Title
Poems for Young Children with explanations (幼学诗句释) by Da Xin Shu Ju (大新书局)
Year/Period
Late Qing - early Republican period
Region
Hong Kong and Singapore
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 20.7 x 13.4 x 0.2 cm
Accession No.
2021-00324
Collection of
Such books with poems for young children originated from the Northern Song dynasty (960 – 1127), and usually consist of 34 poems, each with four five-character phrases.Printed in Hong Kong, this particular book has explanations in vernacular Chinese and interestingly advertised its use of movable typesets(活版) for printing instead of the usual woodblock print on its front cover.
