Star Gauge
The ''Star Gauge'' ( zh, c= 璇璣圖, p='' xuán jī tú''), or translated as "the armillary sphere chart", is the posthumous title given to a 4th-century Chinese language, Chinese poem written by the Sixteen Kingdoms poet Su Hui (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. The outer border forms a single circular poem, thought to be both the first and the longest of its kind. Description 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 (poet), Su Hui during a time when East Asian Mādhyamaka was one of the predominant philosophical schools in the area. 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 secon ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]