These specimens are all recent artwork; drawings of ancient Chinese language characters. It would be another thousand years before the characters painted here would evolve into what is the Chinese language.
The crescent shaped object in the second and seventh picture below looks like a crescent moon, and is in fact, the character for moon.
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