Famous Literature

During the Han period writers produced history books and dictionaries.

The Japanese came into contact with Chinese culture during the Chinese Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), and they began to write their own language in the 5th century AD, basing their writing system on the Chinese model.

This is an ink rubbing of a li-shu inscription on the stele of Shih Ch'en, AD 169, Han dynasty; in the collection of Wan-go H.C. Weng, New York.

"The Han dynasty reversed many of the policies of its short-lived predecessor. The most important change was a shift from legalism to Confucianism. The banned books were now highly regarded, and the classics became the core of education.

The Han dynasty was a period of territorial expansion and growth in trade and cultural relations. Buddhism was introduced at this time. (Chinese: "draft script," or "grass script"), in Chinese calligraphy, a cursive variant of the standard Chinese scripts li-shu and k'ai-shu and their semicursive derivative hsing-shu.

 

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