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"Imperial Exam Valedictorian" in Classical Chinese from PBS Documentary with Elderly Father

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I am fluent in Classical Chinese and have studied it for 20 years and saw this in a PBS documentary with my recuperating elderly father whom my family has been caring for the past 2 years. It's the BIRD and GENTLEMAN characters starting from the right.

It has a Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinshi

I will try to post about longer texts another day or week but this is what I have for now.

I am also an expert on all 20 or so historic foreign languages of China, especially Oracle Bone Script Chinese and Tangut, if anyone wants any help studying them. And among experts, I am rare in being competent in Anthropology and Linguistics and native fluent in English, among other amazing things.

Do not feel shy! Feel free to write me here or on my facebook profile! I seek online friends, too!

Hi all, I'm wondering if ctext[dot]org uses the Zhang Hou Lun version of the Analects compiled by Zhang Yu in the Han dynasty?

I found this https://ctext.org/notes, but can't find anything else. For the Analects they use the James Legge translation from the 19th century, so I'm also guessing that the Chinese version is the same as what James was translating off of, but maybe I'm wrong.

Thanks!