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Can You See the Writing on the Chop?
The Shanghai Museum has several levels of exhibits of relics from centuries past. I could probably say that most of these relics are pretty normal to me. Everyone one knows that porcelain came from China, they naturally also have bronze working even from before. However, the next exhibit was a bit more unique. It was an exhibit on chops, the kind to make a document official. The Chinese are ardent users of chops especially high officials as they try to impress the other with the beauty of their official chops.
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