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   7 - The dynasty next to the Yin was the Zhou dynasty." In the Zhou dynasty, people made
   many bronze vessels,weapons, musical instruments and so on.
   This is the most famous vessel. These characters are inside the vessel.
   This character (pointing) is "a person" in profile (in a side view).

   8 - I wrote these characters on the model of the characters inside the bronze vessel.
   


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   9 - In 1973, the characters on the cloth of silk were discovered.They were the oldest handwriting
   in the Eastern Zhou dynasty.

   10 - I wrote these characters on the model of the oldest handwriting.
   


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   11 - In the Eastern Zhou dynasty, people carved the characters directly on the stone.

   12 - I wrote these characters on the model of the characters on the old stone.

   
  
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   13 - The dynasty next to the Zhou was the Qin
   dynasty in 220 BC. The Emperor of this dynasty
   is very famous for building the long and strong wall.
   He made iron measure on which official documents were
   written.



   

          
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   14 - These were the characters on the pieces of bamboo in the Qin dynasty.

   15 - I wrote these characters on the model of the handwriting on the bamboo.
   You can see another style of the characters, "person" and "woman" here.
   Please remember the characters on the bronze vessel.