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Literary compositions in rhyme appear early in ancient Chinese, mostly to the beat of labor routines in everyday life. The ballads and proverbs in colloquial language were the “sounds of the nature”. Later some verses were deliberately composed and recorded, as in the following example from “Boyi and Houji” in The Book of Documents.
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Jiang, L., Ren, M. (2023). Tonal and Rhythmic Patterns. In: A General Theory of Ancient Chinese. Qizhen Humanities and Social Sciences Library. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6042-9_17
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