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The Chu or Chu script is a writing system used in the state of Chu during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods . The script was one of the different ancient writing systems used by various countries in China prior to the unification of the world by Emperor Qin Shi Huang and the implementation of the policy of writing in the same language . It is also known as the “Chu System of Simplified Palm Script” because most of the excavated texts are on silk (Bamboo and wooden slips, wood, and palindromes).

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The Chu script was one of the six scripts used by the six Shandong states (Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Wei, and Zhao), and was widely used during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods of ancient China, but was banned after the Qin state annexed the six states and standardized the scripts, and then its use was drastically reduced and ultimately died out .

Since the 1950s, there have been a number of artifacts written in pre-Qin and early Qin-Han scripts on silk and silk unearthed in various places, including the “Wulipai Bamboo Kan” from the Chu Tomb in Changsha, the “Wangshan Bamboo Kan” from the Wangshan Chu Tomb in Jiangling, the “Xinyang Bamboo Kan” from the Chu Tomb at Changtaiguan in Xinyang, Henan, the Palm Script unearthed from the Han Tomb of Mawangdui in 1973, and the “Yumeng Nyinghudi Qin Kan” unearthed from the Qin Tomb in 1975 . The scripts in these texts are in the process of transition between seal script and clerical script . Therefore, it is extremely difficult to interpret them accurately .

One of the difficult examples is the character “虎”, whose script is difficult to be imaginatively associated with the concept of “虎”, and which actually means “吾” in a particular context , both in terms of the change in the character form and the fact that the character is written in the first person “吾”, which is the same as the character “” in the first person . Both the changes in the character form and the way the character “tiger” is written as the first person “吾” indicate that the ancient scripts were used very differently from today. At the same time, scripts and usages similar to today's are not uncommon, and the Shaanxi Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics describes on its official website the similarities and differences in the relationship between the Chu script “馬” which is much the same as the modern script “馬”.

The unearthed jianfu are presumed to record a number of texts and books that were lost in the ancient period, and deciphering and research is ongoing.

see also

Palindromes

Mawangdui Han Tomb - Han tombs excavated after 1972 whose artifacts are exhibited in the same museum.

bibliography

1. 古老文字——楚国竹简墨迹, Ancient Script - Ink on Bamboo Slips from the State of Chu. "https://www.sohu.com/a/194027274_731877". www.sohu.com. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= requires |archive-url= (help); External link in |title= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)