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South China Morning Post
Chinese man discovers family dining table is ancestor’s Qing dynasty academic record
A man in eastern China was stunned to discover that his family’s battered dining table was in fact a Qing dynasty (1644–1912) honour board commemorating an ancestor’s success in the imperial examinations. Xu, a villager in Anhui province, shared the unusual story in an online video on July 12, which subsequently went viral on mainland social media. The footage shows a dark-red wooden table scarred by decades of use, with cracked edges and a faded surface. Yet two carved Chinese characters –...
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