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• Chinese Culture – Qingming Festival by the Riverside(3)

  
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  Qingming Festival by the Riverside (right) There are over 550 human figures, some 60 animals, 20 wooden boats, 30 rooms and pavilions , and about 20 vehicles of various kinds in the Qingming Festival by the Riverside . Few ancient pictures have such rich content. What is more, all the figures and detailed ...
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• The History Of Chinese Tattoo Symbols

  
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  Western world has discovered a novel interest in Chinese tattoo symbols though they have no idea about their meaning. Chinese tattoos are so appealing that they have stood the passage of time and still remain hugely popular.
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• Chinese Culture – Qingming Festival by the Riverside(2)

  
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  Qingming Festival by the Riverside (middle) In the suburban scene, farmers are working in the fields and wealthy people are returning from mourning their ancestors. The street is crowded with people on horseback, wheel carts and sedan chairs . The scene of the Bian River is the most magnificent part of the ...
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• Chinese Culture – Qingming Festival by the Riverside(1)

  
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  Many ancient Chinese paintings contain the seals and signatures of both the painter and the collector. There is one famous Chinese painting, the Qingming Festival by the Riverside , which is covered with innumerable signatures and seals, indicating it had been in the hands of many private and official ...
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• Chinese Culture – The Four Great Painters of the Yuan Dynasty(7)

  
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  Seclusion in Qingbian by Wang Meng Wang Meng was a native of Huzhou who lived from the late Yuan (1279-1368) to the early Ming (1368-1644) Dynasty. He served in the Tai’an government in the early Ming Dynasty , was implicated and put into prison, and eventually died behind the bars. He learned painting ...
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• Chinese Culture – The Four Great Painters of the Yuan Dynasty(5)

  
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  Ni Zan, a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, was born into a wealthy family. He left his home after Zhu Yuanzhang ’s uprising, abandoned his fields and home, obtained a small boat, and spent his life on lakes and rivers. Most of his paintings are about the scenes and sights of the Pinghu Lake. He was good at ...
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• Chinese Culture – The Four Great Painters of the Yuan Dynasty(4)

  
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  As Huang got older, he buried himself in the natural world to experience the essence of life and formed his own pure and natural artistic style. His most representative work is Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountain . He spent seven years completing this 396.6cm long and 33cm high picture, which contained the most ...
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• Don’t Assume China Mimics US-Style Social Media

  
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• Chinese Culture – The Four Great Painters of the Yuan Dynasty(3)

  
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  Like the flowers and bird paintings and figure paintings of the period, the mountains and water paintings of the Song Dynasty were very realistic. The Yuan Dynasty painters later developed landscape painting from this basis. Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountain by Huang Gongwang Huang Gongwang ...
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• Chinese Culture – The Four Great Painters of the Yuan Dynasty(2)

  
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  The new painting form developed to a more mature stage in the Tang Dynasty, and several famous landscape painters appeared. They include the Li Sixun family, who specialized in green mountain and river painting, and Wei Yan and Zhang Zao, who excelled in splashed-ink landscapes. By Fan Kuan of Song Dynasty ...
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• Chinese Culture – The Four Great Painters of the Yuan Dynasty(1)

  
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  In Chinese painting history, painters of the same period or region are sometimes mentioned together. An example is the Four Great Painters of the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368). The four are Huang Gongwang , Ni Zan, Wu Zhen and Wang Meng, who were all excellent painters of mountains and water scenes. ...
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• China trips

  
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  Instant negotiation mode:  Anyone who has been a parent can recognize that.  It’s when the child asks for something, and you give an answer that isn’t what that child wants, and the child immediately starts pushing the boundary back.  It’s how “maybe” or “I’ll think about it” gets magically ...
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• Chinese Culture – The Wumen Painting School(7)

  
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  Qiu Ying was a native of Taicang, Jiangsu Province . His green-color landscape paintings, such as the Jian Pavilion , are marked by vigorous strokes and bright colors. His figure paintings, meticulously executed, are bright in color, accurate in portrayal, and vivid in expression. By Qiu Ying He also ...
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• Chinese Culture – The Wumen Painting School(6)

  
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  By Tang Yin His paintings on folklore themes reveal the rich flavor of life, and his brushstrokes are fluid, vigorous and elegant. He inherited old traditions but created his own style. He left many works: the most famous ones are Soughing Pines on a Mountain Path , Playing a Stringed Instrument , Court Lady ...
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• Influence Of New Year Symbols On Chinese Society

  
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  The Chinese culture has a lot to do with the phenomenon of symbolism. The event of Chinese New Year is one of the numerous aspects of the Chinese culture that is involved in the process of symbolism.
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• Chinese Culture – The Wumen Painting School(5)

  
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  Tang Yin was a native of Wu County and a student of Shen Zhou. He was accomplished in poetry, prose and calligraphy , and excelled especially in painting. He had an un-restrained personality, experienced many hardships in life and was poor and frustrated in his later years. Soughing Pines on a ...
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• Chinese Culture – The Wumen Painting School(4)

  
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  By Wen Zhengming Wen’s works can be divided into two types: bold black ink landscape paintings, such as Mountain Rain and Old Trees By A Cold Stream ; and refined and elegant green landscape paintings in a meticulous style, such as Innumerable Mountains and Valleys . He lived for more than 90 years, and ...
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• Happy Burn-Things-in-the-Road-to-Your-Ancestors Day

  
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  Last night was “send cold clothes” (送寒衣 sòng hán yī ), the day in the lunar calendar when millions of Chinese go out to the intersections to send burnt offerings to their ancestors. Here’s the sidewalk outside our apartment complex this morning: Drawing circles around the pile is part of the ...
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• Chinese Culture – The Wumen Painting School(3)

  
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  Old Trees By A Cold Stream by Wen Zhengming Wen Zhengming was also a native of Changzhou. He was a student of Shen Zhou, so he obtained a solid grounding in painting and mastered good brushstroke techniques. He led a comfortable life as a scholar-official, and as a result he failed to develop a wide perspective ...
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• Chinese Culture – The Wumen Painting School(2)

  
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  Shen Zhou (1427-1509) was a native of C hangzhou . He was born into a wealthy intellectual family and developed a generous character. He received a good education and was proficient at writing poems and prose. He drew many small paintings before the age of 40, but in his later years switched to big landscape ...
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