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I usually avoid Wikipedia because I am a bit doubtful of its reliability, and because it is open to the public, anyone can edit it's content. Anyhow, thank you for sharing. Learn something new everyday. Cheers!

I would like to add that learning how to write or having a formal education was reserved only for the elites and scholars in feudal Asia. Some may only have a few years of education or may pick up a few commonly used scripts through their life, just enough for everyday use, but not enough to...

Here is the reconstruction drawing of the map. You can use Google map to compare, but you will have flip this map upside in order to do so because the map is oriented with south to the top, It corresponds to parts of the modern provinces of Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi with 桃陽 (modern...

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Nice. Below is another map dated 1834 of Vietnam showing the same orientation as you have mentioned, but both maps are of later dates. I am wondering about the cardinal directions used during 2nd Century. Below is another map dated around 206BC to 9AD, excavated from the tomb site at...

Hello People, I just wanted to pick someone's brain here. Beside looking at historical literatures and documentations, has anyone looked at the cardinal directions of what was perceived as North and South during these ancient kingdoms of Qin, Nam Viet and Han? 2nd Century Han...