In the News: 3,900-meter calligraphic work applies for Guiness record
The families of a late Chinese calligrapher, who wrote a 3,900-meter-long Chinese calligraphic work, are applying to list the work in the Guiness Book of Records.

Dai Tianpei, the calligrapher, who was born in 1930 and died in October 2003, spent five years finishing the lengthy piece of collected works of poems of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), when ancient Chinese classic poetry reached its culmination.

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a panooleyan to'y amin a segsegang

dia'd pakapanyari'y sagur-seslekan
no iner anggapo'y sambe'y kagustuan

dia'd pakapanyari'y baybay-amianan
no iner makakaimis so palar ko
ed kada agew na taon

dia'd pakapanyari'y abalaten
no iner amin a pilalek ko
nagamoran a bengat la!

say sansinakub malikeliket

anapen ko'y bilay ya araoi
ed marumsis iran kanonotan

saray kimey tan aoaoey ko kamaongan

saray kakanen ya isubok
para'd laman tan kamaleroa

saray kaliktan ko maabig

ag ko piogagep so onugaw ono ontakken
pinabangan ko no anto'y oala ed sayan ora

napno ak na panangasi'd intiron mundo

ag ko ilaloa'y salat ono bales
ed panangaron inter ko

piraoat ko'y pankanawnaoa
biskeg tan kumpiansa

tan saray sagiat na nonot tan kioas
danasen to'y bilay ko

amin a demeten ko
magmaliw a kayamanan

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