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Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies
The Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies is a Chinese handscroll painting illustrating a moralising text written by Zhang Hua in 292 for women of the imperial court. Traditionally attributed to the Eastern Jin painter Gu Kaizhi, the surviving scroll in the British Museum is probably a copy made in the fifth or sixth century. It is among the oldest surviving Chinese handscrolls and a key work of early figure painting.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/admonitions-of-the-instructress-to-the-court-ladies
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