  ChatGPT's proficiency in handling modern standard languages suggests
potential for its use in understanding ancient Chinese. This paper explores
ChatGPT's capabilities on ancient Chinese via two tasks: translating ancient
Chinese to modern Chinese and recognizing ancient Chinese names. A comparison
of ChatGPT's output with human translations serves to evaluate its
comprehension of ancient Chinese. The findings indicate that: (1.)the
proficiency of ancient Chinese by ChatGPT is yet to reach a satisfactory level;
(2.) ChatGPT performs the best on ancient-to-modern translation when feeding
with three context sentences. To help reproduce our work, we display the python
code snippets used in this study.
