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Tianjin

Where the Xingqi jade is held.

The Tianjin Museum: a large curved modern building reflected in water.
The Tianjin Museum, which holds the twelve-sided jade carrying the Xingqi inscription — the oldest object in this archive. kele_jb1984 · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

The Tianjin Museum holds the twelve-sided jade block carrying the forty-five-character Xingqi inscription — the earliest physical object describing the circulation of breath, usually dated to the fourth century BCE.

An archive that rests so heavily on texts should be able to point at one thing that is an object, and this is it.

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