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<p><b>Old Chinese</b>, also called <b>Archaic Chinese</b> in older works, is the oldest attested stage of <a href="page.php?w=Chinese_language">Chinese</a>, and the ancestor of all modern <a href="page.php?w=varieties_of_Chinese">varieties of Chinese</a>. The earliest examples of Chinese are divinatory inscriptions on <a href="page.php?w=oracle_bone">oracle bone</a>s from around 1250&nbsp;BC, in the <a href="page.php?w=Late_Shang">Late Shang</a> period. <a href="page.php?w=Chinese_bronze_inscriptions">Bronze inscriptions</a> became plentiful during</p><p>
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