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China's literacy traditions date back over 3,000 years! The Book of Odes was the earliest known major literacy. It was a collection of poems from the Shang and Chou dynasties.
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This dynasty included some of the finest poems in all of China's literature. Many of these famous poems were written by and during Li Po and Tu Fu.
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Prose is written or spoken language in it's ordinary form without metrical structure. Prose had a very strong influence on how literature was written.
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During the Han dynasty, paper was invented. Paper has helped to preserve and document all of history's literature and more literature that has yet to come.
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Woodblock printing is a form of writing. It is a technique for printing text, image, or patterns.Woodblock printing originate in China and was revolutionary to literature,
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Movable type is a system of printing and typography that uses movable parts to reproduce a document. This is usually on the medium of paper.
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When paper was created, it opened up many new possibilities. Calligraphy is decorative handwriting. Calligraphers practiced for years in order to master the art of calligraphy.
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Vernacular fiction novels were written in during the Ming Dynasty. Vernacular literature is literature that is written for the common people. It is written for everyone to understand.
