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Oracle bone script is China’s earliest mature writing, carved into turtle shells 3,300 years ago — and it was not found by archaeologists, but by a malaria patient in a medicine shop. Every character is a picture. It never died: today’s Chinese characters are its descendants.
Once a year, magpies bridge the Milky Way so two star-crossed lovers can meet. Qixi is China’s original love story — 2,000 years old, older than Valentine’s Day, and still celebrated on the seventh night of the seventh moon.