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Table of Contents
Post 1:Intro
Post 2:Rules
Post 3: Students
Post 4: First Lesson
Post 5: Assignments

Lesson 1
The first lesson today. You will learn these words:
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One, two, three, four, and five.

I will be using artpad from now on. Please watch carefully how I do each stroke. If you don't do it in the right order, it won't look as good.

Here is how to pronouce them:
Coming soon! sweatdrop

Culture Lesson:
Learning About Ancient Coins

After Qinshihuang, or First Emperor of Qin, conquered other states and established the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC), his first move was to reform the monetary system. Currencies that had been used in former states such as knife and spade-shaped coins and shells were abolished. The currency of the former state of Qin became the national legal tender. It was round in shape, with a square hole in the center. The shape originated from the Chinese belief that heaven was round and the earth was square. Two characters engraved on the coin, ban (half) liang (one liang=1/32 kilo), indicated the weight of the coin. After this shape was adopted, it remained in use until the Qing Dynasty was overthrown in 1911. Since few ancient coins bear engraved patterns, it is very hard to tell their origin by appearance and materials used. However, the inscriptions on them have provided best testimony on their origin.

The history of monetary scripts in China is as long as that of the Chinese written language. Metal coins minted in the Shang and Zhou dynasties more than 3,000 years ago bore characters that look like jiaguwen, or inscriptions on oracle bones.

The functions of the monetary scripts varied in different historic periods. But they were common in the following aspects: They were used to indicate the name, weight, value, and the imperial reign of mintage.

Because of the importance of the inscriptions, different dynasties paid great attention to their wording and calligraphy. Decisions were usually made by the emperor himself. Many monetary inscriptions were done by emperor himself, or written by famous calligraphers of the time

Just so you know, the test will be about what you learned every day in this section, so I hope you are taking notes or something. ^^

Table of Contents
Post 1:Intro
Post 2: Rules
Post 3: Students
Post 4: First Lesson
Post 5: Assignments