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King Cuo of Zhongshan
King Cuo was a ruler of the state of Zhongshan in present-day Hebei, China, in the late fourth century BCE, and the first of its rulers to take the title of king, in 323 BCE. His tomb near Pingshan, excavated in the 1970s, yielded bronze vessels with long inscriptions, inlaid winged beasts and a bronze plan of the royal cemetery, the oldest known architectural drawing in China.
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