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China The Museum
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Anyang (安阳) in Henan Province (河南), where the legendary common ancestor of Han Chinese, Yellow Emperor, was believed to be born, educated and began his great business of establishing a Chinese nation some 5000 years ago, was the cradle of Chinese written language, the home to carapace bone script and the birthplace of I Ching. On November 16, 2009, the newly structured National Museum of Chinese Written Language opened its gate for public visitors, dispaying the evolution of Chinese writing over thousands of years mainly through the relics unearth from ancient bury sites.
So far the earliest tangible evidence of the Chinese written language was a series of signs carved on objects 8,000 years ago recently unerthed in Henan (河南漯河舞阳贾湖遗址). Prev: A Fair Play
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