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Someone commented on the site that it's a 17th century reproduction.

• yeukhon 10y ago
  Also while those are Han, the language is sophisticated to regular Chinese readers. I can't even make sense of the words (individually yes) as a native Chinese speaker. A far as paper writing, I found [1] which said roughly 100 A.D. some paper production began. [1]: http://www.chinaheritagequarterly.org/tien-hsia.php?searchterm=020_chinese_book.inc&issue=020 http://www.chinaheritagequarterly.org/tien-hsia.php?searchte...
  • gus_massa 10y ago
    Can you make an annotated version? Nothing fancy, if you add the translation with paintbrush and host it in imgur, I'll be completely happy.
    • y2kenny 10y ago
      It's traditional chinese but it's a challenge. This is my best guess: http://imgur.com/a/rnXPW http://imgur.com/a/rnXPW Looks like they were using colour as variable/labels.
      • gus_massa 10y ago
        Thanks! I replied in my other comment, because I made a previous explanation attempt but after looking at your translation I think that it was wrong and I wanted to highlight the differences. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13953495 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13953495