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Use Hakka to read the Laozi Manuscript unearth 7 years ago in Guodian, Hubei



In this webpage, you can click the pictures of the bamboo strips and
hear the pronounciation of numerous modern Chinese languages,
including Hakka.

http://guodian.malandrin.org

The Tao Te Ching unearthed in Hubei province's Guodian town is the
earliest known Lao Tzu, believe to be bury around 300BC, when Mencius,
ZhuangZi and patriot poet QuYuan (Dragon boat festival) still walk the
earth.  Some archeologist believe the grave belong to a teacher of Chu
Kingdom's prince.

This archealogy discovery in 1993 reveal that there weren't so much
conflict between Taoism and Confucianism at their earliest stages, in
fact, they were very much alike.

You don't need to install Chinese system to visit this page, just
click the 3rd Chioce -- GIF version when you are there.

http://guodian.malandrin.org

When you click the characters on the bamboo strips, you can hear the
modern day Chinese languages pronounciations of each character.