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Archaic vessels emerge and disappear over time.
If I do not document them on paper, how can
scholars in the future study them?
Emperor Qianlong
古器顯晦有時及今不為之表章載之簡牘考索
者其奚取徵焉 ？
乾隆皇帝
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