Archaeologists in Xinjiang recently discovered the homework of children in ancient western regions in Turpan, more than 1200 years ago.
Xinhua News Agency reported that the unearthed cultural relic discovered by archaeologists in Xinjiang is a "fragment of Xizhou calligraphy in Tang Dynasty". This is an abandoned official document, behind which you can see the ink of writing and practicing calligraphy.
Archaeologists point out that this calligraphy practice book is very similar to the homework of contemporary primary school students: practice word by word and write each word three times. After studying the few Chinese characters and a name on the scraps of xizitie and searching the ancient books, it is found that this is a child in the western regions, holding a brush, copying the five-character poem "chanting fish" written by a poet named Cen Derun in the Southern Dynasty on an abandoned official document.
Zhu Yuqi, a professor at the College of Humanities of Xinjiang Normal University, pointed out that this is an ancient western region children's homework book with a history of more than 1200 years, indicating that the southern Chinese culture had spread in the Turpan Basin at that time. "Every ink mark on this document has profound value for the study of Turpan's cultural diversity and the pluralistic integration of Chinese civilization."
In addition, this paper with a history of 1200 years has also broken through the ancient Chinese saying that "paper lives for a thousand years". It is a miracle of ancient Chinese papermaking.