Genuine Book Cao E's Ci Volume, Anonymous, Eastern Jin Dynasty, Silk Edition, 32.3 cm long, 54.3 cm wide
Collection of Liaoning Provincial Museum
This volume of ink is an early masterpiece of small regular script handed down from generation to generation. The name of the author has been lost, but based on the style of the work itself and relevant documentation, it can be confirmed that it was a work before the Tang Dynasty.
The content of this volume is an edict written by Cao E, a filial daughter of Shangyu County in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The article was written in the second year of Nping (358) by Emperor Mu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The center of the book is in a flat square font, with a large number of inscriptions by people from the Jin and Tang Dynasties. At the back of the volume are inscriptions and postscripts by Song Gaozong Zhao Gou, Yuan Yu Ji, Zhao Mengfu, Qiao Jiacheng and others. In the past, there were the Xiaoliang Neifu of the Southern Dynasty, Jia Sidao of the Southern Song Dynasty, Guo Tianxi and Ke Jiusi of the Yuan Dynasty, Shineng and Wang Xijue of Han Han of the Ming Dynasty, Shimin of the Qing Dynasty, and the Neifu of the Qing Dynasty.
