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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
by 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 agoCan 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 agoIt'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 agoThanks! 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