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Chu Silk Manuscript
The Chu Silk Manuscript is a silk sheet with text and painted figures from a Warring States tomb at Zidanku in Changsha, Hunan, looted in 1942 and now held by the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington. The oldest known Chinese silk manuscript, it contains texts on cosmology, the creation of the world and the order of the seasons, surrounded by images of the spirits of the twelve months.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Chu Silk Manuscript. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/chu-silk-manuscript
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