Old Chinese
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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. The earliest examples of Chinese are divinatory i
Inscription on the Kang Hou gui (late 11th century BC)
Shang dynasty oracle bone script on an ox scapula
Guodian Chu Slips (c. 300 BC) with transcriptions in modern characters
Eastern Han Chinese
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Eastern Han Chinese, or Later Han Chinese, is the stage of the Chinese language attested in poetry and glosses from the Eastern Han period. It is considered an intermediate stage between Old Chinese a
Provinces of the Han dynasty c. 189 AD
CMOC Treasures of Ancient China exhibit painted figure of a cavalryman, horse detail