtesy of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
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