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This document provides a new interpretation of Yao Charters, which are scrolls that present themselves as imperial edicts granting the Yao exemptions and legitimizing their origins. The author argues that the charters were likely composed by the Yao themselves based on oral mythology, rather than being actual imperial documents, as evidenced by clumsy language, narrative content unlike imperial documents, and inconsistencies. The author proposes that the charters be interpreted as statements about Yao ident
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- tito19593
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