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The Star Gauge (Chinese: 璇璣圖; pinyin: xuán jī tú), or translated as "the armillary sphere chart", is the posthumous title given to a 4th-century Chinese poem written by the Sixteen Kingdoms poet Su Hui for her husband. It consists of a 29 by 29 grid of characters, forming a reversible poem that can be read in different ways to form roughly 3,000 smaller rhyming poems.[1] The outer border forms a single circular poem, thought to be both the first and the longest of its kind. The Star Gauge consists of 841 characters in a grid. The original was described by contemporary sources as shuttle-woven on brocade. It was composed by Su Hui during a time when East Asian Mādhyamaka was one of the predominant philosophical schools in the area.[2] The outer border is meant to be read in a circle. The grid is known as a palindrome poem, and can be read in different ways to generate over 3,000 shorter poems, in which the second line of every couplet rhymes with that of the next.[1] The largest set of

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Star Gauge Traditional Chinese璇璣圖 Simplified Chinese璇玑图 Literal meaningChart of the Armillary Sphere Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu PinyinXuánjī Tú Wu Romanizationzi2 ci1 du2 Yue: Cantonese Jyutpingsyun4 gei1 tou4 Middle Chinese Middle Chinesezjwen kj+j du Portrait of Lady Su Hui next to the poem The Star Gauge (Chinese: 璇璣圖; pinyin: Xuánjī Tú), or translated as "the armillary sphere chart", is the posthumous title given to a 4th-century Classical Chinese poem written by the Former Qin poet Su Hui for her husband during the Sixteen…

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