Chapter 134: An Actor's Self-Cultivation

Li Zhitong stepped up to the character grid.

"This is the Xuanji Diagram, created by the talented poet Su Hui of the Former Qin dynasty. The grid contains a total of eight hundred and forty-one characters, measuring twenty-nine characters across and twenty-nine down."

"Whether read vertically, horizontally, diagonally, or in alternating patterns—forwards, backwards, skipping a character, or overlapping one—each path forms a poem. These poems vary in length from three to seven characters per line. Its complexity and versatility make it the Morse Code of the literary world."

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